Engineers Australia – Sydney Water Engineering Panel

How recent floods have informed one of Australia’s largest studies

Flooding within the Hawkesbury-Nepean River floodplain is complex, due to its large catchment area and confined sandstone gorges that serve as “choke points” resulting in large differences in flood levels between events.

An update to the Hawkesbury-Nepean Flood Study has been in development since 2020. As one of the largest flood studies currently being undertaken in NSW, it uses state of the art technical approaches to define the flood risk throughout the floodplain and builds upon the 2019 Hawkesbury-Nepean Regional Flood Study.

HWRS 2022 Abstracts Extended Until June 3

The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 11:59 PM AEST Friday 3 June.

All abstract submissions will be reviewed by the HWRS Scientific Committee. The Scientific Committee may accept or reject abstracts and their decision is final. The outcome of abstract submissions will be emailed in June.

Find out more about the HWRS theme and subthemes for 2022.

Reconnecting waterways to reconnect fish habitats

A multidisciplinary research team has made important progress on the operation of a new type of fishway, the Tube Fishway, which promises to be a cost-effective alternative to existing fishways. This presentation will provide an overview of the Tube Fishway operation, including progress in attracting native Australian fish and lifting these fish across barriers of 4 and 8 m. It will further provide an outlook into upcoming field installations.

Event Date Time 17 / 05 / 2022 12:00 pm–01:00 pm
Free Registration Closes 15 / 05 / 2022 12:00 pm

2022 Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium

The Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 2022 has been announced with a call for abstracts already out. It is scheduled for 30 November – 1 December 2022. From the Organising Committee:

“Engineers Australia is set to host the 40th iteration of the Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium from 30 November – 1 December 2022, under the theme, ‘the past, the present, the future.’

Join us as we look back at the work and impact of our industry predecessors, discuss current water-related issues and trends, and explore the innovations and technologies that are shaping the future of water engineering. “

Satellite Remote Sensing for the Water Engineering Industry

Start time 12.00pm AEDT 1st November 2021. Free for members but you must pre-register.

This seminar will outline opportunities and challenges in using satellite remote sensing data in water engineering. A new evapotranspiration product developed by CSIRO will be presented.

Are we still lossed about Losses?

The next Panel presentation will be delivered online via WebEx on Tuesday 14th July 2020 starting at 5pm sharp. Event is free for EA Members but pre-registration is required.

It is expected that as temperatures increase, extreme precipitation will increase resulting in more severe flooding. However, in Australia, there is significant evidence of decreasing flood maxima, despite increases in extreme rainfall.

This online webinar will explore changes in flood timing and magnitude from the AWRA-L. The result is a ‘worst of both worlds’ scenario whereby the rare flood events that are used in design of infrastructure are increasing, but smaller events, critical for water supply and dam storage are decreasing.

Call for Abstracts for HIWE2020

The first call for abstracts for the 2020 Hydraulics in Water Engineering is now live. Please check out all the details on the conference website and, to be nice to the organisers, submit an abstract early.

Drones and Remote Sensing in Water Engineering

The next Panel presentation will be deliver by three highly skilled operators and managers that have extensive experience in the deployment and analysis of drones in Water Engineering. We are being hosted by the Bureau of Metereology at their Elizabeth Street facility on 27th August 2019. Free for members ($30 for non-EA or BoM) but please pre-register and check out the PDF flyer for all the details.

Drone on landing pad in coastal wetland (courtesy Chris Drummong, UNSW WRL). — Drone on landing pad in coastal wetland (courtesy Chris Drummond, UNSW WRL).

Congratulations to the NCWE Student Scholarship Winners

Congratulations to the NCWE Student Scholarship Awards, in alphabetical order:

Nicholas Klein
Mitchell Knox
Amber Smith

They are pictured here with Brendan Berghout of the Kuczera Symposium Organising Committee.

Speakers for Kuczera Symposium

The organisers have locked in most of the speakers for the Kuzcera Symposium and its clear that this event is rapidly becoming the event to be at for Hydrolody theory and practice in Australia and New Zealand for 2019. Some of the highlights include:

National Testing Model and Big Data
Integrating drought risk and drought planning
Urban systems hydrology
Next generation stochastic data for water resource planning
Applying an MCMC approach to pipe condition assessment
Urban water planning methods: step change or trend
Practicalities and learnings from 2 years of ARR
Hydrological model development and parameter fitting

Early bird pricing closes at 5pm sharp Sydney time today (24th May 2019) and with the symposium a little over two weeks away there won’t be any last minute extensions.

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