At this month’s Logan City Council Meeting, Mayor Darren Power recognised the ‘clean sweep’ at the Engineering Industrial Awards by the Cedar Grove Environmental Centre.
Cedar Grove Environmental Centre is Queensland’s first sustainable wastewater treatment plant.
Unlike conventional wastewater treatment plants, the Cedar Grove Environmental Centre benefits the Logan River and its catchment through record low levels of nutrients in reclaimed water, and catchment restoration projects.
Cedar Grove Environmental Centre is also an environmental reserve for the community and a centre for research.
Community and environmental uses occupy 95 per cent of the 204-hectare site.
The site includes seven hectares of wetlands, 120,000 native trees and shrubs, some of Logan’s oldest recorded Queensland Blue Gum trees and more than 20 bird species.
Logan City Council Mayor Darren Power said the Cedar Grove Environmental Centre operates under the strictest environmental licence ever granted by the Queensland’s Department of Environment and Science.
Mayor Power and a representative from the Cedar Grove Environmental Centre at the council meeting.
“This recently completed project has won it’s third award in a row in the past month,” Cr Power said.
“It won the Australian Water Association of Qld Infrastructure Project Innovation award.
“At the event acting water business manager Ben Steele was also a finalist in the young water professionals of the year category.
“The award for Cedar Grove Environmental Centre follows an Australia Engineering excellence award in September and an institution of public works engineering Australasia Qld award for excellence in the innovation and sustainability water category in November.
“These are outstanding achievements and Logan water staff are to be congratulated for the delivery for this challenging $117 million project.
“Cedar Grove Environmental Centre is more than a wastewater treatment plant. It benefits the environment and the community are regularly visiting the site for recreation.”
