Below is a list of Events we have had in the past...
Keeley Park Site Tour
Date: 15th Feb, 2024 - 15th Feb, 2024
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Venue: Keeley Park
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
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Description:
Join fellow stormies on a tour of the Keeley Park High Flow Bioretention System and GPTs in Clayton South, hosted by Alan West, Principal Environment Officer from the City of Kingston, and experienced designers from Ocean Protect.
This unique project involved the installation of a high-flow (Filterra®) bioretention system during 2022 and was landscaped in 2023. This system treats stormwater runoff from a 28-hectare catchment and is understood to be the first of its kind in Australia to use a high-flow system for stormwater harvesting and reuse (to irrigate sports fields).
Council originally installed a (170 m2) traditional bioretention system in 2016 to act as a combined retarding basin, however, it didn’t perform as intended. The preferred solution involved constructing a smaller (51m2) Filterra® System in combination with a separate flood storage basin.
Date
Thursday, 15 February 2024
Time
11.00 am - 12:00 pm
Venue
Keeley Park Main Road, Clayton South 3169
Moonee Ponds Creek Site Tour
Date: 7th Dec, 2023 - 7th Dec, 2023
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Venue: Moonee Ponds Creek
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Description:
Join fellow colleagues on a tour of Moonee Ponds Creek in Oak Park, Strathmore to see the remarkable transformation of a 360m concrete-lined section of the Creek, which is now more than 50 % complete.
The project involved:
- removing concrete walls along both sides of the creek and replacing these with rockwork
- covering the concrete base of the channel with rockwork to create a meandering creek, to slow down flows and give it a more ‘natural’ look and feel
- planting 43,000 native trees and shrubs
- creating new shared paths and a new bridge
- constructing a pond and terracing near Oak Park Reserve.
Rachel Lopes, the Chain of Ponds Collaboration Project Lead will be accompanied by Neil Featonby from Melbourne Water and Frank Kinnersley from the Friends of Moonee Ponds Creek / Moonee Bicycle Users Group. Visitors will learn how the project had come about, the co-design involved, and the challenges of giving the creek a more natural look and feel.
Registration Fees
Member & Non-Member - Complimentary Registration
Important notes:
PPE is required to enter the site (hi-vis vest and closed in shoes)
We suggest bringing along a water bottle and a hat.
Rachel LopesChain of Ponds Collaboration Project Lead
Rachel is an environmental scientist and has a passion for connecting communities to their waterway. She enjoys the challenge of working in multi-stakeholder environments and with an ‘appreciative’ mindset, focusing on strengths, abilities and energy of partners for enduring solutions. |
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Neil FeatonbyReimagining Your Creek, Melbourne Water
Neil Featonby developed and leads the Reimagining Your Creek program for Melbourne Water, which has recently won several awards for excellence in infrastructure and landscape architecture. Neil is a marine biologist who specialised in shark research, but now spends his time transforming underground drains and concrete channels into urban waterways and parks. He’s passionate about using urban design concepts and principles to connect people to water in highly urbanised areas, and tailor unique experiences with nature that improve mental and physical health. |
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Frank KinnersleyMoonee Ponds Creek Frank is a retired mechanical engineer, Friend of Moonee Ponds Creek and recognised by cycling organisations across the country and state for his contribution to cycling. He has been instrumental in achieving better outcomes for cyclists and has actively contributed to the Reimagining Moonee Ponds Creek project, making several suggestions and improvements to the path design. |
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Achieving Flow Targets - Potential End Uses Webinar
Date: 28th Nov, 2023 - 28th Nov, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Venue:
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Description:
The new benchmark for stormwater management in Victoria requires new collaborations, new approaches, new technologies, and ultimately, new end uses for significant volumes of stormwater. Building on the Stormwater Flow
Targets series held in 2023, this webinar will start to explore potential end uses for stormwater, drawing on expertise and case studies from across Victoria and Australia.
Priya Van RynEnvironmental Water Planner, Melbourne Water
Presentation: Shifting Urban Runoff from a Waterway Risk to an Environmental Benefit. Priya’s works at Melbourne Water as an Environmental Water Resource Planner. In this role, Priya collaborates on IWM projects that have potential to return water to the environment. Priya is passionate about protecting local waterways and working for positive outcomes for urbanising landscapes. |
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Jamie LynchPlanning Engineer, Yarra Valley Water
Presentation: Kalkallo Stormwater Harvesting and Reuse Scheme
Jamie is a Civil Engineer in Yarra Valley Water’s Treatment Plant Growth Planning Team.
Jamie has spent over 10 years in the water industry with a broad range of experience across the whole asset lifecycle, including Integrated Water Management. Strategic Asset Planning, Asset Management and construction.
Jamie is responsible for the strategic planning and functional design of new treatment plant infrastructure, which includes the upgrade and re-commissioning of YVWs Kalkallo Stormwater Treatment Plant. |
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Martin HaegePrincipal Environmental Engineer, Premise
Presentation: Orange Stormwater to Potable: Building Urban Water Supply Diversity
Martin is a Principal Environmental Engineer at Premise and is based in Orange, NSW. With more than three decades of experience in consulting, he has collaborated with a wide range of private sector and government clients to develop and implement innovative solutions. Martin worked with Orange City Council to develop the first large scale stormwater harvesting scheme in Australia which intentionally harvests stormwater for addition to drinking water supplies. He remains involved with the ongoing operation and monitoring of the scheme and has developed a significant working knowledge of the issues associated with stormwater harvesting relating to risk management, water quality management and hydrological impacts. |
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Alan DavidsonSenior Associate, Integrated Water, Spiire
Presentation: Centralised Roof Water Harvesting to Provide Stormwater Volume Reduction and Potable Water Supply Diversity
Alan is an Associate Integrated Water engineer with over 14 years’ experience, primarily in the fields of flood risk, hydrology, hydraulics, urban water and waterway management.
