Case studies

Water Sensitive SA continues to develop case studies to demonstrate the innovative ways local government, state government and the development industry are transforming the urban landscape to enhance the liveability of communities through better water sensitive urban design.

Lightsview
It is the streetscapes that currently sets Lightsview apart from other developments in Adelaide.

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Randolph Avenue streetscape upgrade, Fullarton

A series of ten raingardens treat stormwater and 31 stormwater infiltration wells provide passive irrigation for new street trees.

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Burnside B-Pods

Catch it, keep it, use it: Burnside City Council’s B-Pod stormwater retention cells support young and established street trees and a community landscaping project in the nature strip.

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Oaklands Park stormwater harvest & re-use project

Stormwater treatment wetland integrated into urban parkland that contributes to an aquifer storage and recovering scheme, which supplies water for irrigation of local parks and sporting fields.

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Green infrastructure case studies

First Creek MAR scheme, Botanic Gardens. Image Water Technology

Wetland & stormwater reuse – First Creek Wetland, Adelaide Botanic Gardens ^PDF

Raingardens, Waymouth Street, Adelaide ^PDF

Dunstone Grove, Linde Reserve, Stepney

Biofilters & managed aquifer recharge, Linde Reserve, Dunstone Grove, Stepney ^PDF

Medium density residential development, Christie Walk, Sturt Street, Adelaide ^PDF

Other case studies

Bioretention swale at Oaklands Station, Oaklands Park. Source: Source: Department of Planning and Local Government

Bioretention swale, Oaklands Station, Oaklands Park ^PDF

Bioretention sump at Parafield Station, Parafield Gardens. Source: Source: Department of Planning and Local Government

Bioretention sump, Parafield Station, Parafield Gardens ^PDF

Detention swale at Goldenfields Reserve, Golden Grove. Source_City of Tea Tree Gully

Detention swales, Goldenfields Reserve, Golden Grove ^PDF

Biofilter swale, Bulkana Oval, Tea Tree Gully Source: City of Tea Tree Gully

Biofilter swale, Bulkana Oval, Tea Tree Gully ^PDF

Doughty Street, Mount Gambier retention ponds. Source: Department of Planning and Local Government

Retention ponds , Doughty Street, Mount Gambier ^PDF

Acknowledgement of Country

Water Sensitive SA acknowledges Aboriginal people as the First Peoples and Nations of the lands and waters we live and work upon, and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge and respect the deep spiritual connection and the relationship that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have to Country.