Stormwater QLD – Public and Private Assets: What’s the Situation?

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Time: 8.30am for a 9.00am start (concluding with lunch from 12.30pm)

As part of any development approval, local governments request developers to meet stringent stormwater quality requirements before allowing stormwater to discharge to local receiving waterways or adjoining public stormwater infrastructure. For over a decade now, these requirements have been met by use of various types of proprietary and non-proprietary stormwater treatment devices or systems, including Gross Pollutant Traps, Oil and Silt Arresters, Sediment Fore-Bays, Trash Racks, Litter Baskets, Sediment Ponds, Swales and Bio-Retention Systems, etc. All of these systems need maintenance in order to consistently meet the quality requirements of their design. When reflecting on our efforts in stormwater quality improvement over the last decade, a number of important questions arise, including:

• Are these systems, both public and privately owned, being maintained according to manufacturer specifications and/or design guidelines?
• Who is responsible for maintaining these systems? How is local government responsible for publicly owned assets? What obligations do private asset owners have to maintain these assets?
• What regulatory or incentive frameworks are currently in place to ensure these assets are maintained? What regulatory or incentive frameworks could be considered in the future?
• How does local government keep a track of these assets? Do they know where they are located? How much data or information do they have?
• How do they use this data or information? How do they store it? Who is responsible for it?
• To what extent are systems owned by private entities, other than local governments, being maintained?

Stormwater Queensland is hosting a forum to assist in understanding the management situation for public and privately owned systems and to find answers to the above. The event is recommended for those involved in urban stormwater planning, policy or development, asset management and maintenance. An expert panel from a broad cross section of the industry is being convened for this event to provide different perspectives on this topic.

An expert panel from a broad cross section of the industry has been convened for this event to provide different perspectives on this topic including;

• Claire McAsh – Senior Environmental Engineer, City of Gold Coast
• Russell Cadman – WSUD Compliance Officer, Blacktown City Council, NSW
• Aaron Marmara – Operations Supervisor, Cleanaway
• Mark Bibby – General Manager, Regen Australia
• Jack Mullaly – Crazed Founder, Ideanthro