Albury Council has been told the project for Mountain H2O, of Kancoona, will create 20 jobs, though there could be more in time.

Mountain H2O bottles water at Kancoona, south-east of Dederang, from a water reserve free of external pollutants and has a warehouse and distribution centre depot at Fallon Street in North Albury.

Its bottling process involves filtration, ultra-violet sterilisation and ozonation to ensure the purity of the water is maintained.

The water company, which was established in 2000, recently abandoned plans to relocate the bottling plant from Kancoona to the vacant Tobacco Co-operative of Victoria shed at Myrtleford.

Managing director Steven Pitts said yesterday he did not wish to comment while the matter was under council consideration.

The proposed factory site is part of Albury-Wodonga’s biggest and most modern mega warehouse in private ownership.

Colin Joss & Co invested $12 million in buying and converting part of the former spinning and weaving mill into what is an enormous 24-hour operation for Joss Distribution, facing the Hume Freeway.

Joss Construction had built the 25,000sq m mill for Macquarie Textiles in 1995 and purchased it in 2006, leaving the textile company to consolidate in other buildings on Schubach Street.

Joss Construction proposes to undertake a $300,000 refurbishment of the section needed for Mountain H20, mainly to provide a two-storey office section fronting East Street.

Council permission for a change of use from warehousing to manufacturing is needed for the factory to go ahead.

Joss Group has previously been granted a change of use from manufacturing to warehousing.