His career has spanned a range of geographical locations and environments, including Scotland, Papa New Guinea, North Queensland and Victoria. Alan’s involvement in a diverse range of projects, such as waterway diversion and rehabilitation design, large rural and urban flood studies and urban stormwater management has allowed him to develop a solid and broad understanding of water science and engineering. |
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Brad ClinginAsset Planning Manager, Wannon Water
Brad is an engineer with a Masters in Integrated Water Management. Brad has worked in the water sector with both Wannon Water and Corangamite CMA since 2013. Brad is passionate about agencies working together to achieve great outcomes for IWM, vibrant communities and healthy waterways. |
End of Year Drinks
Date: 23rd Nov, 2023 - 23rd Nov, 2023
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Venue: The Imperial Hotel
Address: 2-8 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000
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Description:
Stormwater Victoria, in conjunction with Clearwater, are pleased to extend an invitation for our members and their guests to join us for the 2023 End of Year Drinks to be held on Thursday, 23rd November. This will be a great opportunity to get our Victoria stormies together and celebrate the year that has been and share our ideas for the year ahead.
We hope that you can join us at The Imperial Hotel on the 23rd of November.
Let's Talk About Erosion & Sediment Control Webinar
Date: 3rd Aug, 2023 - 3rd Aug, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue:
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Description:
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This must-attend Webinar explains why Erosion and Sediment Control (ESC) on construction and building sites is as important as WSUD to protect environmental values and deliver sustainable development outcomes.
We all know the General Environmental Duty (GED) puts the onus on individuals and business to prevent environmental harm before it occurs but what does this look like as practical on-ground ESC solutions?
Hear from experts drawn from research and industry on the latest advancements in ESC policy and best practice from across Australia and how these apply in the Victorian context.
This Webinar is the first of a two-part awareness-raising and knowledge-sharing initiative of the ESC Industry in partnership with Stormwater Victoria. The second part will be a full-day ESC Industry Forum to be held in Melbourne on the 24th August (further details coming shortly).
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2023 Stormwater Victoria Conference
Date: 6th Jun, 2023 - 8th Jun, 2023
Time: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Venue: Mercure Ballarat
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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Victorian Urban Drainage Manual (VUDM) Engagement Session
Date: 16th May, 2023 - 16th May, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue: Online
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Description:
The Victorian Urban Drainage Manual (VUDM) is a much anticipated Stormwater Victoria initiative aimed at consolidating the industry’s knowledge, guidelines and standards on drainage design in to a single “How to” guide in an effort to provide some much needed clarity and support to stormwater professionals in Victoria. This will be an all-encompassing document allowing surface water professionals to follow a step by step drainage design regardless of project size, anywhere in Victoria. It will provide users the relevant drainage requirements including calculating hydrographs, designing conveyance and detention infrastructure and all things WSUD.
We are now well underway with the Framework development but we need your help.
Come along and have your say, ask your questions, provide your expert input and be part of the birth of the first state wide manual in drainage.
Operations and Maintenance Manual Training
Date: 27th Apr, 2023 - 27th Apr, 2023
Time: 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Venue: Knox Club
Address: 480 Boronia Rd, Wantirna South, VIC, 3152
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Description:
Stormwater Victoria invites you to attend the long awaited Operations and Maintenance Manual Workshop will be held on Thursday, 27 April, 2023. This full day workshop focuses on the Operations and Maintenance Guidelines, produced by Stormwater Victoria, that have become the industry standard and reference document for the maintenance of stormwater assets across the country.
The Workshop is aimed at Maintenance Managers and Cleaning Contractors, as well as Council staff involved in the sizing, siting and approval of stormwater treatment measures.
Spaces are limited, so register today to avoid disappointment.
Registration Fees
Member Registration with Manual - $595.00
Member Registration Only (2nd person) $495.00
Non Member Registration with Manual - $795.00
Non Member Registration Only - $695.00
Please note: Registration fees include full day catering.
Time
8:30am - 4:00pm
Venue
Knox Club
480 Boronia Rd, Wantirna South
Presenter
Murray Powell
Optimal Stormwater/Stormwater NSW
Flood Inquiry Members Only Meeting
Date: 20th Apr, 2023 - 20th Apr, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Venue: Online
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Description:
This is a Member ONLY Meeting to discuss the key aspects of the inquiry and gather feedback from our members to help inform the Stormwater Victoria submission.
The Legislative Council Environment and Planning Committee will investigate Victoria’s preparedness for, and response to Victoria’s major flooding event of October 2022. The Committee are seeking submissions, and have invited Stormwater Victoria to express their views via a submission. As part of Stormwater Victoria’s core role in policy and advocacy, the Association we will be making a submission on behalf of our membership and we are seeking input from our members in developing our submission.
The inquiry will look into the flood event as a whole and the areas affected, and consider factors such as what caused or contributed to the Flood Event; emergency services; government policy; flood mitigation strategies; the Flemington Racecourse flood wall; and the Victoria planning framework.
