Urban Water Engineering
Planning
Strategic Water Management Plans
- Developing Plans
- Existing Plans
Water Sensitive Urban Design for technical information on WSUD; WSUD devices and case studies.
Design Tools
- WSUD Technical Design Guidelines
- Pollutant Load Calculators
- Stormwater Modelling
- Life Cycle Costing
- Consultants and Suppliers
Integrated water cycle management requires a treatment train approach involving multiple devices to concurrently achieve multiple objectives. In general each device will have more than one function, unlike stormwater infrastructure in the past that often focused on just one function, such as removing stormwater quickly, with no thought to water quality amendment or visual amenity.
WaterSmart Practice Notes
The Water Smart Practice Notes below set out the range of considerations with respect to particular components of integrated water cycle management. Whilst developed for NSW with a focus on the Hunter Central and Mid-north Coast regions, they have general application.
Click on the link below to Download
| 1. The WaterSmart Home - 706kb PDF |
| 2. Site Planning - 1Mb PDF |
| 3. Drainage Design - 508kb PDF |
| 4. Rainwater Tanks - 786kb PDF |
| 5. Infiltration Devices - 766kb PDF |
| 6. Paving - 574kb PDF |
| 7. Landscape Stormwater Measures - 863kb PDF |
| 8. Water Efficient Landscape Practices - 978kb PDF |
| 9. Wastewater Reuse - 464kb PDF |
| 10. Groundwater - 444kb PDF |
| 11. Site Discharge Index - 1Mb PDF |
Doing
Built Environment
Manuals on source controls, water conservation, stormwater reuse, redirecting flow, reducing flows, water quality treatment, and education and regulation.
- Source Controls
- Water Conservation
- Stormwater Reuse
- Redirecting Flow
- Reducing Flows
- Water Quality Treatment
- Education and Regulation
Construction Sites
Manuals on site management, surface stabilisation, flow management, water quality treatment, and regulation and education.
- Site management
- Surface stabilisation
- Flow management
- Water quality treatment
- Regulation and education
Reviewing
We suggest taking time to check whether your current engineering approach sits well - what kind of sense it makes, and what sits uncomfortably or uneasily or is unclear ... where you might like to take it ...
This is a practical application of 'listening to ourselves' - allowing our tacit, implicit, knowledge ... our 'feel' for what is going on to inform what we do ... As Polanyi, Gendlin and others have underlined, we each know more than it is easy to say.
For more on how to 'use gut feel skillfully', see Listening to ourselves.
Does your engineering approach make ecological sense? What ecological effects will these works have? |
Ecological contexts |
Have you considered who has a stake in your engineering program? |
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When your engineering approach is innovative (for your organisation), the design and construct process can be used to build your organisational capacity to do more work of this kind. All this needs is a different approach to project management. |
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Have you considered how you will evaluate the ecological performance of your engineering works? |
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Have you contemplated sourcing additional funds so you can take a more innovative approach? |
