THE QUEENSLAND Government has awarded a tender to design and construct water fluoridation facilities in the state’s south-east to the Tenix Alliance. The company will undertake the $35m program to upgrade six plants so they provide fluoridated water to the region by 2012.
The contractor says work on a facility in Mount Crosby, west of Brisbane will begin in October and will provide fluoridated water from December 2008.
Construction on plants at North Pine, Landers Shute, Molendinar and Mudgeeraba will follow. The remaining plants will be upgraded by the end of 2009.
The Queensland Premier, Anna Bligh, says the project is a big step forward for preventative dental health in the state.
The Fluoride Program will be managed by new bulk water authority Seqwater on behalf of the government.
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