PENGUIN HEAD OUTFALL

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Future Developments

The Shoalhaven City Council’s Northern Regional Effluent Management Scheme or REMS is currently investigating strategies for the management of effluent from sewerage schemes in the Nowra – Jervis Bay region. This involved an investigation into:

- maximization of land application of effluent from Nowra, Bomaderry, St Georges Basin and Huskisson STPs with excess effluent released to the Shoalhaven River via a constructed wetland to be located at Terara (MHL735 1995, MHL746 1996, Patterson, Britton & Partners 1995).

- the release of excess effluent to the ocean - ocean release via the existing Penguin Head outfall is the preferred option

- Culburra STP effluent will be disinfected in future to comply with bathing water standards.

- prior to the implementation of REMS an STP is proposed to be built for the presently unsewered communities of Callala Bay, Callala Beach and Myola, with the treated effluent directed to the existing Penguin Head shore-based release.

- REMS involves upgrading the existing nearshore ocean release at Penguin Head to cater for excess effluent flows from the Culburra, St Georges Basin, Huskisson and the proposed Callala STPs.

- subject to hydraulic capacity constraints and receiving water quality criteria, it may be necessary to provide an offshore ocean release at Penguin Head, either for future Culburra STP flows or for additional effluent from REMS.

Penguin Head

(Peng_4) Last updated June 2000