Yunta

Upgrades to the Yunta water network have now been completed, with our local customers receiving safe and clean drinking water to their taps for the first time.

Our customer’s drinking water comes from the River Murray, where it is filtered and treated at our Morgan Water Treatment Plant and pumped through the Morgan Whyalla pipeline to Peterborough. It is then transported by a dedicated drinking water tanker to Yunta’s water storage tanks.

The network upgrades included:

• Construction of a new, 114 kilolitre-capacity water storage tank.
• Creating a new access road to the nearby vehicle road stop, and additional road resurfacing to the Barrier Highway.
• Constructing a new disinfection system to ensure a safe supply of drinking water throughout the water network.
• Upgrades to the town’s existing water network, including new pipe fittings and valves.
• Twice weekly water carting from Peterborough.

As an additional measure, we are preserving the existing water tower in its original location as it is a much-loved landmark. The old tank was decommissioned and made safe during our works.