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City of Greater Shepparton
URL: http://www.greatershepparton.com.au/council/environment/watermanagement/watersensitiveurbandesign.html
Water Sensitive Urban Design
Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) is a method of designing new residential and industrial developments to treat stormwater before it leaves the local area.
In a conventional street guttering system, water is transported away at high speed during a rain event, with any litter and pollutants also flowing directly to our rivers. Under WSUD, water is filtered through ‘raingardens’, catching litter and sediments, with the cleaned water percolating into pipes below and slowly draining, often into retardation basins for further settling, before being released as cleaner water back into the river system. Kialla Lakes is an example of this type of system. This system requires some care on behalf of the residents to not disturb or compact their nature strips as this is where the pipes are laid.
Shepparton Showgrounds Water Sensitive Urban Design and Water Harvesting
During the redevelopment of the Shepparton Showgrounds a number of stormwater treatment and harvesting principles have been implemented. This includes the installation of a number of swale drains to treat stormwater prior to discharge to the urban stormwater network.
Two water tanks with a capacity of 43,000 litres were also installed, these tanks enable roof runoff to be reused on site. Funding for the project was provided by Council and the Australian Government Water Fund - Community Water Grants.
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