The Lockyer Valley region, regarded as Australia’s “salad bowl”, plans to supercharge its agricultural and horticultural industries by resurrecting the state’s mothballed recycled water plant and using a 300km network of pipelines connected to south-east Queensland’s existing water grid.

However, that has not stopped Lockyer Valley Regional Council and neighbouring Somerset Regional Council from pursuing their pipeline project, which they say has the potential to create another 2000 agricultural jobs and boost agricultural production by $210 million a year.
The Lockyer Valley has the most diverse range of commercially grown fruit and vegetables in Australia but repeated and prolonged droughts have left the region overly reliant on groundwater. The pipeline scheme would link the Wivenhoe with existing irrigation dams in the valley and provide more security of supply.





Recycled water back in the pipeline in new push for Wivenhoe water grid (inqld.com.au)