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34 Business View Australia - January-February 2016
PUBLIC WORKS &
solution to this problem.
The $22 million project will not only
solve the flooding issue, it will save
about 476 megalitres of water a year
at the nearby Nyrstar Hobart Smelter
and Moonah Primary School. This will
be achieved by harvesting and treating
the stormwater that usually plagues
the Brooker Highway. Stage 1 of the
project is already complete and Stage
2 is nearing completion with only about
30% of the work remaining to be done.
The project is the first of its kind in
Tasmania and one of the largest in
Australia.
Some of the other projects that Coun-
cil has taken up are:
Replacement of street
lights with energy efficient
lights
This project was carried out along
with Hobart City Council. General Man-
ager Peter Brooks outlined some of
the benefits of the project: “The Pro-
ject took up the replacement of old
streetlights. We received funding of
$3.4 million in conjunction with Hobart
City Council to undertake this energy
saving innovation.
“Called The Accelerated Energy Effi-
cient Street Light Roll Out project, the
positive news is that not only does it
have a really good environmental out-
come from a greenhouse gas point of
view, but there are also ongoing oper-