Pre Conference Workshops
Pre Conference Workshops
Full Day Workshop 1
NSW Guidelines for the Maintenance of Stormwater
Treatment Measures Presented by Murray Powell, Optimal Stormwater/Stormwater NSW 8:30 am to 5:30 pm This workshop is aimed at Maintenance Managers and Cleaning Contractors, as well as Council staff involved in the sizing, siting and approval of stormwater treatment measures. This is a new course developed by Stormwater NSW. The focus of these new Guidelines is on primary treatments such as GPTs, Trashracks, Oil and Grit Separators and a variety of proprietary devices. The biggest reason for devices not delivering the outcomes expected is lack of maintenance or incorrect maintenance. This workshop runs off the back of the new Guidelines, produced by Stormwater NSW, that will become the industry standard and reference document for the Maintenance of Stormwater Treatment Measures. Topics to be covered include:
� An introduction to the types of treatments, their classifications and purposes
� An introduction to the types of GPTs and their functionality (if you understand how they work, then you’ll understand how this impacts cleaning)
� The reality of monitoring, regular cleaning, and annual/comprehensive cleaning
� Quick coverage of 90% of proprietary devices
� A more detailed focus on the 4 devices that have 90% of the market
� Cleaning specifications for these – to include in tenders, and be used on the ground
� Secondary treatment/Green treatments – in summary only
� Dewatering – a problem for every site
� Field validation of performance, cleaning results
� GPT auditing and WSUD auditing
� Costing – how much should cleaning cost
� Budgeting and bean counters – how to get the money to do it right
� Results, reports and record keeping – why
� Tips for improving device performance – get better bang for your buck
� A copy of the Guidelines will be provided for all attendees.
The presenter for this workshop will be Murray Powell, who is secretary of Stormwater NSW, one of the document authors and General Manager of Optimal Stormwater who are one of the leaders in design/construction/auditing/rectification of stormwater treatment devices.
Workshop Format 09.00 am Workshop Commences 10.30 am Morning Tea 12.30 pm Lunch 15.00 pm Afternoon Tea
Pre Conference Workshops
17.00 pm Workshop Concludes
Workshop Fees
Member Rate: $595 per person
Non member Rate: $665 per person
Full Day Workshop 2
Stormwater Management Source Control
Presented by Rod Wiese, Storm Consulting/Stormwater Australia
8:30 am to 5:30 pm
Serious issues of stormwater management in Australia are posed by the prospect of 35 million
population by 2050. How will the existing stormwater infrastructure of our major population
concentrations cope with change under the ‘high rise’ option being proposed for some parts of our
cities? What strategies can be adopted to enable existing (wellperforming) infrastructure to cope
with this scenario without expensive upgrade? How can redevelopment in catchments with existing
underperforming stormwater infrastructure be managed to enable existing, inground works to
progressively meet the demand resulting from increased population without expensive upgrade?
Must the creeks and natural waterways of our periurban (rural) landscapes be sacrificed to hard
lining in the wake of the proposed expansion? How can WSUD and GI (green infrastructure)
measures be integrated into these scenarios? Positive, strategic answers to these and other
questions based on WSUD ‘source control’ practice will be provided in the Workshop.
The content of the Workshop will be focused on the quantity domain of stormwater engineering
practice, only, and will therefore consider hydrological (design) issues relating to:
� channelforming/environmental flows in natural waterways of ‘greenfield’ catchments
experiencing ‘first wave’ development; and,
� flood flows in formal waterways of developed catchments experiencing redevelopment
The Notes provided in the course are based on content of the awardwinning manual “WSUD: Basic
Procedures for ‘source control’ of Stormwater – a Handbook for Australian Practice” edited by
Professor John Argue (University of South Australia). This document is endorsed by Stormwater
Industry Association (SIA), Australian Water Association (AWA) and by Dept of Water, Western
Australia.
