Upcoming Events

Oct
18
Thu
2018
Interactive Panel Discussion Workshop – Stormwater Utilities – pipe dream or the way to go ? @ GHD
Oct 18 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Like all infrastructure, stormwater control measures (SCMs) and other Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) assets require appropriate maintenance to ensure they are achieving their original purpose. It is subsequently recognised that the operation and maintenance of SCM and other WSUD assets require significant and appropriate resources to ensure their appropriate function.  However, anecdotal and published information indicates that these assets are often not being appropriately maintained and are subsequently often not achieving their design objectives.  ‘Stormwater utilities’ have been proposed as one solution to provide a stable funding source for stormwater management.

Our upcoming workshop will be a chance to describe and discuss the current status of SCM management in QLD (for both privately and publicly owned assets), and describe/ discuss the potential option for future ‘stormwater utilities’.

The format will include short presentations from an Expert Panel followed by an interactive discussion between the audience and panel.  Come along, be involved and debate the many competing issues.  A complex challenge that requires broad discussion to provide direction and lead our thinking on this critical topic – don’t miss your chance to contribute in this important area.

Confirmed Expert Panel Members include:

  • Jonathon Whitcombe (Moreton Bay Regional Council)
  • Andy Hornbuckle (SPEL Environmental)
  • Charles Coathup (Renew Solutions)
  • Stephen Turfrey (Redlands Shire Council)

Cost:

  • Members and students:  $65/ person (incl. GST)
  • Non-members:  $100/ person (incl. GST)

Mar
6
Wed
2019
New Statewide Stormwater Strategic Guidance and Policy Documents Have Your Say! @ Department of Environment and Science
Mar 6 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Stormwater Qld is facilitating an opportunity for The Department of Environment and Science to provide a summary of the:

  • Final draft version of the State Planning Policy State Interest Water Quality 2017 Policy 5 (b)––Off-site stormwater quality management (‘Off-site stormwater quality management Guidance 2019’).
  • Draft Queensland Urban and Stormwater and Erosion and Sediment Control Strategy 2019-2022.

As these guidelines have not been endorsed by Stormwater Queensland we are facilitating this event as a way to allow our members and others to provide feedback to the state on both guidelines.   We believe that strategic overview and direction of important issues require feedback to help improvements in this space.  Because of this, SQ is providing this event free of charge as we really need our industry to voice their opinions and share their knowledge.

Date:  Wed 6 March 3:30-5pm

Where:  Department of Environment and Science 400 George Street Brisbane Qld 4000

No catering provided

Mar
29
Fri
2019
Stormwater Quality Improvement Device Evaluation Protocol (SQIDEP) – what’s in it, what’s not, and why not. @ GHD
Mar 29 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

After five years of consultation, collaboration and negotiation, Stormwater Australia released the SQIDEP document in December 2018. The document provides a uniform set of criteria to which all stormwater treatment measures (green & grey) can be field-tested and reported. These criteria should guide and inform field monitoring programs that seek to demonstrate pollutant removals for treatment measures implemented to achieve planning water quality objectives.

 

This SQ event will be facilitated by Sally Boer, Director, E2Designlab, and include an expanded list of speakers.  Alan Hoban, Director, Bligh Tanner, will present on the consultation process and development of the SQIDEP and future.  This will be followed by a presentation from Darren Drapper, Principal, Drapper Environmental Consultants, on the SQIDEP technical content and practical implementation.  Following these two presentations a panel of speakers will each provide a short summary of their thoughts on the SQIDEP.  The panel will comprise:  Andy Hornbuckle, SPEL Environmental; Mike Wicks, Stormwater360; Charles Kelly, Humes; Stephen Baker, Rocla; and Andew Macklin, Urban Asset Solutions.  Following the panel discussion, you’ll have an opportunity to ask your questions about this important industry benchmark.

Don’t miss this chance to be at the leading edge of this significant step-change in our industry.  Following the workshop, there will be an opportunity for networking and further informal discussions over drinks and canapés with industry colleagues.

If you are not currently a Stormwater Queensland member, apply to join today and attend this event at the dicounted member rates. Apply here

Feb
4
Thu
2021
Stormwater Queensland Awards For Excellence 2020 @ Newstead Brewing Co
Feb 4 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

EVENT CHANGE –

With the easing COVID19 restrictions, SQ is proud to announce a change to the proposed Excellence Awards Webinar to a face-to-face event in February.  Come along to celebrate some of the great stormwater projects of the year, catch up with some old industry friends over a couple of drinks and meet a few new ones!

In Queensland, we have a history of excellence across every aspect of stormwater management. From outstanding examples of master planning to integrated stormwater design, the awards provide an outstanding opportunity to showcase the quality of our work and the beneficial impact it has on keeping our vital waterways healthy.

The 2020 entry categories include:

  • Excellence in Strategic or Master Planning (Sponsored by Ocean Protect)
  • Excellence in Infrastructure
  • Excellence in Asset Management
  • Excellence in Research and Innovation
  • Excellence in Policy or Education
  • Excellence in Integrated Stormwater Design

 

Feb
17
Thu
2022
Webinar: Future Hydrologic Targets for Stormwater Management in Queensland
Feb 17 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Webinar: Future Hydrologic Targets for Stormwater Management in Queensland

Healthy freshwater streams rely on may factors that are strongly influenced by hydrology and not related to water quality. The Healthy Land & Water Blueprint for Improving Waterway Management (2020) advocates for a change to the SPP to introduce new targets such as flow controls to reduce detrimental impacts from urban flow increases.

Tony Weber, one of the authors of the blueprint, will discuss why such targets are needed to protect Queensland’s waterways. He will also review the development and application of hydrological targets for stormwater, currently taking place in other states and how such targets can be assessed.

