What's this project all about?

Dover is a town of great natural beauty, enjoying the benefits of being on the sea and surrounded by mountains. TasWater has a series of sewerage upgrade projects that will significantly improve protections for local health and the environment. This project helps preserve this natural beauty by making the existing infrastructure compliant with modern standards. Where possible, we worked with the community and landowners to manage and reduce the impacts of construction. We would like to thank the community for their patience through any short-term inconvenience of construction that was required for a long-term gain to the environment and the community.

Western foreshore sewerage upgrades

In 2024, upgrades were completed at the Francistown and Foreshore Sewage Pumping Stations along the Huon Highway, where new underground emergency storage tanks were installed to manage the large amounts of stormwater that enter the system. This helps reduced the risk of future spills following rain. Additionally, anew pressurised pipeline was constructed at the Dover Sewage Treatment Plant on Francistown Road.

North shore sewage pumping station upgrades

TasWater also undertook upgrades to five of Dover’s sewage pumping stations on the north shore, along Bayview Road and Kent Beach Road. New underground emergency storage tanks, new pumps and electrical upgrades were installed. Once again, this was designed to help manage the large amounts of stormwater that enter the sewerage network following rain.

New underground outfall completed

In 2023, TasWater upgraded the Dover Sewage Treatment Plant’s outfall at Knobbys Point, fixing the issues which saw Kent Beach closed in recent years. The new outfall is entirely underground and was drilled offshore near the western edge of Kent Beach, extending 340 metres offshore. The old above-ground pipeline, cracked and corroded from decades of exposure to tidal forces, has been removed. The new outfall extends more than twice as far as the old outfall, into deeper water where it provides better mixing and dilution of treated effluent into the bay's currents.