91 Hammond Ave,
Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Australia
Phone: 02 69220608
Fax: 02 69212241
Current Infrastructure Network
Wagga Wagga and the surrounding region is blessed with a good supply of water for domestic, commercial and industrial use.
The
supplier is RIVERINA WATER COUNTY COUNCIL,
a body formed on 2nd May 1997 specifically for this purpose and operates
under the provisions of the Local Government Act, 1993.
Council
members consist of 5 elected members from Wagga Wagga City Council
and one each from Lockhart and Urana Shire Councils,
and two from Greater Hume Shire.
From Wagga City are Councillors:
Rod
Kendall (Chairperson)
Alan Brown
Wayne
Geale
Ray Goodlass
Lindsay Vidler
From the Shire Councils are Councillors:
Peter Yates, Lockhart
Ian Kreutzberger, Urana
John McInerney (Deputy Chairperson) Greater Hume
John Ross (Greater Hume Shire) -
(formerly Culcairn & Holbrook)
The major change is that there is no longer any association with Electricity Supply. Your County Council is thus a specialist water organisation, with a charter to provide safe reliable water at the lowest sustainable cost.
Riverina Water should be seen as locally owned. It operates within the Local Government System on a non profit basis and is not required to pay a dividend to any other body. It is required to pay some state and federal taxes including the recently increased licence fees for river and underground water. Apart from that all income is used to meet operating, construction and replacement costs of a supply system valued at around $100 million.
There are around 28,941 customer connection to the system which also provides water for fire fighting and some other unconnected consumers.
Riverina Water County Council can be contacted at at 91 Hammond Avenue (Administration, Waterworks, Depot & Store) or by phoning the local water operator in the rural area. Telephone numbers are listed under "W" for water in the white pages of the telephone directory.