The housing boom in Angle Vale, a suburb of Adelaide, is pushing its water infrastructure to the limit. As the population grows, many residents rely on septic systems or trucked sewage services. To address these issues, the government plans to invest nearly sixty million dollars in water infrastructure upgrades, aiming to modernise facilities and ensure they meet the community's expanding needs.
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00:00 Anglevale resident Peter Dunn has spent years pleading for better water infrastructure.
00:08 His property isn't connected to main sewerage and the road outside his home floods as there's
00:13 no stormwater drainage.
00:15 It's extremely frustrating and you can see it all going on around you and nothing happens
00:21 and you're paying rates and taxes.
00:24 It's a problem across Anglevale, a rapidly growing outer northern suburb. About 500 new
00:30 households in the area currently rely on trucks to remove sewerage on an almost daily basis.
00:37 Developments were being established, were being sold and being lived in before trunk
00:43 lines were able to be connected.
00:45 That is a really third grade outcome for people here in the northern suburbs. It also doesn't
00:52 help you sell houses either.
00:54 About 1,400 additional new homes are planned for Anglevale. The SA Government will spend
01:00 $59 million to upgrade water and sewerage infrastructure to ensure those houses are
01:06 built.
01:07 This is absolutely an enabler for development. It is absolutely part of the solution to the
01:12 housing crisis.
01:13 The funds for the services are required now and we really need to start work now.
01:18 It's not just Anglevale where water infrastructure upgrades are needed. SA Water wants to spend
01:24 more than $360 million on capital works to handle growth across Adelaide's north. That
01:31 could see household water bills increase if the plan's approved.
01:35 If there's some consolation to paying a water bill, it's knowing that we are making the
01:40 investments to lower the price of housing.
01:44 The Government says it will announce more water infrastructure projects next month.
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