Burdekin Falls Dam Improvement Project – Project Stages

Burdekin Falls Dam Improvement Project

Burdekin Falls Dam, North Queensland

The Project will ensure the long-term viability of the dam by bringing its infrastructure into line with the safety requirements set out in the Water Supply (Safety and Reliability) Act 2008 (Qld).

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Project Stages

We deliver projects in a staged approach to ensure our proposed scope demonstrates prudent and efficient investment while maintaining public safety, the security of water supply and delivering the best value for money.

The detailed business case

Sunwater submitted a combined detailed business case to the Queensland Government for review based on a combined dam improvement and raising

The detailed business case aligned with the Queensland Government’s (formerly Building Queensland) Business Case Development Framework.

Burdekin Falls Dam improvement works are necessary to satisfy safety requirements and engineering design standards and must be undertaken. The dam raising project is an opportunity to improve supply reliability at the same time that the improvement work is being delivered.

In November 2022 the Queensland Government approved the planning of a two-metre raise through the progression of an environmental impact statement (EIS).