Key aspects we are invited to comment on include the implementation and effectiveness of the 2016 Victorian Floodplain Management Strategy in relation to the flood event, and the implications for future planning decisions, including how the Victorian planning framework can ensure climate mitigation is considered in future planning decisions. Further information on the scope is available at : https://new.parliament.vic.gov.au/floodinquiry
Flow Targets: Webinar 2
Date: 4th Apr, 2023 - 4th Apr, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue: Online
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Description:
Flow Targets: Breakfast Session
Date: 15th Mar, 2023 - 15th Mar, 2023
Time: 7:30 am - 9:30 am
Venue: The Victoria Hotel
Address: 215 Little Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000
Ticket URL: More Info
Description:
Flow Targets: Webinar 1
Date: 23rd Feb, 2023 - 23rd Feb, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue: Online
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Description:
Operations and Maintenance Manual Workshop
Date: 22nd Nov, 2022 - 22nd Nov, 2022
Time: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Venue: Knox Club
Address: 480 Boronia Road
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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Description:
Stormwater Victoria is pleased to make available to stormwater stakeholders across the state, the 'Guidelines for the Maintenance of Stormwater Treatment Measures'. This program provides cleaning and maintenance guidelines for your stormwater assets. The manual can be purchased as a standalone document or can be purchased in conjunction with a full day training workshop. The workshop is aimed at maintenance managers and cleaning contractors, as well as council staff involved in the sizing, siting and approval of stormwater treatment measures. These guidelines have become the industry standard, and reference document, for the maintenance of stormwater assets.
The next training session will be held on Tuesday, 22nd November 2022 at the Knox Club. If you plan to register for the workshop, spaces are strictly limited to a maximum of 25 attendees.
2022 State Conference
Date: 6th Jun, 2022 - 8th Jun, 2022
Time: 5:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Venue: Novotel Geelong
Address: 10-14 Eastern Beach Road
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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Description:
Stormwater Victoria will be holding their 2022 Conference at the Novotel Geelong from the 6th - 8th June, 2022. For further information please visit the Conference website at: https://gems.eventsair.com/stormwater-victoria-conference-2022/
Integrated Water Management in Practice: May / July 2022
Date: 10th May, 2022 - 24th May, 2022
Time:
Venue: Online
Organiser: Clearwater
Phone: 9679 7711
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Description:
Clearwater is excited to announce a second delivery of IWM in practice in partnership with the International WaterCentre (IWC).
The online session series (10, 17, 24 May) led by Dr. Brian S. McIntosh from the IWC will focus on translating principles into practice and explore how leadership can play a key role in enabling IWM solutions to come to life.
DELWP will provide and update on the progress of Water for Victoria IWM Forums, and guest case study presenters will showcase Victorian IWM projects being delivered on ground.
The online training will be followed by an in-person workshop on 12 July to consolidate learnings, access mentor support and network with peers.
Secure your spot now for this stimulating and interactive learning journey.
Further information and registration details can be found on the Clearwater website. https://www.clearwatervic.com.au/events-and-training/
Operations and Maintenance Manual Workshop
Date: 27th Apr, 2022 - 27th Apr, 2022
Time: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Venue: To be advised
Address: To be advised
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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Description:
Stormwater Victoria Guidelines for Maintenance of Stormwater Treatment Measures
Stormwater quality improvement measures are an essential component of our stormwater infrastructure to protect environmental, recreational and economic values of our waterways. The Guidelines will assist Asset Managers to plan, tender and implement routine maintenance for stormwater treatment measures. It will also provide guidance to Cleaning Contractors on how to maintain each type of stormwater treatment measure. Concise explanations of maintenance tasks for each stormwater measure are provided.
The manual can be purchased as a standalone document or can be purchased in conjunction with the full-day training workshops. The next training workshop will be held on Wednesday 27 April, 2022.
Workshop Overview
The workshop is aimed at Maintenance Managers and Cleaning Contractors, as well as Council staff involved in the sizing, siting and approval of stormwater treatment measures. This is a new course developed by Stormwater NSW
The workshop focuses on the new O+M Guidelines, produced by Stormwater Victoria, that will become the industry standard and reference document for the Maintenance of Stormwater assets.
Topics to be covered include:
- An introduction to the types of treatments, their classifications and purposes
- An introduction to the types of GPTs and their functionality (if you understand how they work, then you’ll understand how this impacts cleaning)
- The reality of monitoring, regular cleaning, and annual/comprehensive cleaning
- Quick coverage of 90% of proprietary devices
- A more detailed focus on the 4 devices that have 90% of the market
- Cleaning specifications for these – to include in tenders, and be used on the ground
- Secondary treatment/Green treatments – in summary only
- Dewatering – a problem for every site
- Field validation of performance, cleaning results
- GPT auditing and WSUD auditing
- Costing – how much should cleaning cost
- Budgeting and bean counters – how to get the money to do it right
- Results, reports and record keeping – why
- Tips for improving device performance – get better bang for your buck
The presenter for this workshop will be Murray Powell, who is secretary of Stormwater NSW, one of the document authors and General Manager of Optimal Stormwater who are one of the leaders in design/construction/auditing/rectification of stormwater treatment devices.
Spaces are limited at these workshops to a maximum of 25 delegates.
To register for the April Workshop or to purchase the manual: https://gems.eventsair.com/stormwater-vic-operations-and-maintenance-manual-training/omrego/Site/Register.
Understanding and applying Victoria's stormwater planning requirements
Date: 7th Apr, 2022 - 7th Apr, 2022
Time: 10:00 am - 3:30 pm
Venue: Online - Zoom
Organiser: Clearwater
Phone: 03 9679 7711
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Description:
Clearwater is currently taking registrations for Understanding and applying Victoria’s stormwater planning requirements training 7 April
This 5 hour training will give town planners, local government planning and stormwater engineers a practical understanding of Victoria’s stormwater planning requirements. This delivery will focus on regional context and case studies, but is relevant to all practitioners working with the Victoria Planning Provisions. The course is delivered by expert presenters Sara Lloyd [E2 Design Lab] and Kate Matthews [Tract Consulting] in partnership with Mandy Bolton [Senior Policy Advisor] from DELWP.
