Our Water
Fast Facts
Did You Know?
- Burnie's water and sewerage assets are worth $173 million replacement cost
- Current Written Down Value is $94.7 million
- 33% of Council's rate income ($7.2 million) comes from water, sewerage, stormwater and catchment management (Integrated Services)
- Most ratepayers pay $575 for Integrated Services - one of the lowest levels in the State. This is broken down into Water $207, Sewerage $253, Stormwater $107 and catchment management $8
- Burnie's new Waste Water (Sewerage) Treatment Plant is Council's single biggest infrastructure project ever at $16 million
- Burnie City Council fully complies with all environmental standards for water and sewerage
- Burnie has never had a boil water alert
- Burnie has never had water restrictions
- Burnie has not had any help from State or Commonwealth, unlike Cradle Coast Water and others
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