The short course will include: design procedures based on stateoftheart analyses and best
overseas practices adapted to Australiawide conditions; case study illustrations drawn from field
installations with between ten and 20 years of Australian operational history; design ‘worked
examples’. The Notes provided will include additional material on pollution control/treatment and
stormwater harvesting: this content will not be covered in the Workshop. The Workshop will be led
by Rod Wiese. A basic understanding of engineering hydrology will be assumed.
Pre Conference Workshops
Workshop Format
09.00 am Workshop Commences
10.30 am Morning Tea
12.30 pm Lunch
15.00 pm Afternoon Tea
17.00 pm Workshop Concludes
Workshop Fees
Member Rate: $595 per person
Non member Rate: $665 per person
Half Day Morning Workshop 1
Stormwater Asset Management 101
Presented by Magnolia Garcia, Innovyze
8:30 am to 12:30 pm
We design and construct our stormwater networks to provide a particular level of service and
budget, but are we continuing to provide this service throughout operation? Join this workshop to
learn the key elements to best practice asset management, see how easy it can be to determine
budget requirements and develop optimised pipe renewal programs.
� Learn the importance of CCTV and efficient use of the captured data
� Learn how asset management can lead the design process in order to gain optimal value
from your assets
� An overview of deterioration modelling, how we can learn from our prior failures, the
models available and the limitations to be aware of
� Take your pipe condition assessments to the next level with automated decision logic trees
and renewal optimisation tools
� Example of optimising maintenance expenditure for asset renewals
� The session will be followed by a live Q&A
Workshop Format
09.00 am Workshop Commences
10.30 am Morning Tea
12.30 pm Lunch
Workshop Fees
Member: $295.00
Nonmember: $365.00
Pre Conference Workshops
Half Day Morning Workshop 2
Basin Design with ARR16
Presented by Sophia Buchanan, Innovyze
1:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Storage requirements are imposed on the majority of development works today. In this workshop
we look at the theory behind storage basins, how to optimise designs to meet development
requirements and to ensure we protect our surrounding environment from the potentially harmful
impacts caused by development.
� Learn the theory behind detention basins
� Understand the effects development has on the surrounding environment
� Learn the method so you can practice with confidence
� Take your basin design to the next level using ARR16 rainfall
� Network with your peers
� See an example project on a detention basin design
� The session will be followed by a live Q&A
Workshop Format
12.30 pm Lunch
01.30 pm Workshop Commences
03.30 pm Afternoon Tea
Workshop Fees
Member: $295.00
Nonmember: $365.00
Pre Conference Workshops
CONFERENCE PROGRAM: TUESDAY 9TH OCTOBER
8.00 am Delegate Registration
Tea and Coffee on Arrival
8.45 am Welcome to STORMWATER 2018
Chris Gray, Conference Facilitator
9.05 am Welcome to Country
9.10 am Conference Opening
Belinda Lovell, National President, Stormwater Australia
9.20 am Keynote Presentation
Jane Clary, Vicepresident and Senior Water Resources Scientist, Wright Water Engineering, USA
10.05 am Keynote Presentation
Andrew Reese, Vice President and Principal Consultant, The Wood Group USA
10.50 am Platinum Sponsor Welcome
10.55 am Morning Tea
11.25 am A Review of the Status
of Stormwater Quality
Offset Collection and
Implementation in
Queensland
Brad Dalrymple, BMT
Lincoln Square Flood
Purge Analysis The
Devil is in the Detail
Rod Wiese, Storm
Consulting
Stormwater in the
Landscape – Safety and
Risk Assessment
Andrew McMillan,
Alluvium Consulting
Scouring Velocity Out
of Waterway Design:
Time to Cleanup
Design Guidelines
Rick Dennis, Allan &
Dennis
11.55 am Move to Next Concurrent Session
12.00 noon The Impact of
Community
Expectations and Use
on the Operation of
WSUD in Kuringgai
Council
Sophia Findlay and
Anna Milner, Kuring
gai Council
NSW Local
Government
Stormwater Levy in
Use Successes,
Shortcomings and the
Case for Change?
