Events

Stormwater Queensland in conjunction with Stormwater Australia are hosting an update session on the New National Protocol for the Evaluation of Stormwater Quality Improvement Devices will be held at The Greek Club from 1.30 pm to 3.00 pm on Tuesday, 21st June.

Background

There are statewide provisions for stormwater quality management in the State Planning Policy, and many local governments also have stormwater quality provisions within their planning scheme.

Over the past several years there has been concern over the lack of a clear framework to verify the performance claims for proprietary stormwater products, also known as stormwater quality improvement devices (SQID).  This has become a point of tension in the development assessment process.

Over the past two years Stormwater Australia has been developing a Stormwater Quality Improvement Devices Evaluation Protocol (SQIDEP).  The protocol developed this far has a particular focus on providing guidance on field testing requirements, collection, analysis and presentation of data, and ensuring the process is both technically competent and sufficiently independent to support confidence in the outcomes.

The draft SQIDEP can be downloaded by clicking the link below or alternatively please cut and past the following link into your web browser:

Stormwater Queensland in conjunction with Stormwater Australia will be hosting a public event  providing an update on the SQID Protocol,   This event will comprise of a general information session and open to a broad cross section of stakeholders and interest groups including manufacturers and vendors of products. Local government officers, consultants and other relevant stakeholders are also invited to attend in order to understand the basics of the protocol.  This event will be held from 1.30 pm until 3.00 pm on the afternoon of Tuesday, 21st June, 2016.

Cost:  

Free Registration is provided to members of Stormwater Queensland Members.  Registration for non members is $65 per person.

To register your place for the SQID Update Session, click on the button below, which will take you to the online registration form.

Online registration will close on Friday, 17th June

Should you have any questions regarding registration, please email registration@gemspl.com.au.

If you would like to know more about the SQID Update Session, please contact Stormwater Queensland on 1300 721 220.

Stormwater Queensland are pleased to present the 2016 Awards for Excellence Presentation Luncheon.

The award categories for the 2016 Awards for Excellence are:

• Excellence in Strategic or Master Planning
• Excellence in Infrastructure
• Excellence in Asset Management
• Excellence in Research and Innovation
• Excellence in Policy or Education
• Excellence in Integrated Stormwater Design

If you would like to register for this event, please contact Lilly Barker on +61 2 9744 5252 or via email lbarker@gemspl.com.au.

National Awards for Excellence

Under the Awards for Excellence protocol adopted by Stormwater Australia, only the recipients of the State Awards for Excellence will be eligible for the National Excellence Awards. Preceding two years of State award winners (2015 and 2016) will be eligible for the National Awards in 2016. Therefore, entry of a project into a State Excellence Awards is a minimum prerequisite for participation in the National Awards.

The National Awards is held every two years. The next National Awards will be announced at the Stormwater National 2016 Conference in Brisbane, Queensland on Wednesday, 31st August, 2016.

Should you have any questions about the 2016 Stormwater Queensland Awards for Excellence, please contact Event Coordinator, Lilly Barker on +61 2 9744 5252 or via email to lbarker@gemspl.com.au.

Managing Long Life, Hidden Assets

	Developed to assist asset management practitioners apply best practice in accordance with PN5 and ISO 55000 AM Standards for inspection, condition and performance assessment for stormwater drainage assets.
	Participants will be able to develop an action pipeline for how they can best progress their organization along the path to meeting the objectives of PN5
	Explore the practicalities of how to prepare and undertake a stormwater drainage network condition survey including sampling of the network and specifying the services of external providers.
	Learn about using the WSAA Conduit Inspection Code Appendix D for SWD
	Learn about using the AUS-SPEC Tools and resources for SWD asset management
	Opportunity to network and share your experiences.

Objectives

• ​Understand the use of the new PN5 to improve SWD asset management practice taking into account ISO 55000 requirements.
• Be able to follow a consistent approach to SWD survey and condition assessment
• Have the tools to scope and plan a condition assessment project to achieve application of PN5 good practice
• Learn about the latest trends for identifying and scoring of defects in SWD assets.

Outcomes

    These Workshops will give you the knowledge and skills to;

• Develop your own action pipeline to guide the journey for applying PN5 for your SWD assets
• Confidently update your SWD asset register and break it into its components
• Develop reports on the overall condition grading of the SWD network
• Produce risk based Action plans – maintenance and renewals derived from the condition analysis
• Have better information on which to analyse and report on valuations, depreciation and financial planning for the SWD system.

Who should attend

• Stormwater drainage asset practitioners,
• Engineers
• Asset Managers
• Technical Officers
• Field staff involved in inspection and condition assessment and asset management of SWD Assets
• Applicable to local government, public works or other organisations (public or private)

Presenters

• Alf Grigg | Principal A Grigg & Associates P/L
• Peter Way | Chair NAMS.AU, IPWEA Peter is project manager and principal author of the SWD Practice Note 5.
• Kirk Bloomfield | Manager GSDS
• John Thomson l Geospatial Integrated Services
  * Presenter/s will vary between locations.

