St Arnaud water supply
Current water restrictions
Safe to drink?
Yes
The water is safe for drinking. It is filtered and disinfected to meet the strict guidelines for safe drinking water. It can be used for drinking, cooking, making ice, cleaning your teeth and for showering or bathing.
Drinking water treatment
Treatment process
Coagulation, flocculation, dissolved air flotation, filtration, disinfection, pH correction.
Chemicals used in the process
Caustic soda, aluminium chlorohydrate, chlorine.
Water quality
We test the water quality regularly.
Statement of Water Quality for food businesses, if required.
Water supply
Your water comes from the Grampians Headworks Storages. The "headworks" is the area in and around the Grampians ranges and Wimmera River. It includes 11 reservoirs and diversion weirs and the streams and channels connecting them.
GWMWater maintains the infrastructure of the headworks, while the independent Storage Manager manages the water resources.
Your water is piped to you through the Wimmera Mallee Pipeline (Supply System 4). The Wimmera Mallee Pipeline replaced 17,500 km of inefficient channels to ensure a more secure and healthy water supply for the region. It supplies water to approximately 9,000 farms and 34 townships.
Sewerage services
Yes - Gravity Sewer System