LOCATION: Port Mandurah, Western Australia
AWARDS : 1991 Association of Consulting Engineers of Australia (WA) Awards
Winner, Civil Engineering Category
A technically advanced engineering design by Airey Taylor Consulting overcame serious design shortcomings evident in earlier canal developments designed by others.
Airey Taylor Consulting pioneered the use of vacuum sewerage systems to meet the challenge of the presence of a high-water table – using these systems for the first time in Western Australia. These hydraulic systems are now used extensively by the Water Corporation of Western Australia.
The project also demonstrated environmentally sensitive, comprehensive water studies and analysis; storm surge and hydraulic flood studies; sewerage reticulation, sewerage pumping station and rising main water quality investigations; and design and documentation of supporting earthworks, roads, drainage & drinking water supply – all with integrated pipeline and pipe network designs.
