Matthew Burns

Flood Mitigation Performance of Permeable Pavements in an Urbanised Catchment in Melbourne, Australia (Elizabeth Street Catchment): Case Study

M Arora, I Chopra, MH Nguyen, P Fernando, MJ Burns, TD Fletcher

Journal article  |  2023  |  Water (Switzerland)

Permeable pavement (PP) systems have been shown to provide onsite stormwater management as well as contaminant removal benefits. T..

Dispersed Urban-Stormwater Control Improved Stream Water Quality in a Catchment-Scale Experiment

Christopher J Walsh, Moss Imberger, Matthew J Burns, Darren G Bos, Tim D Fletcher

Journal article  |  2022  |  WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Traditional urban drainage degrades receiving waters. Alternative approaches have potential to protect downstream waters, but wide..

Real-time controlled rainwater harvesting systems can improve the performance of stormwater networks

WD Xu, MJ Burns, F Cherqui, S Duchesne, G Pelletier, TD Fletcher

Journal article  |  2022  |  Journal of Hydrology

Real-Time Control (RTC) technology is increasingly applied in Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) systems to optimise their performance rel..

Closing the gap on wicked urban stream restoration problems: A framework to integrate science and community values

Brian M Murphy, Kathryn L Russell, Charles C Stillwell, Robert Hawley, Mateo Scoggins, Kristina G Hopkins, Matthew J Burns, Kristine T Taniguchi-Quan, Kate H Macneale, Robert F Smith

Journal article  |  2022  |  FRESHWATER SCIENCE

Restoring the health of urban streams has many of the characteristics of a wicked problem. Addressing a wicked problem requires ma..

Community-powered urban stream restoration: A vision for sustainable and resilient urban ecosystems

Mateo Scoggins, Derek B Booth, Tim Fletcher, Megan Fork, Ana Gonzalez, Rebecca L Hale, Robert J Hawley, Allison H Roy, Erika E Bilger, Nick Bond, Matthew James Burns, Kristina G Hopkins, Kate H Macneale, Eugenia Marti, S Kyle McKay, Martin W Neale, Michael J Paul, Blanca Rios-Touma, Kathryn L Russell, Robert F Smith, et al.

Journal article  |  2022  |  Freshwater Science

Urban streams can provide amenities to people living in cities, but those benefits are reduced when streams become degraded, poten..

Modelling the interaction between vegetation and infiltrated stormwater

A Poozan, A William Western, M James Burns, M Arora

Journal article  |  2022  |  Journal of Hydrology

A major problem associated with sealing native soils with impervious surfaces in urban areas is reduced groundwater recharge. This..

Linking stormwater control performance to stream ecosystem outcomes: Incorporating a performance metric into effective imperviousness

Christopher J Walsh, Matthew J Burns, Tim D Fletcher, Darren G Bos, Peter Poelsma, Joshphar Kunapo, Moss Imberger

Journal article  |  2022  |  PLOS Water

Stormwater control measures, such as raingardens, tanks, or wetlands, are often employed to mitigate the deleterious effects of ur..

Coordinated Control Can Deliver Synergies Across Multiple Rainwater Storages

Wei D Xu, Matthew J Burns, Frederic Cherqui, Kate Smith-Miles, Tim D Fletcher

Journal article  |  2022  |  WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Studies in Real−Time Control (RTC) Rainwater Harvesting Systems (RWH) have to date been limited to the control of single storages,..

Impacts of stormwater infiltration on downslope soil moisture and tree water use

Andrew W Western, Meenakshi Arora, Matthew J Burns, Jeremie Bonneau, Jasmine K Thom, Chui Fern Yong, Robert B James, Peter J Poelsma, Tim D Fletcher

Journal article  |  2021  |  ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Infiltration of stormwater is a widely used strategy to mitigate the flooding and environmental risks that come from urban runoff ..

Measuring the water balance in stormwater control measures

Tim D Fletcher, Jean-Luc Bertrand-Krajewski, Jérémie Bonneau, Matthew J Burns, Peter J Poelsma, Jasmine K Thom

Book Chapter  |  2021

Abstract Stormwater control measures (SCMs), also frequently referred to as sustainable urban drainage systems (SUD..