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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

A Smart show(off) – Wharf St Smart Park revealed!

2 August, 2019by urbaqua Leave a comment

Happy Friday everyone! As summarised in our previous blog article, the City of Canning and Water Corporation, together with yours truly and others* are starting to make headway on the Wharf St […]

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community, Smart cities, technology, urbaqua projects, Water

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

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

Replenishing Perth’s Ramsar lakes – a partnership project

1 December, 2017by urbaqua 3 Comments

As a newly minted not-for-profit, one of Urbaqua‘s first partnership projects this year has been to scope options for the replenishment of one of the Perth’s prime Ramsar wetlands: Forrestdale […]

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environment, urbaqua projects, water resource management

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

UNDO-ing stormwater in WA!

3 August, 2016by urbaqua 1 Comment

There have been many exciting developments afoot recently in Western Australia’s Department of Water. The first of which was the official launch of the Department’s UNDO tool: Urban Nutrient Decision Outcomes. The […]

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planning, technology, Uncategorized, water resource management, WSUD

#stormwater16

27 May, 2016by urbaqua Leave a comment

Essential Environmental partner and all round expert hydrologist Helen Brookes will be presenting at Stormwater Australia‘s 4th National Conference: STORMWATER 2016, to be held between 29th August – 2nd September […]

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conference, planning, water resource management, WSUD

Drainage & densification – IPWEA 2016

8 March, 2016by urbaqua Leave a comment

The annual State Institute of Public Works Engineering Australiasia (IPWEA) conference is on this week (9th – 11th March 2016, at the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle) and the eminent Helen […]

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conference, essential projects, recognition, water resource management

Double whammy: plaudits for water champions of WA

30 November, 2015by urbaqua Leave a comment

It’s been a huge week for the WA water industry as plaudits were handed out at the recent Stormwater Industry Association awards night (17th November 2015) AND the Australian Water Association […]

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essential projects, recognition

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