PROJECT DETAILS


  • Project No 3052
  • Project Name crcCARE: Water Industry Consortium research program
  • Lead Organisation Water Research Australia
  • Completion Year 2024

National Research Priority: Customers, Supply Optimisation

Project Description

WaterRA is leading a Water Industry Consortium (WIC) to deliver a research program through the Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (crcCARE). crcCARE is currently delivering three projects for the WIC:

  1. Review of literature and industry experience: Fate and transport of PFAS throughout the water and wastewater treatment chain.
  2. PhD project (4974): Fate and risk of pharmaceuticals in land-applied biosolids.
  3. Study into PFAS distribution and retention in surface soil and vadose zone environments at selected PFAS-impacted sites subjected to recycled water applications.