For more information and details of a workshop in your area, head over to the IPEWA website by clicking HERE

Get the your own copy of the latest Practice Note HERE

The Report Card provides an annual assessment of the pressures facing our waterways, their current environmental condition (A-F grade), and the level of social and economic benefit the waterways provide to local communities (1-5 star rating).

As their organisation transitions into the new entity Healthy Waterways and Catchments, they have leveraged the combined skills and resources of Healthy Waterways and SEQ Catchments to further build upon their holistic monitoring and reporting approach. This includes working with the Council of Mayors to assess the risks to environmental values in each sub catchment. A component of this assessment will be released through the 2016 Report Card, identifying the sub catchments in most need of action to reduce sediment pollution.

To release the results, four launch events will be held simultaneously across South East Queensland.

Central Launch 

Host: Healthy Waterways and Catchments
Venue: Riverlife Centre – Naval Stores, Lower River Terrace, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane

Northern Launch

Host: Unitywater
Venue: Mooloolaba Yacht Club, 33-45 Parkyn Parade, Mooloolaba QLD 4557

Western Launch

Host: Somerset Regional Council
Venue: Kilcoy Information Centre, 41 Hope St, next to Yowie Park, Kilcoy, QLD 4515

Southern Launch

Host: Scenic Rim Regional Council
Venue: Tamborine Rainforest Skywalk, 333 Geissmann Dr, Mt Tamborine QLD 4272

For more information and/or to register your attendance, head over to http://healthywaterways.org/eventscalendar .  You don’t want to miss this one!

River Basin Management Society invite you to attend:

A Discussion on the 2016 Healthy Waterways and Catchments Report Card

“Please join us for a conversation with Dr Emily Saeck, Senior Scientist with Health Waterways and Catchments, to discuss the results of the 2016 Report Card. The Report Card provides an annual assessment of the pressures facing our waterways, their current environmental condition (A-F grade), and the level of social and economic benefit the waterways provide to local communities (1-5 star rating). This is the second year of the newly evolved Report Card, which provides a deeper understanding of the current pressures, benefits we receive, and importantly what needs to be done to protect and improve our waterways.
Please visit the Healthy Waterways and Catchments website to view the Report Card results after the launch on 16 November: http://healthywaterways.org/report-card”

To Register your attendance – click here

The SQ Management Committee invites all members, and potential members, to attend the 2016 End of Year Celebration event.  The event is an opportunity for members to provide feedback and ideas to the committee on 2017 event topics/speakers and new initiatives, and to express your interest in participating in a sub-committee next year.

The program for the evening will also include a short presentation from Mike Smith about “When Government Says “No” at Christmas”. Mike Smith is a National Director of Stormwater Australia, and the founder of Ethical Consulting Services, a consultancy all about communications – lobbying, government relations, campaigning, marketing and governance.  He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and has been a Company Secretary, and Chief Executive. He’s worked at UQ as a lecturer/course coordinator on government policy-making; he’s also lectured on government relations, governance, board effectiveness, elections and campaigning, as well as developing and delivering customised training courses for business, community organisations, university students, and to professional conferences.  His main recreational interest is elections, and he’s been a volunteer in five US Presidential campaigns, as well as managing and mentoring many Australian campaigns and candidates.

 If you are able to join us on the 13^th, please RSVP via return email by COB 6 December 2016 so as we know numbers for catering.

The Management Committee looks forward to meeting many members for an enjoyable evening.

Brad Dalrymple

President

Stormwater Queensland

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Time: 8.30am for a 9.00am start and finishing with lunch from 12.30pm

The commencement of the new Planning Act in mid-2017 has been a driver for the Department of Infrastructure, Local Government & Planning (DILGP) to review how State interests are expressed in the planning system. In November 2016, DILGP released consultation drafts of theState Planning Policy (SPP), the State Development Assessment Provisions and the Planning Regulation. These drafts can be downloaded from this website. The draft SPP includes some important changes to the State interest – water quality. 

The changes associated with the policy are likely to have some noteworthy implications for urban development, communities and the environment.

Stormwater Queensland is hosting a forum to assist in understanding how the Draft SPP proposes to change regulatory requirements for stormwater quality management.

The event is recommended for those involved in urban stormwater planning, policy or development. Submissions on the draft SPP close 10 February 2017 so the Forum is also recommended for any person or organisation considering making a submission on the water quality aspects of the policy.

An expert panel from a broad cross section of the industry has been convened for this event to provide different perspectives on the policy. The panel will include a range of speakers including: