Asset life shapes everything.
Fifty-year agreements need different drafting, different escalation, and different succession planning than energy options. The drafting has to anticipate landholder change.
Water Infrastructure · Developer side
Water network easements and pipeline land access.
Long-lived infrastructure on long-held land. Water network projects test the depth of the landholder relationship more than almost any other sector — fifty-year agreements, multi-generational landholders, and succession built into the drafting.
Why AA in this sector
Long-asset-life work needs long-asset-life drafting.
Water infrastructure is the longest-lived class of asset we work on. Agreements run for fifty years or more, on land that has often been in the same family for generations. The engagement quality has to match the asset life — and the drafting has to anticipate landholder change, not paper over it.
AA supports water network easements, pipeline alignments, treatment facility access, pump station siting and rural water infrastructure. The technical envelope is wide; the landholder count per project ranges from single-host (pump station, treatment facility) to corridor-scale (pipeline).
We do not do native title, government landholder access, or community engagement — those work streams sit with specialist providers. We sit on the developer side, securing private landholder access on terms that hold for the life of the asset.
Restoration and environmental works are a separate sector — see Environmental Restoration for floodplain, streambank and riparian programmes.
Key considerations
What water infrastructure proponents test a land access consultant on.
Five lines of inquiry on pipeline and network engagements.
Single high-impact host.
Pump stations, treatment facilities and pipeline terminus points often sit on one landholder's property. That relationship is the project.
Subsurface easements are invisible.
Pipeline easements run underground and look different from surface infrastructure to a landholder. Plain-English framing matters more than on overhead corridors.
Succession-aware drafting.
Owners change over fifty years. The agreement needs to survive succession; the relationship is built to.
Construction window is a landholder conversation.
Pipeline alignments cross active farming country. Temporary access, laydown and reinstatement are landholder negotiations, not procurement line items.
Case study · Pumped hydro · NSW
300 MW pumped hydro — impasse resolved in twenty-four hours.
A 330 kV transmission corridor required across mountainous terrain for a 300 MW pumped hydro facility. Six months of failed contact on a critical parcel — unlocked within twenty-four hours by AA's regional liaison network. ~$2B project CAPEX.
300 MW
Pumped hydro capacity
24 hrs
Critical-parcel resolution
~$2B
Project CAPEX
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Network easements and pipeline access.
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