Post Conference Technical Tour Thursday 4 August 2011

Many metropolitan and rural South Australians depend upon waste stabilisation ponds for their sewage treatment.

Tour 1: Bolivar Wastewater Treatment Plant
Time: 0900 - 1300
Cost: $50 - Limited to 40 delegates
Dress: Casual/comfortable, closed toe shoes

Visit the 150ML/d Bolivar wastewater treatment plant to the north of Adelaide. The plant incorporates an activated sludge plant, 350 ha of lagoons and dissolved air flotation-filtration into its wastewater and reuse treatment scheme. Separated solids are anaerobically digested and the methane used for onsite electricity generation.


Tour 2: Adelaide Hills and the Barossa Valley
Time: 0900 - 1700
Cost: $60 - Limited to 40 delegates
Dress: Casual/comfortable, closed toe shoes

Tour 2 will visit the smaller community wastewater management schemes which receive wastewater from domestic on-site septic tanks into community managed central lagoons. The tour will visit sites were the treated effluent is used for irrigation of horticultural crops and grape vines in the wine growing regions in the Adelaide Hills and the Barossa Valley. The tour will include lunch in the Barossa Valley and time to sample the produce!
The tour routes will enable participants to be dropped off at the airport on return to Adelaide.