Lucie Bright, Alluvium
Consulting
Building a Healthier
Tomorrow with
Passively Irrigated
Street Trees and Open
Space
Sally Boer, Peter Breen,
Dale Browne, Dylan
Cain and Steve Buck
E2Designlab, Glenn
Browning, Healthy Land
and Water
Directly Connected
Impervious Areas in
Residential
Subdivisions in
Western Sydney
Stephen Gribble,
Cardno
12.30 pm Move to Next Concurrent Session
Conference Program
12.35 pm Extreme Wetland
Makeover – Multiple
Benefits at Mountain
View Reserve
Andrew McMillan,
Alluvium Consulting,
Tim Gowing and Daria
Rech, Penrith City
Council
Flash Flood
Intelligence in the Age
of Instant
Communication
Sharon Wallace, BMT
Landscape Scale
Constructed Wetlands
for Improving Water
Quality and Protecting
the Great Barrier Reef
Damian McCann, AWC
Nathan Waltham,
Centre for Tropical
Water and Aquatic
Ecosystems
Robelle Domain
Robbie Marshall,
Cardno
1.05 pm Lunch
2.00 pm Systems Analysis
Quantifies Urban
Stormwater Resources
and Market
Mechanisms for Pricing
Stormwater and
Environmental
Management
Prof Peter Coombes,
Urban Water Cycle
Solutions
Monitoring Hydraulic
Conductivity and Soil
Contamination in
Bioretention Systems
in SEQ Constructed in
2006
Nicole Ramilo, BMT
Great Ocean Road
Drainage
Investigations: Using
Modern Techniques to
Reduce Below Road
Landslide Risk
Mardi MedwellSquier,
GHD, Wayne Perrett,
VicRoads
Community
Engagement in
Indigenous
Communities to
Promote Waterway
Resiliance and
Sustainable Fishing,
Mun River, Thailand
Mark Gibson, MRG
Water Consulting
2.30 pm Move to Next Concurrent Session
2.35 pm Which WSUD Assets
are Most Financially
Sustainable?
Jarrod Gaut, City of
Greater Geelong and
Deakin University,
Kanagaratnam
Baskaran and Lloyd
Chua, Deakin University
Are BioRetention
Basins an Example of
Cargo Cult
Engineering?
Nigel Bosworth,
Calibre Consulting
The Nexus of
Stormwater and
Septics
Matt Pilcher, Yarra
Ranges Council, Lynze
Cheung, Monash
University
Design Your Creek
Week – Community
CoDesign to for a 1.6
km Waterway
Naturalisation Project
Alan Hoban, Bligh
Tanner and Amalie
Wright, Landscapology,
Ben Walker, Ipswich
City Council
3.05 pm Afternoon Tea
3.35 pm Policy to
Implementation
Continuous
Improvement of Water
Sensitive Design at the
Small Scale
Prudence Tucker, April
McKay and Louise
Morris, MidCoast
Council
Sediment Retention
Behaviour of
LaboratoryBased
Permeable Pavements
Dr Kelly Hill, Water
Research Australia
Cool Cities: The Value
of Urban Stormwater
in Climate Change
Resilience
Martin O’Dea,
CLOUSTON Associates
Nutrient Management
in the Hawkesbury
Nepean River System
Iain Fairbairn, Sydney
Water
4.05 pm Move to Next Concurrent Session
Conference Program
4.10 pm ACT Healthy
Waterways – A
Program to Deliver
Citywide Stormwater
Quality Improvements
Justin Foley, ACT
Environment Planning
and Sustainable
Development
Directorate
Controlling the
Variables – Part 2: The
TradeOffs of Field
Testing vs Lab Testing
Dr Darren Drapper,
Drapper Environmental
Consultants
Hydraulic Modelling, A
Tool to Identify
Integrated Water Cycle
Management
Opportunities
Celine Marchenay and
Warwick Bishop,
Water Technology,
Nigel Pugh, Melbourne
Water, Dan Stevens,
BECA, Paul Edwards,
Urban Water Solutions
Implementing
Sustainable Water
Strategy Through
Development Industry
Engagement
Ian Adams, Organica
Engineering, Edward
Cotter, City of Greater
Dandenong
4.40 pm Move to Next Concurrent Session
4.45 pm Aerial Survey of
Aboveground Plant
Biomass of
Bioretention Basins
Using a Lightweight
Drone
Emad Kavehei, Maria
Fernanda Adame and
Graham Jenkins,
Griffith University,
Nhan Duy Truong,
Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology,
Prof Charles Lemckert,
University of Canberra
Programmatic
Management of the
Verification and
Certification of
Stormwater Control
Measures
James Lenhart and
Vaikko Allen, Contech
Engineered Solutions
The Impact of Trapped
Stormwater and Other
Factors on the Water
and Sediment Quality
in the Near Shore Zone
of Tuggerah Lakes –
Where to From Here?