Register via https://www.clearwatervic.com.au/events-and-training/understanding-and-applying-victorias-stormwater-planning-requirements-20220407.php
Previous course attendee testimonials:
“Thankyou for hosting another session, this training is very helpful for us council planners.”
“Very useful information, presented well with a realistic, pragmatic approach.”
Melbourne Waters MUSIC Guidelines
Date: 1st Apr, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm
Venue: Webinar
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Description:
Melbourne Water’s MUSIC Guidelines are currently being reviewed and updated. This session, brought to you by Stormwater Victoria, will provide an opportunity for Melbourne Water along with consultants E2Designlab to share what is being planned for the update and allow members to engage in a Q&A session before circulation of the new guidelines for industry feedback.
The session will be hosted and facilitated by Tracey Pham from the Stormwater Victoria team.
This session for Stormwater Victoria Members will cover:
- Purpose of the update
- What is new
- What is coming
- Implication of updates for the industry
Speaker - Birgit Jordan
Birgit is a Water Management Engineer currently holding a stormwater technical and policy advisory role at Melbourne Water. Drawing upon 30 years’ experience in the private and public water sector in Australia and Germany, Birgit provides expertise across waterway, stormwater, sewage and drinking water management including Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) and Integrated Water Management (IWM), from design and construction to capacity building, strategic and catchment planning and policy development.
Speaker - Dale Browne
Speaker - Stephanie Brown
Steph is an environmental engineer who is passionate about catchments and communities and dedicated to the protection of Australian waterways. Steph is known for her breadth of technical skills, strategic thinking, and creative communication style which brings a multidimensional approach to her work. She has worked on numerous award-winning projects, including the Scrubby Creek Catchment Recovery Plan and the Small Creek Transformation. Taking on broad and flexible roles to meet the project needs, her inputs range from purely technical to leading the full delivery of critical communication pieces. Steph has worked on major integrated water management strategies, green infrastructure guidelines, and catchment management studies. Currently studying a Master of Science at the University of Melbourne, she is also researching ecosystem processes in 35 headwater streams across Melbourne.
Registration
Register online here...
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__D0SJdgWRxScnsmQxjrkdw
Introduction to Stormwater Bioretention Design
Date: 22nd Mar, 2022 - 24th Mar, 2022
Time: 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Venue: Online
Address: Zoom Meeting
Organiser: Clearwater
Phone: 03 9679 7711
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Description:
*New Clearwater training
Does your role require you to work on stormwater bioretention (raingarden) design, approval or project management?
Clearwater’s introductory training will cover the fundamentals of bioretention design, including the function and objectives of these assets, considerations relating to design and asset lifecycle, and the key steps in the bioretention design process. Suitable for engineers, planners, architects, builders, landscape designers, site supervisors, asset managers, project managers and environment officers.
Secure your spot now for this online course delivered by expert presenters Alex Brown (Spiire Consulting) and Jamie Comley (Jamie Comley Environmental Consulting )
Further information and registration details can be found on the Clearwater website. https://www.clearwatervic.com.au/events-and-training/
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franc.sydney
Date: 8th Nov, 2021 - 9th Nov, 2021
Time: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Venue: Dockside Sydney and Virtual
Address: 2 Wheat Road, Sydney
Organiser: Stormwater NSW in conjunction with Stormwater Queensland, Stormwater Victoria, the Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Georges Riverkeeper, Cooks River Alliance and the Parramatta River Catchment Group
Phone: GEMS Event Management 02 9744 5252
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Register Now for franc.sydney
Stormwater NSW have reimagined their state conference and the inaugural franc.sydney conference will be held at on the 8th and 9th November at Dockside Darling Harbour.
With the support of Stormwater Queensland, Stormwater Victoria, the Sydney Institute of Marine Science, the Parramatta River Catchment Group, the Cooks River Alliance and the Georges Riverkeeper, this conference aims to join stakeholders in the urban water management sector across multiple disciplines to become more future-focused, resilient, adaptive and connected.
Our Keynote Speakers at franc.sydney are:
· Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons, Resilience NSW · Gary Jubelin, former NSW Police Detective Chief Inspector · Zali Steggall OAM, Independent Federal Member for Warringah · Professor Thomas Astell-Burt, University of Wollongong · Prof Kenneth Leung, City University of Hong Kong · Distinguished Prof Lesley Hughes, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
Invited speakers and panelists include:
· Rosie Wheen, CEO, WaterAid Australia · Chris Quin, Resilient Projects · Dr Katherine Dafforn, Macquarie University · Professor Holger Maier, The University of Adelaide · Associate Professor Gary Sheridan, The University of Melbourne · Dr Jocelyn Dela-Cruz, NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment · Associate Professor Will Glamore, Water Research Laboratory, UNSW · Dr Ana Bugnot, The University of Sydney · Keysha Milenkovic, Blacktown City Council · Prue Tucker, Midcoast Council · Dr Britta Denise Hardesty, CSIRO
To register to attend or to submit a presentation abstract, visit www.franc.sydney
franc.sydney is 'Staying the Course'
The inaugural franc.sydney conference will aim to create a place where industry professionals, community members and key stakeholders can come together to collaborate, share knowledge, network and learn together. It will provide an opportunity for attendees to connect, discover and upskill and to be empowered to 'stay the course'.
What is franc?
