Solutions in Water

Issue No. 45 - Feb/March 2009

Osmoflo mine waste wins

Desalination specialist Osmoflo has won two major contracts to design and build new desalination plants at Xstrata’s Ulan Coal mine near Mudgee, NSW, and Santos’ Pony Hills Coal Seam Gas methane operation near Roma in Queensland.

The Ulan plant, commissioned in January, is the second Osmoflo has engineered for the site. The existing plant cleans mine discharge water and a pre-treatment microfiltration plant is being added. This plant is critical to viable underground coal mining enabling extraction a large volume of water.

The plant cuts Xstrata operating costs and puts treated water back into the local creek system, with some used for onsite irrigation.

The Great Dividing Range region has been subject to prolonged drought and treated water flowing into nearby streams - which locals say have not flowed for many years - is helping to replenish fish stocks and native flora and fauna.

“We have developed a good relationship with Xstrata and work together to...

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