Rebecca Swanson,
Aaron Wright and Peter
Scanes, NSW Office of
Environment and
Heritage
The Influence of
Statutory Land Use
Planning on Water
Sensitive Urban Design
Practices
Dr Don Williams,
Formerly Monash
University Faculty of
Law
5.15 pm End of Day 1 Conference Proceedings
5.30 pm –
7.30 pm
Conference Welcome Reception
Conference Program
CONFERENCE PROGRAM: WEDNESDAY 10TH OCTOBER
7.00 am Morning Yoga
8.00 am Delegate Registration
8.45 am Welcome to Day 2
Chris Gray, Conference Facilitator
9.00 am Keynote Presentation
Rod Redenbach
9.45 am Panel Session – The Future of Stormwater
11.00 am Morning Tea
11.30 am Hydrological Models
and LiDAR Data
Implementation for
Quantifying Lot Scale
Rainwater Harvesting
and Future Floor Risks
in the City of Whittlesea
Dr Edmond Lascaris,
Bradley Byrne, Fleur
Anderson, Felicity Ayres,
Sandra George, Stephen
Comben, Denise Turner
and Peter Ali, City of
Whittlesea, Sultana
Nasrin Baby, City of
Whittlesea and RMIT
University, Nahlah
Abbas, City of
Whittlesea and
Queensland Central
University
Victoria’s Integrated
Water Planning
Framework – The
Goulburn Broken Case
Study
Damien D'Aspromonte,
Foresight Advisory,
James Newton and Anna
May, Department of
Environment, Land
Water and Planning,
Alan Tyson and Steve
McKensie, Goulburn
Valley Water
Restoring Sydney’s
Creeks
Dan Cunningham and
Phil Birtles, Sydney
Water, Richard
McManus and Dominic
Blackham, Alluvium
Optimising Stormwater
Management Assets
Through the Full
Development Cycle
Malcolm Eadie, Turbid
Water Solutions
12.00 am Move to Next Concurrent Session
12.05 pm Coupling CFD Analysis
and 2D Flood Modelling
James Apostolidis, GHD
The Goliath of
Catchment
Management Planning
Nona Ruddell and Leonie
Gray, Fairfield City
Council
Springfield Rise Master
Planned Community
Development
Peter Comino, Netsanet
Shiferaw, Michael Koi
and Daniel Wood,
Cardno
Testing the SQIDEP
Experiences and
Challenges of
LaboratoryBased
Validation.