Check out our website to find out more about this new initiative at franc.sydney |
Waste Tyre Permeable Pavements: From Theory and Laboratory Development to Large Scale Field Trial
Date: 23rd Sep, 2021 - 23rd Sep, 2021
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue: Online, Zoom
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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Description:
Urbanisation generates a change in land use, as natural landscapes are gradually replaced with impermeable built environment. In Victoria, pavements contribute approximately up to 70% of the impermeable surfaces in urban catchments. The impermeable surfaces impact the hydrological conditions of urban catchments, creating implications for stormwater management. This shift from “naturally-permeable” to “impervious” surfaces results in an increase in the surface run-off during rainfalls, resulting in an increase in flash flooding.
Permeable pavements are among potential solutions to reduce the amount of surface run-off and the risk of flash floods; however, the main barriers in their uptake is their perceived lack of capacity to perform under traffic loads, rate of infiltration, and perceived reduction in permeability over time caused by clogging. This presentation reports on development of a new “waste tyre permeable pavement” developed at The University of Melbourne. The hydro-mechanical performance of a large-scale trial site constructed using different design formulations in the City of Mitcham, South Australia is reported here reflecting on measurements obtained using different set of instrumentation. Some new examples of recent trials in Victoria will also be presented.
This presentation will go through design principles, construction process, mechanical and storm-water management monitoring regime, monitoring results and lessons learnt from this trial.
This webinar is sponsored by Porous Lane.
Urban Streamflow Impact Assessment (USIA): Informing planning to protect waterway values
Date: 12th Aug, 2021 - 12th Aug, 2021
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue: Online
Address: Zoom
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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Description:
How do we inform planners, stormwater designers and engineers, waterway managers, and decision makers to ensure urban development doesn’t negatively impact waterways?
We need to formalise our approaches because we know that excess stormwater runoff leads to the urban stream syndrome, a worldwide phenomenon that degrades the physical, ecological and social values of waterways.
In addition, wastewater treatment plants can significantly increase discharge to waterways. To address this increase in flow volume, and altered flow pattern, requires evaluation and amelioration of streamflow impacts. Drawing upon non-urban analogues the development of the Urban Streamflow Impact Assessment (USIA) was led by Streamology with CTEnvironmental, Melbourne University and Sydney Water.
USIA enables explicit links to be made between stormwater runoff characteristics and waterway values (social, ecological and geomorphic), through streamflow metrics. USIA has been predominantly applied in the rapidly urbanising western Sydney to inform future development scenarios, including ‘business-as-usual’ relative to ambitious Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD), and includes outputs such as stormwater targets and risk matrices.
USIA can be applied across urbanising and urban catchments to provide explicit input to controls that inform urban planning and drainage design, i.e. what flows to keep out of the waterway. Most recently, the USIA method won the ‘research and innovation’ award with both Stormwater Victoria and Stormwater NSW, and was the runner up at the Stormwater Australia awards.
This webinar is sponsored by Streamology.
Register via https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C7krogjiTz-YIhdGNIHz-g
2021 Stormwater National Awards for Excellence
Date: 14th Apr, 2021 - 14th Apr, 2021
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Venue: City of Melbourne Bowls Club
Address: Flagstaff Gardens, Dudley St, West Melbourne VIC 3003
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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Description:
2021 National Awards for Excellence
Social Event
Wednesday14 April 2021
6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
City of Melbourne Bowls Club
Flagstaff Gardens, Dudley Street West Melbourne
Stormwater Victoria is pleased to invite you to join us and the Victorian nominees, for a Social Event to coincide with the on-line presentation of the 2021, Stormwater National, Awards for Excellence.
This is a casual event with snacks provided and drinks available for individuals to purchase at bar prices.
Cost is $35 per-person to cover venue booking fee and catering
Booking is essential as numbers are limited!
Stormwater 2021 National Conference
Date: 13th Apr, 2021 - 16th Apr, 2021
Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Venue: Virtual
Organiser: Stormwater Australia
Phone: +61 2 9744 5252
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New Frontiers for Stormwater: Into the Next Decade
On behalf of Stormwater Australia and the Conference Working Group, we invite you to join us at STORMWATER 2021, the 6th National Conference on Urban Water Management convened by Stormwater Australia, to be held virtually from Tuesday, 13th to Friday, 16th April 2021.
With over 300 delegates anticipated, it will be the one stop shop for industry professionals looking to keep abreast of contemporary practice, share ideas with their peers and make new contacts that can be invaluable in their everyday work.
The 2021 Conference theme is: New Frontiers for Stormwater – Into The Next Decade.
We face profound challenges to manage our co-dependent urban and rural areas into the next decade. Population growth and climate change is driving rapid changes to the natural and human environment including declining waterway health and increasing flood risks. These challenges involve behaviours, policy settings and society expectations in linked economic, social and environmental systems. A systems approach is needed to transform our science, governance, practice, policy and culture to resolve these continually evolving problems and understand the trade-offs. How can we explain these complex challenges to our colleagues and instigate change within society?
Does increased urban density provide sustainable outcomes or result in declining liveability? Our knowledge, experience and culture are also rapidly evolving into the next decade. Perhaps these evolving opportunities will meet to challenges of the next decade and transform our urban and rural areas. How will this happen? The evolution of systems thinking, recognition of circular economies and the connectivity of scales, increased diversity, better connected networks of people, digital twins and legacy knowledge from our first peoples are the new frontiers. This might influence local actions to deliver global benefits to people and ecosystems.
As with previous years, we will be holding our National Excellence Awards at the Conference Dinner, and will be rounding the event program with a number of social and networking events.
We look forward to working together with all of you "into the next decade". See you virtually in April 2021!
