Water Reuse

Group Leader: Peter Dillon

Projects

Current projects

• Premier's Water Foundation MAR projects - Determining requirements for managed aquifer recharge in Western Australia:
• CSIRO Floreat, WA Site (2005-08)
• Halls Head, Mandurah, WA Site (2005-08)
• Development of the Southern River Integrated Catchment Strategy, WA (2004-2008)
• Investigation of techniques to better manage Western Australia 's non-potable water resources - Premier's Water Foundation project (2005 - 2008)
• ASTR for stormwater to potable supplies, Salisbury, SA (2005-08)
• Research into well clogging mechanisms in alluvial ASR (2005-08)
• Fate of stormwater contaminants, Mt Gambier, SA (2003-07)
• Development of ASR Opportunities in Melbourne, VIC (2004-07)
• Arsenic mobilisation during managed aquifer recharge (2006-07)
• ACIAR Enhancing agricultural production by sustainable use of shallow groundwater (2004–07)
• Unconsolidated aquifer ASR (2005–07)
• Soil Aquifer Treatment for horticultural water reuse, Alice Springs, NT (2003-06)
• Domestic scale rainwater ASR, Adelaide, SA (2003-06)
• Environmental risk index for laundry detergents (2005-06)
• Water Quality Changes during Aquifer Storage and Recovery - AWWARF Project 2974 (2005-06)
• Water Quality Changes during ASR with Reclaimed Water - Water Reuse Foundation/Carollo (2005-06)

Recently completed projects

• Holistic solutions to on-site wastewater treatment over a karstic aquifer system in Mount Gambier (2007-2008)
• Assessing and Improving the Sustainability of Urban Water Resources and Systems (AISUWRS) – Mount Gambier Case Study (2003-06)
• Reclaimed water ASR, Bolivar, SA (1997-2005)

Student projects

• Public health risk in use of biosolids as fertilisers in agriculture