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Catchment

Catchment audit protocol

1. What's in the catchment and where does the water flow?
2. Does urban stormwater play a significant role?
3. Who has a stake in catchment management here?
4. What are their positions?, what are their interests?
5. What 'interests' do the ecologically significant places have?
6. Where are the people and places' interests in tension, or in conflict?
7. Finding and inventing options
8. What principles should guide decision-making?
9. A recommended path forward

The protocol document (doc)


• Existing plans
• Data Sets
• Case Studies

Planning

• How to prepare a plan
• Engaging stakeholders
• Planning tools
• Planning approaches and philosophies

Doing

• Coordinating catchment management
• Land use planning
• Urban water engineering
• Organisational change
• Community development and education

Reviewing

• Organisational performance
• Socio-economic and ecological outcomes
• Revising plans

Land use planning

• The NSW planning system - an overview (iPlan)
• iPlan - Planning information and services for New South Wales

Planning

• Legislation
• Existing Water Cycle Plans
• Water Sensitive Urban Design
• Sustainable Development

Doing

• Existing Land Use Plans (NSW - SEPP's, REP's, LEP's, DCP's)
• Land Use Plan Making (NSW)
• Planning Land Developments
• Development Assessment (NSW)

Reviewing

• Evaluating Land Use Planning

Engineering

Planning

• Ecological Contexts
• Strategic Water Management Plans
  1. Developing Plans
     • Catchment Management Plans
     • Water Cycle Management Plans
     • Stormwater Management Plans
  2. Existing Plans
     • Catchment Management (NSW)
     • Stormwater Management (NSW)
• Water Sensitive Urban Design
• Design Tools
  • Pollutant Load Calculators
  • Stormwater Modelling
  • Life Cycle Costing
  • Consultants and Suppliers
• Device and Practice Selection

Doing

• Built Environment
  • Source Controls
  • Water Conservation
  • Stormwater Reuse
  • Redirecting Flow
  • Reducing Flows
  • Water Quality Treatment
  • Education and Regulation

• Construction Sites
  • Site management
• Surface stabilisation
• Flow management
• Water quality treatment
• Regulation and education

Reviewing

• Device Performance
• Ecological Performance

Ecology

Planning

• Designing Ecological Research Programs
• Designing Ecological Surveillance Programs
  
• Designing Ecosystem Management Strategies
• Designing Ecosystem Management Systems

Doing

• Catchment Data Sets
• Catchment Management

• Bushland
• Wetlands
• Urban Ecology
• Groundwater
• Creeks and Rivers
• Lakes & Reservoirs
• Estuaries & Coastal Lagoons
• Oceans

Reviewing

• Evaluating Research and Surveillance Programs

Organisational change

• Video - Urban Water: financially sustainable, creative solutions, with community support
• Model Stormwater Management System

Planning

1. Environmental and socioeconomic systems analysis
2. Stakeholder analysis
3. Facilitating community decision-making
4. Designing ecosystem management strategies
5. Negotiating alignment amongst agencies
6. Designing ecosystem management systems
7. Designing organisational management systems

Doing

8. Change management
9. Capacity building
10. Championing projects and technologies
11. Operating organisational management systems
12. Community development

Reviewing

13. Evaluating organisational performance
14. Evaluating ecological and socioeconomic outcomes

Community development and education

Planning

• Identifying Stakeholders
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Stakeholders' Positions and Interests
• Designing a community development or education program

Doing

• Engaging Stakeholders
• Principled Negotiation
• Facilitating Community Decision-making
• Capacity Building
• Examples of Communication Methods
• Education Case studies

  Educational Resources

• Business and industry
• Schools
• Community

Reviewing

• Methods for reviewing programs

 

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