Can dispersed, catchment-scale, urban stormwater retention restore stream ecosystems?

Grant number: LP0883610 | Funding period: 2008 - 2013

Completed

Abstract

This project is a world-first, catchment-scale, experimental test of the benefits of new stormwater treatment approaches to stream health. The project, a collaboration with Melbourne Water and the Shire of Yarra Ranges, integrates river, urban stormwater and water resource management for multiple benefits. It should accelerate the uptake of smart, sustainable technologies in stormwater use and management, and identify better investment strategies for urban water and river management. The robust testing of the effect of new treatment design objectives by a catchment-scale experiment will have a strong impact on research in stream ecology and urban water management.

Related publications (6)

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Catchment-scale urbanization diminishes effects of habitat complexity on instream macroinvertebrate assemblages

Julia Y White, Christopher J Walsh

2020-12-01

While provision of in‐stream habitat complexity remains common practice in efforts to restore streams, the evidence of positive ef..

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More than money: how multiple factors influence householder participation in at-source stormwater management

Helen L Brown, Darren G Bos, Christopher J Walsh, Tim D Fletcher, Sharyn RossRakesh

2016-01-02

Urban stormwater run-off is a threat to stream ecosystems. New approaches to stormwater management aim to protect urban streams fr..

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Flow-Regime Management at the Urban Land-Parcel Scale: Test of Feasibility

Matthew J Burns, Tim D Fletcher, Christopher J Walsh, Anthony R Ladson, Belinda E Hatt

2015-12-01

Overcoming the hydrologic shortcomings of conventional approaches to stormwater management requires the protection or restoration ..

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Integrating stormwater management to restore a stream: perspectives from a waterway management authority

Toby Prosser, Peter J Morison, Rhys A Coleman

2015-09-01

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Overcoming barriers to community participation in a catchment-scale experiment: building trust and changing behavior

Darren G Bos, Helen L Brown

2015-09-01

Communities have an important role to play in the protection of urban streams, particularly with how stormwater runoff from their ..

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Restoring a stream through retention of urban stormwater runoff: a catchment-scale experiment in a social-ecological system

Christopher J Walsh, Tim D Fletcher, Darren G Bos, Samantha J Imberger

2015-09-01

Restoration of ecological structure and function of urban streams probably requires catchment-scale modification of drainage infra..

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