What’s up?! Yamba Sewerage

This section of Clarence Conversations explains the Yamba Sewerage Augmentation Project. It is a new online version of the community newsletter, The Water Cycle, which has been printed and distributed to local residents since 2000.

Regular and technical updates are available every fortnight at www.clarence.nsw.gov.au/yambasewer.

Why is Yamba Sewerage Project important? The existing sewerage system for Yamba and surrounding areas needs to be upgraded to service an increasing population (including visitors) and protect our precious natural environment.

Community decision-making process. Our local community has been actively involved in this project since 1999, when Council set up the Yamba Water Recycling Management Committee and adopted the award-winning Dealing With Our Own Situation community engagement strategy.

About the Yamba Sewerage Project. The project is upgrading the Sewage Treatment Plant to treat more sewage and improve the quality of recycled water; maximizing re-use of recycled water; and releasing excess recycled water into the river on an ebb-tide.

How to ask questions and make comments. If you have a question that is not answered by the information in Clarence Conversations or on the Council’s website, then ask your question here and it will be answered by technical staff from Council.

What’s up?! About the banner on the shipping containers. The giant billboard down at the drilling site is an important part of our community engagement strategy. Perhaps it’s what got you to this website to find out more about the Yamba Sewerage Project.