Murchison’s main water supply has been made more secure with the replacement of the town’s main supply pipe last month.
The job, which was done by Downer Utilities who used Donaldson Civil Ltd as their subcontractor, included the replacement of a 50-year-old 340-metre-long 150-millimetre-diameter asbestos cement pipeline.
A new polyethylene pipe has been put in as a replacement.
This is the only water supply pipeline between Murchison Reservoir and the town network so it’s critical to the town’s infrastructure.
Parts of the old water main were laid beneath a farm track but weren’t very deep and were at risk of being damaged by heavy vehicles using the track.
The $160,000 project has significantly increased the resilience of the water supply to the entire Murchison township.