FORSTER OUTFALL

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General Description

Sewerage Catchment:

• The Forster outfall services Forster STP.

Sewage Treatment:  

• IEAAS process together with a balance pond and facilities for disinfection by UV irradiation (installed June 1997).

Outfall:

• The outfall was constructed in 1980 (Manidis Roberts 1993) at Janies Corner/Shark Point, a rocky point at the northern end of Seven Mile Beach. The pipeline was trenched through the rock shelf and covered with small boulders set into concrete. The pipeline discharges on the northern side of the headland approximately 50m from the end of the point and within the surf zone of a small pocket beach (Shark Beach).

Outfall Site

Forster

(Fost_2) Last updated May 2000