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Will your house flood? Floodplain management in Perth

22 August, 2019by urbaqua Leave a comment

When people think of Perth they tend not to think of flooding like that which happened in Brisbane in January 2011. However, many Perthites do live in and around the […]

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climate change, community, environment, flood, modelling, planning

THIS is why we need good drainage

22 February, 2019by urbaqua Leave a comment

On a recent trip over east, one our Urbaqua staff members had a bit of a shock when trying to get to a cool Sydney inner west hipster restaurant – […]

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community, flood, Staff, WSUD

ARR1987 is dead! Long Live ARR2016!

20 July, 2018by urbaqua Leave a comment

Australian Rainfall and Runoff (ARR) is a national guideline used to estimate flood risk  – critical for ensuring we have working drainage infrastructure that doesn’t result in flooding of roads […]

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flood, modelling, technology, training, water resource management

The changing face of rainfall – working with new regional temporal patterns for Australia – ARR 2016

9 March, 2018by Urbaqua_Helen Leave a comment

There has been a gradual uptake of the new design rainfall intensity-frequency-duration (IFD) system provided by the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) since their release in 2016. However, there remains widespread […]

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flood, modelling

Newsflash(flood): Helen on TV talking stormwater

25 August, 2017by urbaqua 1 Comment

If you didn’t catch Today Tonight last week then you missed our very own Helen Brookes, Stormwater WA vice-chair and hydrologist extraordinaire, being interviewed on a story regarding flash flooding […]

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community, environment, Staff

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