The Altona Treatment Plant of Greater Western Water is a small sewage treatment plant in Altona, Victoria, approximately 16 km west of Melbourne, Australia.
Located on Queen Street between Laverton Creek and Altona Meadows, it services over 20,000 residential and business properties in the Altona, Altona Meadows, Laverton and Point Cook areas and treats close to 13 million litres of sewage a day.
[2] When City West Water was established in 1995 a review of the entire City West Water network, including the Altona Sewage Treatment Plant, was undertaken.
Instead of releasing millions of litres of treated effluent into Port Phillip Bay, most of the water is now captured, treated and then used in manufacturing processes and the irrigation of recreational spaces for the community.
[1] About 2 billion litres of recycled water is supplied annually to the plastics manufacturer Qenos[3] for use in their boilers and cooling towers, as well as: The volume of high quality water produced each year is roughly equivalent to the volume of water held by 1000 Olympic sized swimming pools.