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Maintenance of Stormwater Assets in Blacktown Council
Overview: Stormwater Sydney was hired by a client in the Blacktown Council area to address the lack of maintenance of their stormwater assets. The scope of services included cleaning and maintaining two gross pollutant traps (GPTs) and associated pipework, which were...
Water and Stormwater Surface Runoff From Your Neighbour’s Property
Do you experience surface flooding and puddles around your property and yard due to your neighbour’s water runoff? Water runoff after rain events can cause trouble for your property. This is made worse when the surface runoff is coming from your neighbour’s property....
Stormwater Design Development
Residential and Commercial Stormwater Drainage Designs with Certification Stormwater is water that originates during rainfalls. In urban, developed areas, where the ground surface does not readily absorb water, this stormwater becomes surface runoff. If there is a...
Stormwater Responsibility on Your Property
In Australia when it rains, it pours. These large volumes of rainwater and stormwater can often course havoc with our infrastructure and surrounding waterways. As such, it's useful to know who is responsible for stormwater drains in your state or territory when things...
Stormwater maintenance for strata communities
It's important for your Strata Committee to understand the requirements and responsibilities for the management and maintenance of stormwater devices on their properties and sites. All stormwater and rainwater assets should be inspected six-monthly and serviced every...
Filter Cartridges and Drainage Pit Baskets
In this article, we cover commercial and residential stormwater assets such as filter cartridges which are situated within OSD tanks. And drainage pit baskets which are catchment cages that are inserted into new and existing stormwater pits. To prevent trash and large...
Onsite Stormwater Detention Tanks (OSD) – Mandatory reporting and responsibilities
OSD tanks are simply onsite stormwater detention tanks used for detaining the stormwater from your site to ensure all development areas can be safely drained. It's a storage tank with a slow-release system to council kerb or street systems. The reason for their use is...
Registered Commerical Drone Inspections
What are drone inspections? With technology moving forward every year, more and more traditional industry practices are becoming unnecessary. Sometimes, even obsolete due to avoidable safety risks and duration times. This is because new, safer and more convenient...
Are you our new Sales Consultant?
Stormwater Sydney Sales Consultant We are seeking a sales consultant to help grow our stormwater maintenance and management business (City or West Location - flexible). We provide stormwater, rainwater and WUSD services including construction, inspection, maintenance,...
Stormwater Terms
As part of the urban water sector, we use many industry terms and phrases. The most common of these are stormwater and WSUD.
Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) is the design of buildings, subdivisions, and works to minimise the impact on the surrounding environment and waterways. WSUD involves treating and reducing stormwater flows, increasing soil moisture, urban greening, and providing an alternative water source. Examples of this include rooftop gardens, planted kerbsides as well as the construction of parks and wetlands in urban environments.
Stormwater, or rainwater runoff, is as the name implies – rainwater that runs off land, moving away from the area where it originally falls. In urban or built-up areas, it is commonly rain that flows across surfaces where water cannot penetrate such as roofs, driveways, and roads. It is carried away by a series of pipes known as the stormwater drainage network to our natural water bodies—creeks, rivers, and the sea.
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