Every small plant. One standard answer.
The Wastewater Infrastructure Accelerator site portal maps every small treatment plant in the programme range. For each one: the community it serves, the plant that is there today, the standard Kubota module that would replace it, what it costs over 35 years, how it is run, and how quickly it can be built.
A whole town's treatment plant, in a corner of a paddock.
Ashbourne, New South Wales: 100 kL a day (about 400 people, 160 connections) for a new community, installed in about six weeks by True Water and operated under a utility licence. Risers flush with the ground, one kiosk, no ponds, no odour. This is the standard every programme site is built to.
About six weeks on site. Ashbourne, NSW: vessels set, platform and services built, kiosk connected, and the plant licensed and operating in August 2024. Factory-built modules are why the site programme is measured in weeks, not years.
How to use this portal
Built for the people assessing and delivering the programme. Start anywhere.
Every candidate community on one map. Select a site for its aerial view and full record: community, flows, consent, existing plant, proposed module, cost, O&M, delivery, environmental benefit.
02Sites registerThe same records as a sortable table with totals, tagged to the RFP size brackets, influent scenarios and receiving environments.
03SummaryWhat the sites add up to: people, flows, capital, whole-of-life cost, delivery waves against the Framework minimum, and tonnes of load removed.
04Plant & equipmentThe two standard technologies, the components inside them, an interactive process flow and a 3D model you can orbit and open up.
05PartnersTrue Water as the accountable lead, Kubota as manufacturer, and the New Zealand engineering, construction and servicing partners.
06ProgrammeWhat NIFF's Wastewater Investment Accelerator is, why now, the WEPS receiving classes and how each is met, and why the right solution matters for New Zealand's people, water and environment.
Candidate sites and standard module match
Every site is tagged to the RFP size bracket (S1 to S5), influent scenario and the standard Kubota module that covers its average dry-weather flow. Figures are planning estimates from public sources; see Basis.
What the candidate sites add up to
Totals follow the current filter on the Map and Sites pages. Figures are planning estimates from public sources.
Two technologies, one standard fleet
Factory-built Kubota treatment modules in standard sizes, with the same blowers, pumps, membranes, controls and telemetry at every site. Standardisation is what makes interchangeable spares, one operator training pathway and one compliance dataset possible across the programme.
Module configurator
Pick a system and a module size to see what is delivered: people served, connections, vessels, membrane cassettes, effluent quality and an indicative section. Standard modules are 10, 20 and 50 kL/d; larger flows are met with modules in parallel or a Kubota single-train plant. New Zealand units carry disinfection and treated-effluent chambers inside the same FRP vessel: a second pathogen barrier and a fixed compliance sampling point, with nothing extra on site.
One fleet, long-lived suppliers
Every pump, blower, membrane and controller in the programme comes from a manufacturer that has been making it for generations. For a 35-year asset, supplier longevity is a design parameter.
One accountable lead, a team already working together
True Water is the respondent and single head contractor. Kubota manufactures the plant. The New Zealand partners below have been working with True Water on its NZ programme since before the Accelerator was announced. Select a partner for its profile, role, capability, reference projects and key people.