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Melbourne Water Waterways and Drainage
Melbourne Water Region
Urban Growth AreasRegional Local
(MWC) (C
(Councils)
il )
channels
waterways 677km
8,400km retarding
basins - 219
underground
wetlands - 168 drains
litter traps – 53 1,463km
S d T
Sed. Traps – 76
Lakes - 122
levee banks Tidal
193km gates - 6
pumping
stations - 22
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Port Phillip Bay and Western PortWaterways Group
Programs and Services
• Managing Waterways and
Environmental Flows
• Managing
g g Water Q
Quality
y
• Flood Management &
Drainage
• Managing Urban Growth
• Monitoring, Investigations &
Research
• Community & Stakeholder
Engagement
g g & InvolvementExpenditure
• Capital and operating
expenditure allocated to
each main program
2008/09 to 2012/13.
2012/13Relationships and Performance
• Melbourne
M lb Water’s
W t ’ performance
f andd delivery
d li is
i “streets
“ t t ahead”
h d” off comparable
bl
agencies and authorities.
• Delivery is solid, satisfaction high among customers with timeliness,
professionalism responsiveness.
professionalism,
• Customers have some experience of - and now expect and want - more
sophisticated level of engagement ; more innovation, flexibility, leadership.
Trust in Melbourne Water (Waterways and Drainage)
MW DSE EPA CMA MAV Councils
85% 50% 64% 42% 72% 74%
“In
In all cases
cases, Melbourne Water was considered the most
helpful and empathetic of the organisations compared”Urban Growth Areas
Managing
g g Urban Growth –
Greenfields development Wetland system to protect
downstream creek flowing
through Holden Flora and
Works are identified in Fauna Reserve to Jacksons
the strategy, including: Creek.
• Pipes
• Channels
• Overland flow paths
• Retarding basins
• Bioretention systems
•Wetlands
Retarding basins to ensure
no increase in flood flows Harpers Creek to provide open space linkGreenfields Urban Development
Greenfields Urban Development
Winner UDIA Awards for Excellence - Water Sensitive Urban Design
Stockland’s Mernda VillagesKalkallo – Yarra Valley Water What • 28km north of CBD, 730 hectare site for commercial use • 3 sources of water: potable reticulated; Class A recycled water; treated stormwater (inferred resilience) • 1 ML/day of stormwater to supplement potable supply • Up to 90% reduction in net volume of potable water • Above best practice reductions in runoff and nitrogen
Brownfields - Docklands
Doncaster Hill Activity Centre – City of Manningham •Doncaster Hill Smart Water MoU with a primary objective to: produce an integrated urban water management strategy for the "produce Doncaster Hill area that is more environmentally sustainable than traditional planning methods, and accordingly produce a template for others to use in future planning."
Retrofit - Royal
y Park Wetlands and Stormwater
ReuseTransitions: Multi-phase
p
Concept
p
ocietall Change
Stabilisation
Path-dependant
Lock-in
Lock in
So
Adoption of only ‘efficiency’ innovations
Take-off Backlash
Unsuccessful adoption
p of innovations
Pre-development
System Breakdown
Continuation of 20th century
‘business as usual’ practice
Time
Van de Brugge and Rotmans, 2007Status of stormwater management for water quality
(WSUD)
Planning mandates
Sus a ab e funding
Sustainable u d g
Planning rules – allotment
Planning rules – subdivisions
Stabilisation
cators
Capacity building
Demonstrations/NPV
m Indic
Responsibilities
Targets/
System
Guides A l ti
Acceleration
S
Take‐off
Pre‐development
TimeStatus of integrated water
cycle management (IWCM)
Status of stormwater
management for water
quality (WSUD)
Stabilisation
ators
Systtem
Indica
Current Status
Stabilisation T k ff
Take‐off
A l
Acceleration
i
Take‐off
Take off
Pre‐development
d l
TimeThe whole is greater than the sum of the parts
•Flooding/drainage
•Water Quality
•Healthy ecosystems
•Flow
Fl impacts
i t
• Social Capital
• Amenity
•Water SavingsStatus of stormwater as an alternative water supply
(IWCM)
Planning mandates
Sus a ab e funding
Sustainable u d g
Planning rules – precinct/allotment
Capacity building
Rights/
g / Responsibilities
p Stabilisation
cators
FFP regulations
Community demand
m Indic
Demonstrations/
NPV
System
Planning of A l ti
Acceleration
subdivisions
S
Current Status
Take‐off
Pre‐development
TimeIf we are to
t proactively
ti l enable
bl watert sensitive
iti
cities: then there are also significant implications
for urban water leaders
leaders, and the process of policy
design and implementation:
– Selection environment: Active niche building as explicit policy
process – protective space for innovation and redundancy
(Accept uncertainty and indeterminacy) (Networks Gov)
– Proactive
P ti Policy:
P li T
Targeting
ti CCognitive,
iti N
Normative
ti & RRegulative
l ti
Change (Hierarchies, Markets, Networks Gov)
– Skilled professionals valued by decision makers – multi
multi-
stakeholder, adaptive learning networks (Networks Gov)
– Visions and social experiments: Envisaging and planning for
multiple future scenarios (acknowledging extremes and the
need for redundancy) (Networks Gov)
– Explicit discussion on the need for a transitions-based
governance paradigm
diYour House
Stormwater system
Melbourne Water Main Drains
Council drains
Local
oca Council
Cou c Drains
a s
Rivers and Creeks Port Phillip BayManaging Urban Growth - Redevelopment Recent subdivision Safe overland flow paths Old subdivision No overland flow paths
Urban Redevelopment
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