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SunWater

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Industry
  
Water resources

Products
  
Water

Headquarters
  
Brisbane

Total assets
  
10 billion AUD

Area served
  
Queensland

Website
  
sunwater.com.au

Founded
  
2000

Parent organization
  
Government of Queensland

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Type
  
Government-owned corporation

Services
  
From designing and building dams, managing and operating infrastructure

CEO
  
Nicole Hollows (26 Apr 2016–)

Profiles

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SunWater, the trading name of SunWater Limited, is a statutory Queensland Government-owned corporation that supplies bulk water to over 5,000 customers and water consultancy services to a range of institutional clients in the Wide Bay–Burnett and North West regions of Queensland, Australia.

Contents

SunWater was established on 1 October 2000 pursuant to the Government Owned Corporations Act 1993 (QLD) and the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)

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Function and activities

SunWater is responsible for the operation and maintenance of 19 major dams, 63 weirs, 80 major pumping stations and more than 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) of pipelines and open channels. Water storage infrastructure managed by SunWater includes Burdekin Falls Dam, Bjelke-Petersen Dam and Wuruma Dam.

SunWater constructed, and owns and operates the Tinaroo Hydro Power Station, a mini–hydroelectric power station at Lake Tinaroo; and the Paradise Mini-Hydro, a mini–hydroelectric power station at Paradise Dam, impacted by flooding near Bundaberg in 2010.

References

SunWater Wikipedia