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LinkWater community engagement 

Consent_online.gifLinkWater understands that best practice involves excellence in customer service and a commitment to growing and maintaining long-term, productive relationships with local communities. This includes minimising impacts on the community caused by our activities and providing a 1800 FREECALL number so you can talk to us at any time.

Consent_download.gifMost of LinkWater's infrastructure is located within LinkWater-owned lands, road reserves and/or within easements held over both public and or privately owned properties.  Many of our pipelines and associated facilities (valves, etc) are located within easements in private land and we occassionally require access to carry out repairs or maintenance activities. 

Consent_help.gifLinkWater will endeavour to provide 14 days' notice, though it is not obliged to do so under the terms of the easement.  If LinkWater is required to access any part of the property outside of the easement area, to inspect, operate, change, maintain, remove, repair or replace its infrastructure it does so under section 36 of the Water Supply (Safety and Reliability) Act 2008.

LinkWater will work with landowners to minimise inconvenience caused by:  

(+) Inspections of, and access to, LinkWater assets on private land 

We are committed to ensuring our infrastructure assets are of a high safety and operating standard and may require access to inspect and/or work on those assets.  In those cases, we will provide as much notice as is practicable to residents (even in emergencies) and will as far as is practical to be swift, professional and courteous in all our work we undertake.

(+) Planned maintenance activities 

To keep our systems running smoothly and safely, we may need to undertake maintenance, depending on the type of asset.  We will endeavour to provide as much notice as possible to residents, businesses, councils and other organisations so that we create as little interruption as possible.

(+) Excavations and installation of structures 

Occasionally we will need to remove old pipeline components and replace them with new.  Depending on the scale of the work, we will notify residents, businesses or other stakeholders that may be affected and work with them to understand their requirements and minimise any inconvenience.  LinkWater will fully restore properties after work is complete.

(+) Emergency access 

In emergencies, LinkWater staff or authorised contractors may need to access properties to undertake immediate repairs of affected infrastructure assets.  Where urgent action is required, immediate access will be necessary to preserve life and property.  In these circumstances, every effort will be made to contact owners prior to accessing any property.

(+) Newly constructed pipelines 

LinkWater will ensure communication is maintained with affected landowner(s) and to manage expectations to achieve the best outcome for all parties.

As our way of giving back to local communities impacted by our newly-constructed pipelines, LinkWater has commissioned a number of legacies across several newly-constructed pipelines.

These social and environmental legacies are provided through our construction alliances to local communities.  All of LinkWater's legacies involve a range of partners and were designed to be long-standing with minimal ongoing maintenance, coupled with local community involvement.

(+) Works by Landowners or other third parties within the easement area and or pipeline corridors 

In order to protect the pipeline infrastructure from damage and to enable the continue safe operation of the South East Queensland Water Gird, any works or activities within the easement area and or along LinkWater's pipeline corridors by landowners and or third parties will require written consent from LinkWater before those works can proceed.

 

For further information relating to this please refer to Living or working on LinkWater's easements and/or within its infrastructure corridors.

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