Venue: St Peters Town Hall Complex, Banquet Room
Date:Wednesday 4 December 2024
Registration: 1:45 pm
Start: 2:00 pm
Cost: $50.00 (incl. GST) Water Sensitive SA partners
$85.00 (incl. GST) Non-partners
Event Overview
Join us at our upcomimg Community of Practice workshop to expand your knowledge on delivering successful swale and raingarden projects.
Swales play an important role in urban landscapes by disconnecting impervious surfaces from downstream waterways, helping to protect them during frequent storm events and improving stormwater runoff water quality. With the right plant selection and placement, swales can also enhance the aesthetic value of streetscapes and open spaces.
Sustaining vegetation in raingardens depends on various factors, such as organic and clay content in the filter media.
- Is the current filter media specification suitable for the Adelaide’s climate?
- Is supplementary watering essential, especially for batters?
Join us as we explore these questions and provide insights to ensure success for your next biofiltration project.
Event Program
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 1:45 PM | Registration | |
| 2:00 pm | Welcome & overview | Kerri Muller |
| Swales | ||
| 2:05 pm | St Peters Street swales won the 2024 AILA Water for Life Award for the innovative approach to streetscape swales. This design offers an exciting alternative to how we deliver streetscapes in the future. | James Butterworth |
| 2:25pm | The Dover Square carpark swale not only resolved a local drainage challenge, it transformed the local Tennis Club’s surroundings with a thriving micro-meadow, bringing biodiversity to the heart of the suburbs. | Shaun Kennedy
|
| 2:45 pm | Discussion – Learnings from our guest presenters and WSUD practitioners to inform SA guidelines for swale plant selection and placement | Dave Janzow & Kerri Muller
|
| Biofilter media | ||
| 3:00 pm
|
Biofiltration system media specifications and construction hold points. We revisit the industry standard specifications and provide an opportunity to inspect samples of the common media type available in Adelaide. | Dave Janzow |
| 3:20 pm | Filter media that can deliver high performing raingardens in Adelaide’s climate – does it exist and what other conditions are needed?
|
Russell King |
| 3:40pm | Discussion | Kerri Muller, facilitator |
| 4:10pm | Site tour
St Peters Street, St Peters Swales |
James Butterworth |
| 4:35pm | Close |
Who should attend
- Landscape architects
- Council design and construction engineers (project management)
- WSUD asset maintenance officers
- Horticulture specialists.
Presenters
Shaun Kennedy
SA Water | Vegetation Services Specialist
Shaun graduated from Adelaide University with an Honours degree in Botany & Zoology and has 20 years’ experience in the design and delivery of a broad range of ecological restoration projects covering more than 1,100 hectares and several prominent landscape installations featuring indigenous plants.
Shaun has a keen interest in improving the quality of ecological restoration efforts and urban biodiversity.
Landskap | Associate
James is a registered landscape architect and urban planner with experience delivering a broad range of projects, including landscape, urban design, strategic planning, environmental and gardens.
James aims to facilitate the establishment of places that are bold, engaging, and responsive to the local environment. James has also tutored landscape architecture and urban design at the University of Adelaide within the School of Architecture & Built Environment.
Water Sensitive SA | WSUD Assets Officer
Dave has always had a passion for the natural environment and improving outdoor areas. In his early career, after gaining a degree in Environmental Management, he started an environmental company providing revegetation and weed management services to councils and catchment boards. For two decades he also had a large garden design and construction firm. After a transition phase in life, Dave gained a fresh tertiary qualification in Environmental Policy and Management during which he discovered the marvels of Water Sensitive Urban Design.
Having worked in WSUD for 18 months including ten months as WSUD Officer in local council, he is applying his diverse skillset to assist our partners to manage and maintain their biofiltration assets proactively and effectively so they can achieve long term intended performance outcomes.
Russell King
City of West Torrens | Project Delivery Lead
Russell is a civil engineer with a passion for integrated, sustainable green urban form and function. Russell has formed and led design and construction teams on projects incorporating porous and permeable road and footpath pavements on reactive clay soil, ‘daylighting’ of urban stormwater systems, rain gardens for flow moderation and purification, and harvesting storm runoff for passive urban irrigation. He focuses not only on the project outcomes but also on improving how councils deliver projects, on intergenerational equity, and on making the world a better place one project at a time.
When he’s not in the office he might be on the ice hockey rink, searching out interesting cuisines around the world with his 2 tween girls, or perhaps just keeping his bees busy at home.
For more information, please contact Alex Hammett – Communications Manager on 0401 679 528 or alex@watersensitivesa.com