Engineering standards
Engineering standards
A suite of Engineering Standard documents (i.e, standards, guidelines and drawings) have been developed to assist in the design, development, maintenance and management of more than $6 billion of infrastructure. As all standards and guidelines are modified and updated, they can be re-numbered.
Definitions
Technical Standards
Technical Standards define our requirements for the construction and/or modification of SA Water’s assets. Technical Standards form part of contract documentation and are contractually binding.
Technical Guidelines
Guidelines are intended to inform the designer of principles and practices to be applied to the construction and modification of our assets. Guidelines cover the design of particular types of infrastructure (such as pumping stations) as well as systems (such as electrical and computer-based) and are applicable to all infrastructure types. It is intended that technical guidelines form part of the project contract documentation and the principles and practices they specify are contractually binding upon designers and constructors.
Standard Drawings
These define our requirements for the construction and modification to our assets. It is intended that standard drawings form part of the construction contract documentation and are contractually binding.
Typical Drawings
These are intended to inform the designer of our engineering standards which may be one acceptable method, or our preferred method of complying with engineering standards. Typical drawings are generally specific to types of infrastructure. Typical drawings may be used by designers as a base to develop their own designs. They are not to be used as construction documents and must be reviewed and modified, as required, by designers to produce project specific design drawings for construction. We accept no responsibility for contractor designs based on typical drawings or assets constructed to typical drawings.
Dispensation Requests
SA Water has established a Dispensation Procedure (V3.0) for managing requests to depart from SA Water's technical requirements. Applicants should familiarise themselves with the procedure and use the request form to submit applications for consideration.
SA Water’s dispensation process will be closed for the Christmas/New Year break from the 15th of December 2023, and will re-open on the 3rd of January 2024. Submissions made during the closure period will be actioned when the process re-opens in 2024.
Further Information - Engineering Standards
For information regarding our engineering standards please contact:
Matthew Davis
Manager Engineering Quality and Innovation
250 Victoria Square, ADELAIDE SA 5000
GPO Box 1751, ADELAIDE SA 5001
Phone: (08) 7424 2491
Email: matthew.davis@sawater.com.au
Major faults
Polkinghorns Rd
Arthurton
- 18/06/2020
Water Supply On
- 18/06/2020 03:05 PM - We are attending to an incident in Arthurton with no interruption to the water supply. The safety of our crews and customers comes first, and we always aim to minimise inconvenience by restoring services as quickly as we can. Reference Number WO: 07505663.
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Spruance Rd
Elizabeth East
- 11/06/2021
Temporary Supply Interruption
- Estimated start time and water supply off: 15/06/2021 09:00 AM
Estimated restore time and water supply back on: 15/06/2021 04:00 PM
We’re improving your services and undertaking maintenance work in Elizabeth East. Sometimes our crews need to temporarily interrupt the water supply to our customers and/or manage traffic while they are working. Temporary traffic management may remain in place until reinstatement of the impacted road is complete. We always aim to minimise inconvenience by restoring services as safely and quickly as we can. - See all scheduled works
