ERA Water

The Waterproofing Eastern Adelaide project is a long term regional project designed to provide an alternative water source to SA Water’s portable water system to water reserves, parks and playing ovals on the eastern side of Adelaide for the benefit of local Councils and their communities.

Waterproofing Eastern Adelaide is being delivered by the Eastern Region Alliance Water (ERA Water) on behalf the Town of Walkerville, City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters and the City of Burnside. These councils have been directly involved in the planning and delivery of the project. The Waterproofing Eastern Adelaide project is supported through funding from the Australian Government’s National Urban Water and Desalination Plan, and the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board, which assisted the Councils in the initial stages and continues to be an integral contributor of the three councils

The project involves the establishment of wetlands, aquifer recharge and recovery, pipeline installations and water storage facilities. The project harvests stormwater and cleans the stormwater through wetlands and biofilters and UV light treatment and injects the cleaned stormwater into aquifers from which Councils can withdraw water in summer to irrigate Council parks and reserves.

Having access to this harvested stormwater helps ensure greener neighbourhoods which provide improved amenity as well as liveability, health and wellbeing benefits.

The treatment, storage and pumping sites in the scheme include:

• Felixstow Reserve: Wetland (Norwood Payneham & St Peters)
• Marden Lower Portrush Road Reserve: Treatment Site / pump station (Norwood Payneham & St Peters)
• Drage Reserve: Pump station (Norwood Payneham & St Peters)
• Tranmere – Shakespeare Ave: Pump station (Campbelltown)
• Langman Reserve: Pump station (Burnside)

Find out more about the projects that ERA Water are currently undertaking on the ERA Water website.