Sewerage Treatment Quality

Each of Coonamble Shire Council’s Sewerage Treatment Plants, in Coonamble and Gulargambone, is licensed by the Environment Protection Authority. 

The full licences for the Coonamble Sewage Treatment Plant (EPA # 4085) and the Gulargambone Sewage Treatment Plant (EPA # 350) are available from the EPA website. 

The objectives of these licences are to: 

• Prevent, as far as practicable, sewage overflows and sewage treatment plant bypasses. 
• require proper and efficient management of the system to minimise harm to the environment and public health. 
• require practical measures to be taken to protect the environment and public health from sewage overflows and sewage treatment plant effluent. 

Data required under the licence are published in PDF format, and include licence details, monitoring points, pollutants and units of measure, monitoring frequency, limits imposed by the licence, any other relevant conditions imposed by the licence, and dates of sampling, data acquisition and publication. 

Coonamble Data Files (PDF format) 

Gulargambone Data Files