Eastern Treatment Plant

UGL provided engineering design, procurement and construction(EPC), commission, operation and maintenance (O&M) to Melbourne Water for the Eastern Treatment Plant (ETP) upgrade.

The Eastern Treatment Plant previously supplied about 22 billion litres of ‘Class C’ recycled water per year. Melbourne Water required an upgrade that improved the quality of recycled water to ‘Class A’, which could then be used for wider applications such as watering sports grounds, toilet flushing and irrigating vegetables.

The Project objectives were to:

• upgrade the ETP to include advanced tertiary treatment that significantly improves the quality of water discharged, thus addressing the impacts in the marine environment
• enable the production of a high quality recycled water product that is fit for purpose
• achieve completion and commissioning

UGL and its alliance partners were responsible for building seven new structures over approximately six hectares of land within the existing Eastern Treatment Plant boundary. In this alliance, UGL provided a range of services including:

• alliance management
• financial and administrative management
• management of establishment target costs
• process design reviews as well as detail design and detail design review
• procurement services
• contract administration
• quality assurance and control services
• safety management
• construction management and supervision
• commissioning
• process control