Clean TeQ Water Ltd (ASX:CNQ) has been awarded a material contract with Power Water Corporation to supply a treatment plant to remove pollutants from the bore water in Laramba to meet Australian Drinking Water Guidelines.
The township of Laramba is about 200 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.
The treatment plant is the first to be delivered as part of the Northern Territory Government's A$28 million programs to improve water quality and supply infrastructure to prioritised areas of critical need.
Delivery by December 2022
Clean TeQ will design, manufacture, and deliver the plant using the company’s ion exchange technology to remove pollutants from bore water.
The contract has a total value of about A$5 million.
The design phase has already commenced via a Letter of Intent (LOI) signed in March 2022 and the planned date for practical completion of the plant is the 16th of December 2022.
The global need for groundwater treatment technologies is increasing as economic activity, climate change, declining groundwater levels, and increasing pollution from natural sources, agriculture, and industry.
The Laramba project will extend Clean TeQ Water’s footprint in the groundwater treatment market.
Clean TeQ Water’s ion-exchange technologies can reliably remove targeted pollutants while minimizing the amount of secondary waste.
These qualities make the company’s resin technology specifically suitable for the treatment of ground and bore water in remote locations.
“Delivering larger and more complex plants”
Clean TeQ Water CEO Willem Vriesendorp said: “We are excited to be working with NT Power and Water to provide better water quality to remote communities.
“We hope this to be the first of multiple contracts with Power and Water as they look to upgrade the water infrastructure in remote towns in the Northern Territory.
“This contract demonstrates the development of our company in delivering larger and more complex plants.”