Dodemaide Circuit Water Pump Station Upgrade

Bacchus Marsh, Vic

Project Duration

October 2023 to March 2024

Client

Greater Western Water

Project Value

$ 1.6m

Spread across 3 separate sites: Dodemaide Circuit Water Pump Station, Bences Road Tanks and Lerderderg Pump Station, works included the design and construction of 180 poly pipe, 2x 30kl poly tanks and a booster pump station, plus the decommissioning and demoliton of the Lerderderg Pump Station once the other faciities were up and running.

key challenges

Getting the approval of the Cultural Heritage Management Plan which delays works being continued from Package 1 to Package 2 due to Cultural Heritage artefact identification which will affect panned
construction methodology
Strict conditions under the per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) management plan
Communication with LXRA, Victrack and Metro trains due to crossing an under construction train station in Pakenham
Crossings under the BassGas pipeline and Dandenong to Morewell Gas Main

Value for money

To meet land requirements and large depths of shafts, SEW and ZJW reached a design and planning solution resulting in continuation of the project in a safe manner, including:

Ground conditions, methodologies and environment testing were all part of the required assessments and GRP was proposed to reduce project cost and labour hours
Use of HDD and micro tunnelling for road rail and crossings, saving time and project costs
Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) management plan in place to manage contamination
Global positioning systems used during construction to manage the works in a more advanced manner