Cape Grim

You wouldn't want to live there, but the rain water is worth bottling. At Cape Grim it rains on average 187 days a year and it's cold. Even native animals don't like it, so there are very few of them!

The Cape Grim Water Company estate is comprised of 197 hectares of barren rock and scrub. The nearest land mass on latitude 40 degrees South is South America, 16,000km away. The wind and rain known as the 'Roaring 40's', travel this vast distance without passing over any land mass at all. They arrive at Tasmania in a virgin state.

Apart from the Water collection facility, the only building is the CSIRO Bureau of Meteorology weather station which monitors the Antarctic winds, rain and air that flow onto Cape Grim. Stanley, a small seaside historic township of approx 2500 people is about 85 kilometres away and home to the employees of Cape Grim.

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10 years ago, when the Cape Grim Water Company started it purchased 300 hecteres of land at Cape Grim, under the guidance of Australian Government's Scientific and Research Organization, the CSIRO. The land was chosen so it would be far enough from potential air bound contaminates such as crop spraying and heavy sea salts, yet close enough to the sea to catch the pristine rains. The Antaractic's Baseline Air Pollution Station is at Cape Grim and it does an air purity reading every 30 seconds. Engineers tailor designed and produced a series of large Food Quality, odorless panels that have the capability of being automatically cleaned. Each panel has the capability of collecting 6 million litres of water. The water is straight away transfer through a filter into air free 30,000 Litre tanks. From this point on the water never comes in contact with air again until it goes into the bottler, and then it is sterile air. Because Cape Grim's supply is limited, it rains on average only 187 days a year, bulk storage is critical to meet supply.