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Australian ski resort to make snow from recycled water
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Australian ski resort Mount Hotham, in Victoria state, has announced it will start using recycled water for snowmaking as part of an $8 million project with the Victorian Government.

Environment Minister John Thwaites says the scheme will ease pressure on alpine catchments. "I'm sure that resorts elsewhere in Australia and around the world will look at what Mount Hotham is doing and using recycled water for snow-making," he said.

This report from ABC News Online.

From my limited knowledge of water use in snowmaking this does appear to be unusual, if not a first - snowmaking reservoirs are invariably fed by natural springs and streams. Whether the use of water that has (presumably) been chlorinated or otherwise chemically treated is a good idea is an interesting point to ponder.

If the water has been UV-sterilised it might be fine. Does anyone have any knowledge of this?
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David Goldsmith, Most of our cannons are fed from catchment lakes. We don't have many springs or streams and therefore most of the cannons are fed by recycled snow. At the glacier restaurant (and others on the mountain), they use recycled water in the loos etc. Wasn't it something like this that fell foul of some native americans in Arizona or New Mexico - putting unclean water on their sacred mountain or something?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Well they do say that dirty water makes better snow
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David Goldsmith, are you concerned with snowmaking efficiency or with hygiene? Smuggler's Notch has had some interesting possibly related projects. I have a vague memory of a septic field project at Killington?, from before that database was created (1990?) but can't seem to confirm it.
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