Plans for a multi-million dollar hot springs resort near the Twelve Apostles have been given the green light from the Environmental Protection Authority.
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The $125 million Twelve Apostles Hot Springs has been given an EPA works approval for on-site water treatment plants at the Booringa Road, Princetown site.
The treatment plant will service the geothermal spas and 30 rooms of accommodation by 2020, with 150 rooms planned for the resort by 2026.
The treatment plant would be on land that is currently operated as a dairy farm.
The EPA said the plant would independently treat two separate streams of wastewater, one from the toilets/spa and laundry (peak flow rate of 72 kilolitres per day and 27 megalitres annually) and the other from backwash water from the spas at 40 kilolitres per day.
Corangamite Shire granted a planning permit to the resort in December last year.
The resort will be located about 1.2 kilometres from the Twelve Apostles. It will be built over three stages and include a low-rise main building, a series of modular hot springs bathing facilities, a wellness centre and restaurant.
The 78-hectare site will have on-site parking and a nursery to help re-vegetate the site, as well as a kitchen garden and sustainability inclusions such as solar panels.
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