Lake View

The UniSC Sunshine Coast campus is the low point in the wider Sippy Downs catchment area. At the low point of the campus are two lakes with a capacity for 130,000,000 litres of water. The lake water is part of an integrated catchment system that directs stormwater, rain and wastewater run-off through a system of swales and creeks before being collected for storage in two lakes onsite.

Untreated lake water is used for irrigation of campus fields. On-site water treatment removes solids and modifies the lake water to produce potable standard water for use in the central energy plant and the cooling towers which are a part of the campus air-conditioning system.

Since this project has been implemented, the University has saved over 20,000 litres of mains water used per day, which also significantly reduces the cost.