Australia’s Highest Ski Area’s 2024 Delays Season Start After Fire Damage
Australia’s Highest Ski Area’s 2024 Delays Season Start After Fire Damage
Published : 03-Jun-2024 08:51
A fire at the sewage processing plant at Australia's highest ski area, Charlotte Pass near Perisher in New South Wales, has had to delay its planned season start in three weeks' time.
A statement from the centre's operators explained that the fire damage occurring so close to the start of the season posed "present significant challenges," adding that "Following the fire …the village unable to process any wastewater from taps, showers or toilets at this time. …Charlotte Pass Village remains closed to the public and no access is available."
Options considered included trucking out wastewater, restoring parts of the plant that were not affected by the fire or bringing in a temporary sewage treatment plant for the season. However, the centre's management says all three options each come with issues that may make them non-viable.
"Charlotte Pass will only progress with a solution where it can be confident on ensuring it can minimise any risk to the sensitive alpine environment the resort operates in," a statement last Wednesday said. However, a new statement said a partial fix of the existing facility had been decided upon and the centre plans to open July 5th, just in time for the peak school holidays period in the country.
Charlotte Pass, which is also Australia's oldest and frequently snowiest ski area and only accessible over snow on special resort vehicles from Perisher in the winter season, is owned by the Blyton Group which also owns Australia's Selwyn ski resort which was destroyed by bush fires in early 2020, re-opening two years later.
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