Benjamin Modra, Water
Research Laboratory
UNSW, Dr Darren
Drapper, Drapper
Environmental
Consultants
12.35 pm Lunch
Conference Program
1.35 pm Royal Melbourne Golf
Club Over 8 Years of
Stormwater Harvesting
and Treatment
Experience
Peter Gordon and Kurt
Dahl, Permeate Partners
Bolin Bolin Stormwater
Harvesting The
Complications of
Integrated Water
Management with
Multiple Stakeholders
Rod Wiese, Storm
Consulting
Constraints and
Opportunities for
Management of Urban
Waterways to Achieve
Multiple Benefits
Beth Salt and David
Reid, Georges
Riverkeeper, Michael
Bales, Bales
Environmental Services
Implications of Recent
Research on Stormwater
Quality Targets and
Practices
Alan Hoban, Bligh Tanner
2.05 pm Move to Next Concurrent Session
2.10 pm Bill Mitchell Park
Stormwater Harvesting
Project
Hugh Williamson,
Murray Powell and Omid
Sayar, Optimal
Stormwater, Kylie
McMahon and Brian
Jacobs, City of Ryde
Caboolture River
Integrated Catchment
Management Plan
Nicole Ramilo, Lucy Peljo
and Brad Dalrymple,
BMT, Elissa McConaghy,
Moreton Bay Regional
Council
Evaluation of Creek
Restoration Works at
Blacktown City
Council’s Lalor Creek
Craig Bush, Blacktown
City Council, Carl
Tippler, CT
Environmental Pty Ltd
Designing for the Future:
Sediment Accumulation
Analysis Through
Maintenance of WSUD
Assets
Fotos Melaisis,
Stormwater360 Australia
2.40 pm Move to Next Concurrent Session
2.45 pm A Retrospective
Perspective of Effective
Stormwater Harvesting
– Looking Back to Move
Forward
Rod Wiese, Storm
Consulting
What Do 'Best Practice
Water Quality Targets'
Miss When Considering
the Local Context;
Waverley Council
Anna Thompson,
McGregor Coxall,
Genevieve Wilson,
Waverley Council
We Are Not Alone:
Creating Content for
NonWater
Practitioners of IWM
Lindsey Brown, Foundry
When Do I Clean My
GPT? Using Good
Monitoring to Forecast
the Maintenance of
GPTs
Ben Penhallurick, Renew
Solutions
3.15 pm Afternoon Tea
3.45 pm Use of Direct Rain as an
Investigation Process
and Design of Basins
using ARR2016 Methods
Prof Peter Coombes,
Urban Water Cycle
Solutions
H2OK Making a
Difference
Lyndsey Day, ACT
Government
Cooks River Catchment
Stormwater
Improvement Study
Brad Dalrymple, BMT,
Judy Charles, Georges
River Council, Charles
Coathup and Ben
Penhallurick, Renew
Solutions
Establishing Technical
Standards for Organic
Biofiltration Media
Eric Love, Centre for
Organic Research &
Education Inc
Conference Program
4.15 pm Move to Next Concurrent Session
4.20 pm When to Use Hydrologic
Lump and Semi
Distributed Approach to
Determine Critical
Duration and Storm
Pattern
Daniel Niven, MayLe Ng
and Jonah Chorely,
Premise
‘Out With the Old, In
With the New’ –
Upcycling a Terminally
Ill GPT
Guy Amos, Optimal
Stormwater Pty Ltd, Jim
Moore, North Sydney
Council
A New Approach to
Stormwater
Management to
Incorporate
Placemaking and
Resilience Benefits
Glenn Browning and
Andrew O’Neill, Healthy
Land and Water
Perspectives from
Ecology and Soil Science
on Stormwater Runoff
and Bioretention Filter
Media
Jonas Larsen, Renew
Solutions
4.50 pm Close of Day 2
7.00 pm –
11.00 pm
STORMWATER 2018 Conference Dinner and National Awards for Excellence – Millennium Ballroom, ANZ
Stadium sponsored by:
Conference Program
CONFERENCE PROGRAM: THURSDAY 11TH OCTOBER
8.30 am Delegate Registration
9.30 am Welcome to Day 3
Chris Gray, Conference Facilitator
9.45 am Keynote Presentation
Ruth Hocker, Stormwater Project Manager, City of Lancaster, Pennsylvania USA
10.30 am Morning Tea
11.00 am Facilitated Panel Session – Jack Mullaly
12.30 pm Lunch
1.30 pm Applying ARR 2016 To
Stormwater Drainage
Design
Dr Geoffrey O'Loughlin,
Anstad Pty Ltd
To Be Advised Stormwater Harvesting
Evolution – These
Systems Are Not Set
and Forget
Omid Sayar, Optimal
Stormwater, David
Manson, North Sydney
Council
Maintenance Regimes
Affect Stormwater
Quality Improvement
Device Performance
Dr Peter Scanes and
Aaron Wright, NSW
Office of Environment
and Heritage
2.00 pm Move to Next Concurrent Session
2.05 pm How Important are Pits
in Overland Flow
Modelling?