Webinar: Victorian Urban Stormwater Offsets: Council Implementation, Best-practices and Lessons Learned
Date: 18th Feb, 2021 - 18th Feb, 2021
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue: Online Zoom
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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This webinar will provide a quick overview of what stormwater offset schemes are, outlines some benefits of setting up a scheme, and introduces out how Victorian Councils can go about setting a stormwater offset scheme up.
The quick overview will then be followed by a 30 minute QA and lessons learned session with people who have led the implementation of stormwater offsets at their Councils: including Kingston City Council, Moonee Valley City Council, Darebin and Mornington Peninsula Shire Council.
Speaker:
Jeremy Cheesman
This webinar will provide a quick overview of what stormwater offset schemes are, outlines some benefits of setting up a scheme, and introduces out how Victorian Councils can go about setting a stormwater offset scheme up.
The quick overview will then be followed by a 30 minute QA and lessons learned session with people who have led the implementation of stormwater offsets at their Councils: including Kingston City Council, Moonee Valley City Council, Darebin and Mornington Peninsula Shire Council.
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2021 Victorian Urban Stormwater Offsets: Council Implementation, Best-practices and Lessons Learned webinar
Date: 18th Feb, 2021 - 18th Feb, 2021
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This webinar will provide a quick overview of what stormwater offset schemes are, outlines some benefits of setting up a scheme, and introduces out how Victorian Councils can go about setting a stormwater offset scheme up.
The quick overview will then be followed by a 30 minute QA and lessons learned session with people who have led the implementation of stormwater offsets at their Councils: including Kingston City Council, Moonee Valley City Council, Darebin and Mornington Peninsula Shire Council.
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Presentation
Decoupling Increase in Precipitation Extremes From the Changes in Urban Stormwater Flooding
Date: 8th Dec, 2020 - 8th Dec, 2020
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue: Online
Address: Online
Organiser: Stormwater NSW
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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It is well accepted that warmer temperatures lead to greater moisture holding capacity for the atmosphere, resulting in bigger downpours, creating larger design precipitation intensities and possibly less secure flood infrastructure especially in urban areas. What is less appreciated is the importance pre-storm conditions have on urban stormwater infrastructure, especially in locations that contain significant water bodies. This presentation uses four urban case studies from the United States, Australia and Thailand to illustrate the differing impacts of warming on urban flood security. Each of these locations pose unique modelling challenges, given the near-continuous change urban stormwater networks undergo. It is shown that in spite of this change, there is clear evidence that urban flood security is compromised as a result of rise in temperature, a trend that will only worsen as time goes on.
Flood Resilience in the Netherlands - International Keynote Showcase
Date: 26th Nov, 2020 - 26th Nov, 2020
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue: Online
Address: Zoom Webinar
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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Registration Fees
Member rates
Full Access - $150
Per Webinar - $50
Non Member Rates
Full Access - $190
Per Webinar - $65
Event Overview
The showcase is capped off with a presentation by Prof. Chris Zevenbergen on Flood Resilience of Urban Systems in The Netherlands. He discusses innovative concepts used to mitigate urban flood and methods to flood-proof building designs that have been trialled in The Netherlands.
Many countries are currently revisiting their flood (disaster) risk management strategy. There is a shift in focus from reacting to and preparing for singular, extreme events to (also) anticipating trends in these type of events. This long-term focus is inherently coupled with large uncertainties about how physical (climate change) and economic conditions will change, what research and innovation will bring, how societal preferences will develop etc. Moreover, long lead times of flood protection infrastructure and city transformations are prompting governments to take a long-term horizon. Governments are increasingly aware of these implications to be relevant for decisions they make today.
Speaker
Prof Chris Zevenbergen, Water Engineering Department of IHE Delft
Chris Zevenbergen is professor at the Water Engineering Department of IHE Delft and at the TuDelft, The Netherlands. He is a visiting professor at the Southeast University (SEU) and at the North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power (NCWU), China. He has published/edited five books and more than 150 scientific publications in the field of environmental engineering and urban flood management. Currently, he is Head of the Flood Resilience Chair Group (FRG) of IHE Delft. He participates/has participated in various national and international advisory boards of governmental and scientific institutions and programs related to climate adaptation, resilience and urban planning (such as IPCC EM Infra, Rotterdam Climate Proof, Environmental Science Group Wageningen, iBuild, DLR Future Mega Cities, EPSRC, the Dutch Knowledge for Climate Program).
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Draft Urban Stormwater Management Guidance Feedback Forum
Date: 24th Nov, 2020
Time: 10:30 am - 11:00 am
Venue: Online Zoom
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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The EPA recently released the Draft ‘Urban Stormwater Management Guidance’ for industry feedback. The draft guidance includes new performance objectives for stormwater flows and presents a significant shift for how we work together to manage stormwater and protect our waterways. As part of Stormwater Victoria’s core role in policy and advocacy, we will be making a submission on behalf of our membership and we want to hear from you! Submissions are due on 16 December. We would like to invite you to a Member Event to be held on Tuesday, 24th November at 10.30 am. The purpose of this short, informal meeting is to discuss the guidance document so that we can get feedback from our members to and help to inform the Stormwater Victoria our submission.
