Will your house flood? Floodplain management in Perth
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 […]
Tag Archives: stormwater
A Smart show(off) – Wharf St Smart Park revealed!
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 […]
THIS is why we need good drainage
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 – […]
The changing face of rainfall – working with new regional temporal patterns for Australia – ARR 2016
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 […]
Replenishing Perth’s Ramsar lakes – a partnership project
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 […]
Newsflash(flood): Helen on TV talking stormwater
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 […]
UNDO-ing stormwater in WA!
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 […]
#stormwater16
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 […]
Drainage & densification – IPWEA 2016
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 […]
Double whammy: plaudits for water champions of WA
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 […]
