The details for the 2019 Stormwater NSW Conference are now live with full details at:
2019 Stormwater NSW Conference
27 – 29 August 2019
Pacific Bay Resort, Coffs Harbour, NSW
snswconference.com.au
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We’ve now posted the videos from the fish passage presentation in August. There was some audio problems but these should be manageable. PDFs of the presentation slides will be posted shortly.
Check out all three videos on our YouTube channel.
This post is on behalf of a researcher at UNSW.
We would like to invite you to complete a survey on how Australian Rainfall and Runoff (2016) is being used and implemented. This research is being completed by UNSW honours research student Michele Guild and supervised by Dr Fiona Johnson. We are interested in the opportunities, barriers and limitations that are facing professional engineers in using ARR2016. If you use ARR we would appreciate you taking the survey. The consent and participant information form for the survey can be accessed via the survey directly https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RHC78TM or downloaded from http://www.hydrology.unsw.edu.au/survey-on-australian-rainfall-runoff-2016
Splash is excited to announce that it has organised for Jamie Ewert of the CRCWSC to come to Sydney to deliver a special one hour seminar. The seminar will provide an overview of the CRCWSC and its research program, flagship research projects and emerging tools and products. Jamie will also present case studies of innovative, integrated water management projects that have involved CRCWSC collaboration with stakeholders across Australia including involvement in the the Aquarevo Project and Fishermans Bend.
The seminar will also identify collaboration opportunities for organisations that are not currently CRCWSC partners including the CRCWSC’s research synthesis program. Participants are encouraged to take this opportunity to ask questions about projects within their organisations that may benefit from the research synthesis program.
RSVP: kristy.good@blacktown.nsw.gov.au
Transport:
Three hour parking is available underneath the Max Weber Library opposite the council. Alternatively Council is only a short ten minute walk from Blacktown train station.
When: 1:00 – 3:00pm Wednesday 14 June
Where: Blacktown City Council, 62 Flushcombe Rd Blacktown, Nirimba Room
Hosted by: Splash, Hunter Water and Blacktown City Council
Seminar: Jamie Ewert (Monash University | CRC for Water Sensitive Cities)
This where you can provide a contribution! The ARR Team is calling for expressions of interest in participating in the testing. Simply email arr_admin@arr.org.au with details of who will be involved (your team or individual), a brief CV for each participant and which projects you would be interested in participating in. EOI closes 23 Jul COB.
Tests will cover a wide range of the design flood estimation process and will include:
1. Design Flood Estimation
- Regional flood frequency (RFFE) procedures.
- At-site flood frequency, using FLIKE.
- Rainfall-runoff modelling (RORB, RAFTS, URBS or other).
2. Urban Hydrology
3. Losses and Baseflow
4. Advanced Hydrology
- Monte Carlo analysis for the catchment outlet to analyse rainfall intensities, temporal patterns, losses and spatial patterns across the catchment.
- Continuous simulation analysis to allow calculation of a similar range of results. In this test, the results should also be prepared for both the catchment outlet and for an extra two points inside the catchment.
5. Coastal Interactions
6. Hydraulic Modelling
We are also interested in hearing from any state or local government authorities that have catchments they think could be used in the testing. The catchments ideally would have terrain information, rainfall gauges, a water level gauge, rating curve etc. The catchment can be rural or urban.
Note: All results will remain anonymous. The aim of the tests is to test the ease of implementation of the method not the ability of an organisation.
For the official advert, please refer to the web link.
Advertisement for Sydney Sustainable Engineering Society (SENG – Engineers Australia)
There will be an exciting seminar on the treatment of endocrine disruptors in waste water which is being presented by Dr Stuart Khan, Associate Professor in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales.
The seminar will be held at Engineers Australia Harricks Auditorium, Ground Floor, 8 Thomas Street, Chatswood, NSW, on the 29th July 2014 (Tuesday) starting at 6.00pm.
Presentation Description: Endocrine distributors found in waste water have been difficult to treat and as a result have caused abnormalities in the sex hormones of fish and other aquatic organisms. So what treatment methods are available today and how effective are they at reducing this impact on the aquatic environment?
Further information can be obtained from the EA website including the online registration:
It appears that the State government has started to implement some tools of the information age to catch alleged waterway and restricted area violators. As originally reported by ABC online news.