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Water Sensitive Urban Design
and Integrated Water Cycle Management Projects
Woodlots
and Wetlands key staff qualifications and activities include
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PhD
in soil and water management
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Certified
Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control
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River Styles ® certified (Macquarie Uni)
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Post graduate short courses in Water Sensitive Urban Design (Monash
Uni)
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Presentation of WSUD papers at conferences
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Post graduate certificate course in Public Participation
Indicative projects include:
- Design
of integrated stormwater treatment systems involving bio-retention
swales, water tanks, bio-retention swales, dry retention basins,
GPTs and wetlands for several 10 to 20 ha urban sectors in Warriewood
Valley.
- Use
of WSUD for modelling of water cycle for a 440 unit retirement village
at Forresters Beach.
- WSUD
applied to redevelopment of Defence lands and waterbodies at Moorebank.
- WSUD
for urban developments by Wagga City Council. Woodlots & Wetlands
were engaged by NSW Planning to develop detailed WSUD design for
over 40 ha of urban developments.
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WSUD principles application to a major redevelopment site at Kurnell.
This study developed the concept of ‘internal’ processing
of stormwater.
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Design of bio-retention system for industrial developments in western
Sydney.
- Assessment
of a series of Blacktown City Council industrial subdivisions in
the Eastern Creek Catchment to ensure zero increase in peak runoff.
- Assessment
of stormwater devices required to reduce urbanisation impacts on
Lake Macquarie.
Major
runoff water management features for this large subdivision were designed
by Woodlots & Wetlands.
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