Simulated workplaceCAQA ClearFlow Water is a fictional business created by CAQA for training and assessment. It is not a real company and no person, client or record here is real.About this simulation
NWPCAQA ClearFlowSimulated workplace
Today at ClearFlow
68,000 people served
  • Network Work Orders8
  • Water Quality Sampling Register8
  • WHS and Environmental Incident Register8
  • Trade Waste Approvals Register8
Simulated workplace
Water and wastewater utility

Every drop accounted for

CAQA ClearFlow Water is a regional water corporation that supplies drinking water to about 68,000 people in eleven towns, collects and treats their sewage, and delivers irrigation and stock and domestic water through a gravity channel network to farms across the district.

Founded 1995184 staff across four sitesHead office, control centre and operations depot, Shepparton region, VictoriaKialla water treatment plant, raw water storage and Goulburn catchment works
68,000
People served
across eleven towns
1,400 km
Water mains
plus 720 km of sewers
31
Years operating
formed in 1995
6,200
Drinking water samples per year
verification monitoring program
Who we are

CAQA ClearFlow Water, water and wastewater utility

CAQA ClearFlow Water is a regional water corporation that supplies drinking water to about 68,000 people in eleven towns, collects and treats their sewage, and delivers irrigation and stock and domestic water through a gravity channel network to farms across the district. The business draws raw water from a river offtake and a groundwater bore field, treats it at the Kialla plant, and moves it through 1,400 kilometres of mains, 32 pump stations and 19 service reservoirs. Wastewater flows through 720 kilometres of sewers to the Mooroopna plant, where treated effluent is recycled to a dairy pasture irrigation scheme under an environmental licence.

The business runs from a head office and control centre in the Shepparton region, two treatment plants, a northern depot and a rural water office. Water and wastewater operators work a rotating roster with a day shift, an afternoon plant shift and an on-call standby crew for the network and control centre outside hours. Six departments report to the Managing Director: Water Treatment, Wastewater Treatment, Networks and Maintenance, Catchment, Dams and Storages, Control Centre and Water Quality, and Customer and Trade Waste. The control centre monitors every site through the supervisory control and data acquisition system 24 hours a day.

Safe water always

We treat every litre as if our own families will drink it. Critical control points are never bypassed and every exceedance is reported.

Home safe every day

Confined spaces, chemicals, excavations and live traffic are part of our work; permits, gas testing and lookouts are how we go home unharmed.

Custodians of the catchment

We protect the river, the groundwater and the land we return water to, and we account for every megalitre we take and discharge.

Plain and prompt

We tell customers, regulators and each other what is happening in plain language, as soon as we know it.

What we do

Services and operations

To deliver safe drinking water, protect public health and the environment, and keep water flowing to towns and farms every day of the year.

Drinking water treatment and supply

Abstraction, coagulation, clarification, filtration, disinfection and fluoridation of river and groundwater, and delivery through mains, reservoirs and pump stations to eleven towns.

Sewerage collection and wastewater treatment

Gravity and pressure sewer collection, pump stations, activated sludge treatment with nutrient removal, lagoon polishing and biosolids management at the Mooroopna plant.

Recycled water and effluent reuse

Class C recycled water supplied to a dairy pasture irrigation scheme under an environmental licence, with soil, groundwater and effluent monitoring.

Rural irrigation and stock and domestic delivery

Ordered deliveries through a gravity channel network with automated regulators and metered outlets, supporting seasonal allocations and water entitlements.

Trade waste and customer services

Assessment and approval of commercial and industrial trade waste discharges, connection applications, billing enquiries and water efficiency advice.

Catchment, dam and storage operations

Operation and inspection of the raw water storage dam, catchment surveillance, blue-green algae monitoring and flood routing through storages.

Assessment

Eight workplace scenarios

Sign in as a role, read the brief, work through the tasks using the documents and systems, then print an evidence summary for your assessor.

Clients and partners (all fictional)
Riverbend Shire residents and businessesGoulburn Dairy Cooperative (recycled water scheme)Merriwa Holdings food processing plantKialla Fresh Orchards (irrigation)Riverside Regional HospitalNorthern Meats ProcessingRiverbend Shire residents and businessesGoulburn Dairy Cooperative (recycled water scheme)Merriwa Holdings food processing plantKialla Fresh Orchards (irrigation)Riverside Regional HospitalNorthern Meats Processing

Notice board All notices

  • Safety Hypochlorite delivery fill points now locked
    8 September 2026
  • Operations Blue-green algae alert level in the raw water storage
    9 September 2026
  • Safety Confined space rescue exercise, SPS 09
    5 September 2026

Coming up Calendar

  • 11/09Water quality incident exercise: E. coli at R-19
    9:00 am, Control centre, head office
  • 12/09Day shift, Kialla plant, student attached to Tyler Moloney
    6:00 am, Kialla water treatment plant
  • 14/09Spring embankment dam surveillance inspection
    7:00 am, Raw water storage dam
  • 16/09Site induction for new starters and students
    8:30 am, Training room, head office
For trainers and assessors

Mapped to the National Water Training Package

Every scenario lists the current units of competency and qualifications it supports, with assessor notes and a printable evidence summary. Use it with your own assessment tools or ask CAQA for a matched kit.

Training packageNWP release 6.0
Qualifications listed4 of 4 current
Units mapped37
Documents14