KIRRIBILLY VINEYARDS AUSTRALIA LONGHORN CREEK SA
| Location | Australia Langhorn Creek SA |
| Project Name | Kirribilli Vineyards |
| Type | SWRO Desalination Plant Double Pass System |
| Size | 4,000 m3/d |
Lakes Growers Turning Desal Water into Wine
For Barry Bormann, owner of one of the state’s largest turf business Bormann Turf, the benefits of desalination systems will be more immediate.
He will able to start using the water this week on lawn plantings already established on his property to ease the stress caused by the salty lake water
“The salt has been slowing its been detrimental to the lawn’s growth,” he said
The plats’s construction comes despite the business being told desalinating the turbid, saline lake water was “not possible” because is was too contaminated with impurities such as salt.
No SA company would even offer a quote on the cost of such as system until overseas enterprice Biosystems took on the challenge, Much of the plant was assemble averseas and shipped to Australia in shipping containers. The eight containers now double as housing for the equipment, which has been installed Kirribilly Viticulture’s property.
Water form lake Alexandrina is pumped into a larger dam, before being feed into 120,000 L, tank at the start of the treatment process.
DESALINATION PLANT
Kirribilly Viticulture vineyard manager Sarah Keogh, Lawsim Vineyard’s Mark Lawrie and Bormann with the new desalination plant that will help secure the future of all three business
