Update: 3 September 2020
The new Racecourse Road Bore has been supplying the Amberley and Amberley Beach townships for about 2 months now and the tests results are looking good! Recent testing shows the bore has softened the water in Amberley by about 45% ( to 84 g/mᶾ as CaCO₃)
News Originally published: 8 June 2020
A newly drilled bore is now the primary source of water for Amberley and is estimated to soften the water by nearly 50%.
The new water source was commissioned prior to COVID-19 Lockdown and has been slowly introduced over the last few months. It is intended to soften the water and also increase the supply for the summer months.
The bore has been a while in the making and came about due to community concerns regarding discolouration and hardness of the water in Amberley.
Supplying the new water source came at a cost of $1.3m and required a newly built plant, the 141.5 metre deep new secure bore, 6 new 30,000l reservoirs, a water treatment and booster pump station and five kilometres of pipeline to get the water to the township reservoir.
When only running the old bores the hardness of the water was around 155-165 mg/l on the hardness scale. The new bore is between 70-80 mg/l. This is being mixed with a small portion Leithfield Beach water and that hardness is around 90-100 mg/l.
Classification
| Total Hardness (mg/l)
|
|---|
Soft
| 0-17
|
| Slightly Hard
| 17-60
|
| Moderately Hard
| 60-120
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| Hard
| 120-180
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| Very Hard
| Above 180
|
