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Who has to pay: The following retailers and power stations were to be be declared as Grid Customers and, as beneficiaries, be subject to cost recovery arrangements commencing as of 1 July 2008:

Councils: Beaudesert Shire Council; Boonah Shire Council; Brisbane City Council; Caboolture Shire Council; Council of the Shire of Esk; Gatton Shire Council; Gold Coast City Council; Ipswich City Council; Kilcoy Shire Council; Laidley Shire Council; Logan City Council; Pine Rivers Shire Council; Redcliffe City Council;

Power stations;: CS Energy (Swanbank Power Station) Tarong Energy (Tarong Power Station and Tarong North Power Station).

Users must pay: The plan was the following entities be declared as Grid Customers and, as beneficiaries, be subject to cost recovery arrangements commencing as of 1 July 2009: Redland Shire Council, Noosa Shire Council, Maroochy Shire Council and Caloundra City Council.

Toowoomba a possible: Assessment as to whether Toowoomba is a beneficiary of the Water Grid will be dependent on whether a pipeline interconnection to Wivenhoe Dam is to be established.
).The fundamental scope of the Water Grid will be defined in terms of both:

• the Grid Assets required to be managed in a coordinated manner by the Grid Manager; and

• the Grid Customers, being those communities to which the Water Grid provides services at specified off-take points or ‘demand nodes’.

The beneficiaries of the Water Grid are those customers within the South East Queensland (SEQ) Region that benefit from security of supply. These beneficiaries will be declared as Grid Customers and will be required, in aggregate, to pay for the supply of those services;. The Water Grid provides security of supply through a commitment to supply water in accordance with defined Level of Service Objectives which address hydrologic risk. The Water Grid may also improve GridCustomers’ ability to mitigate risks such as localised asset failure (for example treatment plant failure) and source risks (for example a contamination event in a dam); and the economic and social well-being of SEQ’s individual communities are inherently interdependent and an improvement to water supply security in one community provides benefits to the entire SEQ Region.

Reference: Queensland Water Commission, Institutional Arrangements for Urban Water Supply Arrangements in South East Queensland, Draft Report for Consultation, February 2007, website: http://www.qwc.qld.gov.au
Contact: Chief Executive Officer, Queensland Water Commission, PO Box 15087, City East QLD Australia 4002, ph: (07) 3227 8207, fax: (07) 3033 0887, email: qwcenquiries@qwc.qld.gov.au Closing date for submissions: Thursday 5 April 2007.

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