Tamworth Regional Council's water and environmental operations manager Dan Coe explains how water is treated at the Calala plant.
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00:00 The water treatment plant we can treat 68 megalitres per day.
00:03 I was saying to the guys earlier last week we used around about 40 megalitres of water through Tamworth
00:08 because it's hot and dry the last couple of weeks, so that's been about as much as we've used for this summer period.
00:14 Our main water source is from Chaffey Dam or the Peel River, so that's where we get the bulk of our water supply.
00:20 The second main supply is Dungowin Dam.
00:26 As the water goes out there's basically a pump that sends it up into this kitchen, if it looks like for you.
00:32 All these instruments are like the treated water test.
00:35 So then basically the guys, we've got three taps over there, there's the raw water and the treated water,
00:40 so they then test that throughout the day.
00:42 That's for sending water out to Victoria Park site and then this is South Tamworth,
00:48 so we've got a number of reservoirs all around town.
00:51 So this is the end, this is what we're sending out and how we pump it out to the town.
00:54 This is the end, but that's essentially the treated water that we're sending out to town.
00:58 It constantly runs.
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