From paul@tj.geelong.netlink.com.au Mon Jan 12 11:45:54 1998 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 04:08:27 -0500 From: Paul Osmond Reply-To: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu To: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu Subject: Re: stormwater At 06:59 PM 11/01/98 -0800, you wrote: >Hi all > >HELP PLEASE WITH ANY INFORMATION RELATING TO STORMWATER DESIGN. > >I am the treasurer of our local Landcare group and the project leader for a >stormwater project about to start. > >Specifically we're looking for contacts of successful stormwater projects, >innovative ideas, designs for gross pollutant traps, designs for repair of >very steep erosion points (at outfall), books or papers. In fact any info >at all related to stormwater. > >Thanks > >Rene van Raders >PO Box 389 >Malanda 4885 >Far North Queensland >Australia > > G'day Rene and Lorraine! There's a fair bit around in Victoria at the moment about stormwater and "best practice" - we are involved ourselves at the City of Port Phillip in a project with Melbourne Water, the EPA and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to reduce the stormwater pollution load. I am also working on a set of principles for good stormwater practice for the City, which among other things will require no net increase in the area of impervious surfaces resulting from new urban development. It also links in with our roof gardens work, of course! A paper my boss and myself prepared on this should be available in the proceedings of the Catalyst '97 conference (University of Canderra), due out next month. I suggest you get hold of the following publications: * "Best Practice Stormwater Management", a manual (draft only at the moment, but they are looking for public comment) produced by Melbourne Water, the EPA and DNRE. While it is mainly focussed on the urban situation, and particularly on pollution control, it does have some good practical material on gross pollutant traps, on site retention and detention etc. * "Sustainable Urban Water Systems and Ecotechnology", papers from a 1993 seminar at Murdoch University. Again, an urban focus, but some good lateral thinking. * "Water Sensitive Urban (Residential) Design Guidelines for the Perth Metropolitan Region" - Discussion paper, and Schedule of Best Management Practice. These two documents were produced by the WA Water Authority, Department of Planning and Urban Development and WA EPA - they are out of print (1993), but are still pretty much "state of the art". You can probably acess them via Internet - I assume one or more of the organisations I have listed has a Web site (haven't checked). Hope this is of some use. I'll be interested to see what others come up with, as it will be of value to me too. Paul Osmond