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Planning for Sustainability - International Keynote Showcase
Date: 19th Nov, 2020 - 19th Nov, 2020
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue: Online
Address: Zoom Webinar
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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Registration FeesMember rates Full Access - $150 Non Member Rates Full Access - $190 Event OverviewFor years Portland, Oregon had an incentive program to encourage the use of green roof technology to manage stormwater in the downtown. In 2018, ecoroofs became a requirement. Why did Portland move to a requirement instead of an incentive? And how did they get a requirement approved? In the third week of the showcase, Mindy Brooks presents insights from City of Portland's "Central City 2035". This is the city's comprehensive plan for creating new guiding policies and urban design for the Central City and the Willamette Riverfront area. The session will examine how urban planning and design is used to foster creativity, innovation and productivity. Mindy Brooks Experienced City Planner who has worked at the City of Portland for over 15 years. Speaker
Mindy has worked for the City of Portland since 1999, first as an Environmental Technician then as a City Planner. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science from Washington State University and Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree from Portland State University. She has managed environmental program updates for major comprehensive plans including Airport Futures, a policy and zoning update for the Portland International Airport and surrounding industrial lands, and Central City 2035, a policy and zoning update Portland’s downtown and Willamette River. In her free time she likes to hike around Mount Rainer and the Goat Rocks wilderness and is an avid skier in the winter. Sponsored By
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Mindy Brooks, City of Portland (USA)Exploring Green Roofs in Europe - International Keynote Showcase
Date: 12th Nov, 2020 - 12th Nov, 2020
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue: Online
Address: Zoom Webinar
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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Registration Fees
Member rates
Full Access - $150
Per Webinar - $50
Non Member Rates
Full Access - $190
Per Webinar - $65
Event Overview
In the second week, Dusty Gedge brings to Victoria the lessons learnt on promoting Green Roofs around Europe. He speaks on the successes he’s experienced in the adoption of green roofs, and discusses the challenges the continent faces in the future. Dusty is the current President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations (EFB) and Founder of Livingroofs.org. Dusty is a recognised authority, designer, consultant and public speaker on green roofs. He has worked on GI (Green Infrastructure) Projects in the UK for the last 17 years.
Green Roof policy approaches vary across Europe depending on the planning system. Take London as a starting point this presentation will provide an overview of how selective cities across the continent take forward the delivery of green roofs. The talk will also cover design approaches to biodiversity biosolar (solar green roofs) and how creation of wetland green roofs have potential for storing rainwater.
Speaker
Dusty Gedge, European Federation of Green Roof Associations
Dusty is a green infrastructure consultant working in London, UK and Europe. He is the current President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations (EFB) and founder of Livingroofs.org.
Though he has a particular interest in biodiversity and urban nature, his work in the built environment is focused on climate resilience and the promotion of greener cities through multifunctional green infrastructure. He has recently been an external advisor to the Greening Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2030 project.
A recognised designer, technical and policy advisor on green roofs and urban green infrastructure., has worked on GI Projects in the UK for the last 20 years. Some of these are recognised as seminal projects, especially in London through his consultancy Qirm the Green Infrastructure Consultancy [GIC]. He is currently working on a number of design projects to deliver wetland green roofs and is part of the team working on Blue roof guidance for CIRIA.
He also co-wrote the online small-scale green roof guide, with John Little www.greenrooftraining.com
He has also a published author and has been instrumental in writing strategic reports on green roofs and green infrastructure, the most recent of which is the new London green roof report.
Dusty has also been a TV presenter and is a recognised speaker at conferences and events around the world.
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Site Tour Melbourne Aiport IWM Scheme: Lessons learnt 5 years on
Date: 10th Nov, 2020 - 10th Nov, 2020
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Venue: Online Zoom
Organiser: Clearwater Victoria
Phone: 9679 7711
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Join Leigh Holmes from Spiire Consulting and Clearwater for an online live site visit to the Melbourne Airport Integrated Water Management (IWM) project in Essendon. This large scale treatment and recycling scheme has been operating since 2016. The project boasts a treated stormwater reuse capacity of over 130 megalitres per year for use at Melbourne Airport and surrounds. Leigh will present on the evolution of the project, the lessons learnt and demonstrate monitoring technology and site features on location.
Register now from the Clearwater training and events page.
https://www.clearwatervic.com.au/events-and-training/melbourne-airport-scheme-lessons-learnt-5-years-on-20201110.php
City Shaping in a Post COVID World - International Keynote Showcase
Date: 5th Nov, 2020 - 5th Nov, 2020
Time: 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Venue: Online
Address: Zoom Webinar
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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Registration Fees
Member rates
Full Access - $150
Per Webinar - $50
Non Member Rates
Full Access - $190
Per Webinar - $65
Event Overview
The series kicks off starting at home in Melbourne, and examines the liveability, city shaping in a post-covid world presented by Dr Melanie Davern from RMIT University. Dr Melanie Davern is a Senior Research Fellow, Director of the Australian Urban Observatory and CoDirector of the Healthy Liveable Cities Group within the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University. Her research interests focus on liveability, community and individual wellbeing with specific expertise in the development and use of indicators as a measurement tool for policy development, program evaluation and community engagement.
In this week’s session, we will also meet with Dr Sivajanani Sivarajah from Department of Architectural Science, Ryerson University to see how cities in Canada can provide accessible green space into the future. Dr. Janani Sivarajah is an urban forestry, urban greening, and plant biology researcher, educator, and consultant. Her transdisciplinary research explores the environmental services of urban trees for human well-being, including UV protection and mediation of ultraviolet exposure by urban trees.
We will discuss policies and approaches that are required in both countries to improve landscape design and move us beyond reactively adding green space to existing grey infrastructure.
Speakers
Dr Melanie Davern, RMIT University
Dr Melanie Davern interests and passion are in policy focused research with specific expertise in the development and application of population based indicators of wellbeing at the community level (community indicators) and the individual level (subjective wellbeing) within Australia and internationally.
