Project Approvals
The Water Corporation reached a critical milestone in late June 2009 when the Federal Government granted conditional environmental approval for the Southern Seawater Desalination Project, the final external approval required.
As was the case with the State Government’s environmental approval, the Federal Government imposed strict conditions on the project to ensure the protection of the Matters of National Environmental Significance protected under the Federal act. To review both condition sets, please see below.
The Corporation and SSWA welcomed the additional conditions. These conditions, along with the Corporation's management plans will assist in further minimising the project’s potential environmental impacts.
As part of the conditions, a Revegetation Plan, and more recently a Marine Blasting Management Plan, were developed by the Corporation and approved by for implementation. Both these plans can be found below.
To review more of the Corporation's management plans and environmental reports, please use the links to the right of the screen.
 | How environmental impacts have been minimised |
| | State Environmental Approval Conditions - 2.2 MB |
| | Federal Environmental Approval Conditions - 3.7 MB |
| | Revegetation Management Plan - 5 MB |
| | Marine Blasting Management Plan - 2.5 MB |
** If you would like a hard copy of the above conditions, please email desalination@watercorporation.com.au or call 1800 810 075.