David Whyte and Bala
Kilaparty, Cardno
Much Ado About Next
To Nothing; A
Stormwater Quality
Data Handling Below
Detection Limits
Dr Darren Drapper,
Drapper Environmental
Consultants
Just Keep Pumping
Reflection on the Use of
Injection Grouting for
InSitu Refurbishment
of Drainage Systems
and Discussion of the
Challenges, Limitations
and Possibilities
Jason Cooper,
Wollongong City Council, Gabriel Tugrul, GT Civil
Pty Ltd
Are Your Stormwater
Treatment Assets a
Ticking Time Bomb,
Waste of Money or
Fantastic Resource?
Murray Powell, Optimal
Stormwater
2.35 pm Move to Next Concurrent Session
2.40 pm Management of Water
Quality Issues in Urban
Stormwater Ponds
Ryan Xu and Ricky Kwan,
Storm Consulting
Waterway Health
Improvement Program
Dan Cunningham and
Amanda Chimkievitch,
Sydney Water
Challenges of
Implementing $400
million of Regional
Water Quality
Infrastructure
Mark Liebman,
Sustainability Workshop
and Blacktown City
Council, Ross Jennings,
Blacktown City Council
A Review of Pollutant
Accumulation Data for
GPTs and SQIDs in NSW
and Queensland
Brad Dalrymple and
Adyn De Groot, BMT,
Charles Coathup and
Ben Penhallurick, Renew
Solutions
3.10 pm Afternoon Tea
Conference Program
3.30 pm Willoughby Council LGA
Wide Integrated Water
Management Strategy
Hugh Williamson and
Murray Powell, Optimal
Stormwater, Reid Butler,
REIDenvironmental
A New Method for
Protecting Urbanising
Waterways: Urban
Streamflow Impact
Assessment
Dr Stephanie Kermode,
Dr Marlene van der
Sterren and Phillip
Birtles Sydney Water, Dr
Geoff Vietz, Streamology
Pty Ltd, Carl Tippler, CT
Environmental, Kathy
Russell and Prof Tim
Fletcher, The University
of Melbourne, Michael
Dean, i2i Digital
To Be Advised What We Are Spending
on Stormwater in
Western Sydney?
Peter Gillam, AECOM
4.00 pm Move to Plenary Ballroom
4.05 pm Closing Presentation, Announcement of Destination for 2020 National Conference and Prize Draw
Belinda Lovell, Stormwater Australia
4.30 pm Conference Close
Conference Program
Conference Registration Fees
Early Bird Full Conference and Social Events Member Rate: $1040 per person
Early Bird Full Conference and Social Events Non Member Rate: $1210 per person
Early Bird Full Conference with Welcome Reception only Member Rate $910 per person
Early Bird Full Conference with Welcome Reception only Non Member Rate: $1080 per person
Early Bird Day Registration Member Rate $525 per person
Early Bird Day Registration Non Member Rate $595 per person
Standard Full Conference Member Rate: $1140 per person
Standard Full Conference Non Member Rate: $1310 per person
Standard Full Conference with Welcome Reception only Member Rate $1010 per person
Standard Full Conference with Welcome Reception only Non Member Rate: $1180 per person
Standard Day Registration Member Rate $595 per person
Standard Day Registration Non Member Rate $665 per person
Technical – Friday, 12th October
Conference Technical Tour
Full details of the final program will be provided by the end of June 2018.
Technical Tour Format
08.30 am Coach departs from the Novotel Sydney Olympic Park
10.30 am Morning Tea
12.30 pm Lunch
16.30 pm Coach returns to the Novotel Sydney Olympic Park
Early Bird Member Rate: $275 per person
Early Bird Non member Rate: $325 per person
Standard Member Rate: $325 per person
Standard Non member Rate: $375 per person