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About Barwon Water
Barwon Water (Barwon Region Water Corporation) is Victoria's largest regional urban water corporation.
We provide world class water, recycled water and sewerage services.
West Barwon Reservoir, in the Otway Ranges, is one of the region's main catchments.
Region
Barwon Water's head office is in Geelong, Victoria (Australia). We have customer service offices in Geelong, Colac, and Lorne.
Our area of responsibility stretches from Little River and the Bellarine Peninsula in the east, to Colac in the west, and from Meredith and Cressy in the north, to Apollo Bay on Victoria's south-west coast.
Our service area is approximately 8100 square kilometres.
Customers
We provide services to more than 280,000 permanent residents. Over the summer holiday period, our serviced population can reach 510,000 people.
Our customers are 92% residential and 8% commercial or industrial. Around 35% of consumption is attributed to business customers.
Assets
We manage over $1.2 billion in assets, including:
- 10 major reservoirs
- 11 water treatment plants
- 9 water reclamation plants
- 13 groundwater bores
- 213 pumping stations
- 39 local water storages
- more than 5700 kilometres of pipes.
Water sources
Our water is sourced mainly from catchments on the upper Barwon and Moorabool rivers, and from underground aquifers deep below the Otway foothills.
Employer of choice
As local employer of choice, we employ more than 400 operational, engineering, strategic planning, financial and administrative staff.
Building for the future
Over the coming years, we will continue an unprecedented program of capital works focusing on water, sewerage and water recycling infrastructure.
This is the most ambitious capital works program in our history and will ensure safe, reliable and sustainable water to meet future development.
History
Barwon Water was constituted in February 1994, but our history dates back more than 100 years, to the establishment of the Geelong Municipal Waterworks Trust in 1908.
Corporate governance
Barwon Water is a statutory body under the Water Act.
We have an 8-member Board of Directors, and operate under a Statement of Obligations issued by the Minister for Water.
Our mission, promise and Strategic Intent provide a framework for our journey to become a high performance organisation.
Corporate information: Our misson, values and Strategic Intent
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