Standards and policies

Explore our resources to streamline your projects and ensure compliance with our guidelines and standards.

Fees and charges

Our current pricing schedule details our fees and charges for applications, services and contraventions.

Fees and charges

Land development guide

This guide offers tailored guidance for residential, commercial and industrial developers, along with their representatives, including consultants, contractors, surveyors, and service authorities.

Land development guide

Land development servicing requirements

This guide details our servicing requirements for land development projects, including both land subdivision and non-subdivision proposals.

Land development servicing requirements

Build over guidelines

These guidelines explain the need to protect Barwon Water assets, and why consent will only be provided in certain circumstances and upon particular conditions.

Metering and servicing requirements

This guide details our requirements for connecting and managing meter installations to our assets, including drinking water, non-drinking water services, and trade waste connections.

Products and standards

This is a list of approved products, materials and design standards for pipeline systems and associated infrastructure work.'

This information is invaluable for product suppliers and vendors, construction professionals, and engineering designers and contractors.

Products and standards

New customer contributions

The new customer contributions framework outlines our approach to tariffs over the 2023/24 to 2027/28 period.

This framework ensures fair and timely connections for new customers while considering the benefit of new connections relative to existing customers.