Panton Hill Tanks Upgrade Project
To ensure the ongoing supply of safe drinking water and to improve safety for staff working at Panton Hill, we are constructing a new steel water tank and demolishing the existing concrete tanks.
We will replace the two existing concrete water storage tanks at 668 Kangaroo Ground – St Andrews Road, Panton Hill with a new welded steel tank.
The new tank will be approximately 11 metres high, 12 metres diameter and store 1.03 megalitres – an equivalent capacity to the two existing tanks.
We expect work to start in mid-November 2020 and be completed by September 2021, subject to weather, ground conditions and COVID-19 restrictions.
Our project partners, Simpson Construction Pty Ltd, will deliver this project on our behalf.
Timeline
To ensure we can continue to supply water to our customers while the new tank is being constructed, this project will be completed in stages.
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Impacts - what to expect
Normal working hours are between 7am and 6pm, Monday to Friday and 9am to 3pm, Saturday.
Our work will be noisy, especially when we demolish the concrete tanks and when we are welding and painting the new steel tank.
There will be additional traffic on local roads as our construction crews travel to and from site - and when specialist machinery and equipment is being delivered and materials removed.
For safety and to improve access, we need to widen and seal the road to the tanks.
Some of the vegetation and trees along the road and at the tank site will be removed, in accordance with our Planning Permit from Nillumbik Shire Council. To minimise the impact of our work on existing native vegetation and trees, No Go Zones will be established to protect remnant vegetation, flora and fauna.
There will be no interruption to your water supply while this work is being completed.
Map
The map shows the location of the existing water tanks at Kangaroo Ground – St Andrews Road, Panton Hill.


Project updates
View September 2020 project bulletin PDF (382KB)
Contact us
For more information about this project, contact the Project Manager,
Shovana Pradhan on 9872 1390 or email [email protected]