Current mining operations at New Acland uses recycled water from the Toowoomba Regional Council’s Wetalla wastewater reclamation facility.
The $30 million pipeline and pumping system, from Wetalla to the mine, was funded by New Hope. Only about 20 per cent of Wetalla’s water is purchased by New Hope with the majority of the water currently discharged down Gowrie Creek and available to local irrigators.
As well as running cattle on New Acland Mine's rehabilitated land, Acland Pastoral Company receives all of its water from the mine.
