The sustainable water yield is calculated to avoid depleting the aquifer faster than injected rainwater and naturally occuring runoff can refill it. This refilling process is called aquifer recharge.

Overly heavy extraction without adequate aquifer recharge can lower the water table, causing shallow private or agricultural wells to run dry.

Excessive pumping without adequate aquifer recharge removes water that supports underground sediment, leading to permanent land subsidence and damaged surface infrastructure.

If the wells were located adjacent to industrial waste, seawater or agricultural waste outflows, excessive water extraction without adequate aquifer recharge can pull pollutants from adjacent outfalls into clean drinking water wells. The extraction area is buffered by pine plantation, aquify recharge managed and there are no outfalls or pollutants in the vicinity.

Many aquifers are connected to surface water; excessive pumping without aquifer recharge and management, can reduce baseflow in nearby waterways. Stormwater and recharge infrastructure strictly mirrors and regulates the sites existing watershed velocities, preventing downstream soil erosion.

Operators must navigate local, state, and federal water rights laws, environmental reviews, and strict monitoring and management rules.

Agencies use observation wells, computer groundwater models, and ongoing data collection to track and manage any changes in water levels and quality in both the aquifer and any attached waterways.

Demand, the area is one of the fastest growing regions in all of Australia and water utility infrastructure is needed in order to manage the water availability to the community as the population and water consumption increases.

The targeted acquisition of this corridor of land enables bulk water availability for the public network and net-zero environmental sustainability.

The project owner has a mandate not to reduce clean drinking water availability to the broader community. This project does not reduce water availability from the existing dams that currently supply clean treated drinking water in the SEQ Water Grid. 

The site is of sufficient area that recharging of the aquifer can be done through managing the storage and reinjection of rainwater and through natural stormwater run off without affecting the aquifer or waterways. All localized natural drainage aligns strictly with the existing geographic watershed contours, guaranteeing zero downstream runoff impact on neighboring zones

The water extracted and polished from this site is highly valued by local industry, but can also be used to increase bulk water availability for general use by the public in the SEQ Water Grid.

The site is not adjacent to major sources of water contamination, such as industrial outfalls or seawater. In fact the surrounding pine plantation acts as a sink that helps to remove contaminants from the ground water.

The site for the bores and water polishing is buffered by the pine plantation and not adjacent to residential areas.

The existing pine plantation grows highly modified hybrid Southern Pine trees that originate from the USA and Southern America. They are not natives and are of low environmental value, but the soft timber is used for low cost building timber and the pine plantation is clear felled regularly under existing permitted uses. Alternative sites have been found and offered to the plantation owner to offset this timber production by 150%.

The Hennessey Mountain Bike trail is protected by the project covenants and it's community use is supported and encouraged.

There is electricity capacity available from the Powerlink transmission easement that runs through the site.

Negative community impacts are negligible, but community benefits are high.

The project increases water availability by 8GL per annum and it offsets timber supply from the site by 150%.

All bores are located within the property boundaries and are inset from the boundary perimeter, community bike trail, parking and access areas. This means that no offsets or buffers are needed in the surrounding area or the community bike trail.

The project is what is known as a Self-Contained Infrastructure Buffer Model. All buffer zones are within the property boundaries.

Site access is directly from the main road. The Beerburrum-Woodford Rd. 

The project is what is known as a Self-Contained Infrastructure Buffer Model. All buffer zones are within the property boundaries. This approach minimises statutory interference while providing a completely self-contained footprint that leaves outer Crown land unencumbered.

Infrastructure that does not use tax payers money for construction, intead, it uses private funds, with investments supplied by investors and institutions that specialize in infrastructure projects. The project provides a real community benefit by making bulk polished water available to the public whilst the transaction model is designed to minimize the State's administrative burden while leaving outer crown land completely unencumbered. The State's has a vital facilitating role in unlocking this public utility asset.