She has extensive expertise in the development and construction of community wellbeing indicators, worked closely with a range of government and community partners and is passionate about using data as a catalyst for action.
Dr Janani Sivarajah, Brock University
Dr. Janani Sivarajah is an urban forestry and greening researcher, educator, and consultant. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University and Vineland Research and Innovation Centre. She has a Master of Forest Conservation and Ph.D. in Forestry from the University of Toronto. Her transdisciplinary research explores the ecosystem services of urban trees and public greenspaces, and finds greening solutions to improve the socio-ecological resilience of cities. She is particularly interested in building multifunctional landscapes and proposing nature-based solutions to global environmental challenges (e.g., climate change, heatwaves). Her work has found direct and relevant applications in both public health and environmental fields. She is the President of the Ontario Urban Forest Council, Research Associate at the Department of Architectural Science, Ryerson University, and member of the Ontario Professional Foresters Association and the City of Toronto's Shade Policy Steering Committee. She also lectures at Daniel’s Institute of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Toronto. She enjoys public engagement, science communication, and hiking through the woods.
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Four Key Leadership Takeaway Messages Webinar
Date: 22nd Oct, 2020
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue: Online Zoom
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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In this webinar, Celine will be sharing key learnings and tools from the 9-month award winning Water Leadership Program from the International Water Centre that she recently completed. As a mum of two young children, partner and group manager, she like many others is navigating challenging situations and is needing to develop the skills and behaviours to lead positive changes in her environment. Much like the pandemic health crisis that we are finding ourselves in, the challenges in advancing integrated water management projects requires leadership skills and behaviours from individuals to exert influence and positive changes.
Speaker
Celine Marchenay - Water Technology
Celine is an environmental engineer with over 10 years’ experience in the water industry. She migrated to Australia from France in 2006 looking for a safer and growing environment to develop herself professionally and personally. She started settling and drawing her first connections in Hervey Bay (QLD) for a couple of years working for a local council to improve the water quality of treated effluent ponds.
She then relocated to Melbourne where the climate and culture aligned closer to what she loves and grew up with. Celine started a family and continued to grow her technical skills in computer modelling by assisting water corporations and local councils in operating and planning for the future of potable and sewer networks considering population growth and aging infrastructure. Over the last eight years, Celine has been working at Water Technology as part of the Integrated Stormwater Management group that she now leads, delivering surface water management strategies to secure the health and safety of the community and environment that we live in.
Celine’s professional experience within various areas of the water industry gives her an understanding of the constraints and challenges the different water beneficiaries and managers are facing in planning and managing for the future.
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SOLD OUT Webinar: WSUD Audit, Maintenance and Rectification Insights for Assets 5-15 Years Old
Date: 17th Sep, 2020
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue: Online
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria & Stormwater Queensland
Phone: +61 02 9744 5252
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This seminar will cover a range of design and construction suggestions gleaned from years of observation and auditing systems, and more recently of maintaining and rectifying raingardens, tree pits and biofilters as part of stormwater harvesting systems. Over the last two years, as director of the new WSUD maintenance company, Wave Maintenance based in Melbourne, Ralf Pfleiderer has been getting up close and personal with mainly assets, doing monthly and quarterly cleaning. This gives you a great insight into how quickly inlets block and sediment accumulates. Over the last two months Wave Maintenance have also rectified over 60 assets ranging in design styles, ages, catchments types and maintenance regimes. The seminar will present aspects that make maintenance easy (and therefore the assets perform well), what designs reduce failure and blockages and what not to do again in the future.
Smart Technology: Talking Tanks for Water Conservation, Flood Management and Environmental Baseflow Webinar
Date: 16th Jul, 2020 - 16th Jul, 2020
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue: Online
Address: Zoom Webinar
Organiser: Stormwater Victoria
Phone: 02 9744 5252
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Stormwater Victoria is pleased to announce the launch of their latest webinar Smart Technology: Talking Tanks for Water Conservation, Flood Management and Environmental Baseflow to be held on Thursday, 16th July 2021 proudly sponsored by iota.
This webinar will provide an overview of how some Victorian councils are using smart technology in 2020, focusing on Smart Tanks and how they can be used to address urban flooding.
Join David Bergman, Research and Development Manager from South East Water who will provide an overview on talking tanks technology and how it’s used in the Aquarevo development, planned use for flood mitigation by Knox City Council and in Yarra Ranges for provision of baseflow to Monbulk creek.
Speakers
Dr David Bergman, South East Water
Dr David Bergman is Research and Development Manager with South East Water, a Water Utility in Victoria, Australia. David has a PhD in Chemistry and has worked in a diverse range of organisations and industries – with extensive experience in product development in highly commercial environments from chemicals to detergents, food and now water and wastewater.
David has led teams to deliver major business transformations, cost improvements and new product launches. David also works with major universities, manages South East Water's Intellectual Property portfolio and works extensively with their commercial subsidiary iota to bring innovations to a broader market.
David has led the technical deliverables of Aquarevo and his interests include alternative water, resource recovery, solar energy options, and development of digital systems.
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Alma Park Stormwater Harvesting Online Site Visit
Date: 14th Jul, 2020 - 14th Jul, 2020
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 pm
Venue: Online Zoom
Organiser: Clearwater Victoria
Phone: 9679 7711
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Join presenters from the City of Port Phillip and E2 Design for Clearwater online site to view the recently completed Alma Park Stormwater Harvesting Project in ST Kilda East. Presenters will be live onsite to tour / demonstrate site features and answer questions. Presenters will candidly discuss project history, design, construction and handover and stakeholder consultation.
Register or find out more via Clearwater Training and Events Page