The Snowy 2.0 Hydroelectric Scheme needed a consistent supply of potable water to remote alpine construction sites in the Snowy Mountains, NSW. R Con Civil supplied that water with NSW-registered potable water carts under a long-term supply contract.
Alpine construction sites sit a long way from town water. Extreme weather, steep terrain and shifting work zones made every delivery harder to plan than a metropolitan cartage run.
The conditions on the job included:
A cart that cannot adapt to those changes leaves a site without drinking-quality water until the next run gets through.
We planned the fill points, the routes and the drop schedule around how each site was working that week. Coordination with the site teams kept water reaching the right pad as the construction zones shifted.
When weather or works closed a road, the route plan changed with it. That flexibility mattered more here than on a typical Canberra cartage run, because a missed delivery leaves an alpine crew without potable water.
Remote water supply needs a delivery plan that holds up when access changes. The approach used on Snowy 2.0 rests on a few fixed steps:
The contract has been extended, and the water supply work has continued across the life of the construction program to date. The same carts and planning carry over to our freshwater delivery work on Canberra construction sites and regional projects.
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