Carl Tippler will also cover ecological requirements of streams and their links to hydrology, along with some case study examples.

This 1-hour webinar is hosted by Stormwater Queensland and will include presentations from Tony and Carl, followed by Q&A with attendees.

Proof of CPD will be provided to attendees upon request to Stormwater Queensland.

Feb
24
Thu
2022
WEBINAR: Are levees a reasonable method of protection?
Feb 24 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
WEBINAR: Are levees a reasonable method of protection?

The recent January flooding in Maryborough, saw the failure of a temporary flood barrier, that caused a change in the emergency management of the township. Designing, constructing and maintaining levees are important to ensure they can be used as a means of flood protection. We have brought together a panel of international (Netherlands) and local (Queensland) professionals, to get a glimpse into their experiences and then open the floor to your questions.

This 1-hour webinar, hosted by Stormwater Queensland, will include presentations from Dion Jones, Christian Huising and Brendan Wallace, followed by a Q&A with attendees.

Cost $15 – Proof of CPD will be provided to attendees upon request to Stormwater Queensland.

Mar
22
Tue
2022
WEBINAR: Embodied Carbon Emissions – A new criteria needed for pipe material selection in SEQ
Mar 22 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
WEBINAR: Embodied Carbon Emissions – A new criteria needed for pipe material selection in SEQ

This webinar seeks to disrupt the current method of selecting a pipe where only constructability, durability and cost are considered. New criteria, embodied carbon and operational energy, must be considered in order to reduce the environmental impact of pipeline, sewerage and drainage projects.

The presentation uses a method of calculating embodied carbon emissions of approved materials, rather than proposing new materials. Therefore, this tool can be used to reduce carbon emissions immediately, at a critical time for climate change and contributes to an analysis, that will assist water utilities in South-East Queensland (SEQ) to make informed decisions about which approved pipe materials have the least embodied carbon emissions.

This 1-hour webinar is hosted by Stormwater Queensland and will include presentations, followed by Q&A with attendees.

Cost $10 – Proof of CPD will be provided to attendees upon request to Stormwater Queensland.

Mar
29
Tue
2022
franc.sydney 2022 @ Dockside Darling Harbour
Mar 29 – Mar 30 all-day
franc.sydney 2022 @ Dockside Darling Harbour

franc.sydney 2022 is powered by Stormwater NSW and is all about challenging the rationality of current practices and perceptions of urban stormwater and its management. It is a community of individuals and organisations who are, in some way, connected to or effected by urban stormwater and are passionate about changing the way the industry operates to become more future-focused, resilient, adaptive and connected.

The stormwater industry has, for decades, tried to shift the balance between vested interests and the greater good, but it has become clear that it can’t do this alone. So franc.sydney 2022 brings together individuals from beyond stormwater to tackle this issue together. Our members include professionals, scientists, academics, researchers and advocates that recognise the need for change, the need to put the long-term prosperity of the health of our waterways, emissions and sustainable development above short-term political and financial interests. Most importantly, we bring these people together to help us all speak with one voice.

And it all begins by having ‘franc’ discussions.

This conference has a total of seventeen (17) guest speakers (up from the traditional four), and will include a range of new topics including:

  • How to develop resilient communities.
  • The relationship between the environment and human health.
  • Finding ways to help protect our aquatic environment and conserve biodiversity; and

Conversations between scientists, planners, hydrologists, environmentalists and academics to ensure we are all on the ‘same page’ going forward.

Franc.Sydney has also moved to become a hybrid event giving everyone the opportunity to be a part of franc either in person or from the comfort of your own home. In-person and virtual registrations are exchangeable at the rate you paid (early bird, standard) if you are to change your mind closer to the date.

Apr
8
Fri
2022
WEBINAR: KEEPING OUR HEADS ABOVE WATER – MENTAL HEALTH IN THE STORMWATER INDUSTRY
Apr 8 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
WEBINAR: KEEPING OUR HEADS ABOVE WATER - MENTAL HEALTH IN THE STORMWATER INDUSTRY

Do you find the your work is affecting your mental health? Was that 20th drainage re-design one too many? Do you feel as though your clients still don’t care about water quality outcomes, even in 2022?

Come along to this panel discussion to hear from some diverse voices who’ve been there and seen that. This event aims to proactively review the pressures of mental health, uniquely to stormwater professionals, and how we can work together to overcome them as an industry.

This free  1-hour webinar is hosted by Stormwater Queensland and will include presentations, followed by Q&A with attendees.

Proof of CPD will be provided to attendees upon request to Stormwater Queensland.

Aug
4
Thu
2022
The Future of Stormwater in Queensland – Panel Discussion and Networking @ ARUP
Aug 4 @ 3:15 pm – 6:00 pm
The Future of Stormwater in Queensland - Panel Discussion and Networking @ ARUP

Stormwater Queensland are hosting a Member’s only exclusive event ‘The Future of Stormwater Management in Queensland‘,  face to face panel discussion and networking event in Brisbane, Thursday 4th August 3:15-6pm. The event is FREE for all Stormwater Queensland Members but seating is limited, however there is also an option for virtual attendance.

This event will be a highly interactive discussion with a panel of Stormwater Queensland committee members, about ‘The Future of Stormwater Management in Queensland’. We will consider the current state of our industry and the changes needed to meet the challenges of the future. The session will include a Q&A with attendees and virtual attendees can also contribute questions prior to the event. Afterwards light refreshments will be provided and an opportunity to network with fellow Stormwater Queensland members. We look forward to seeing you there.

Do you want to attend but aren’t a member – we are offering tickets that can be purchased to attend ($88), but to save costs, why not become a member! Visit here for more information.