Stormwater Conference 2019 - Papers

Stormwater Conference


WEDNESDAY 01 MAY 2019
9.00am Welcome and Conference Opening [Millennium Ballroom]
9.30am Keynote Address: Dwane Jones, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development + Resilience, University of the District of Columbia, USA [Millennium Ballroom]
10.15am Morning Tea [Exhibition Area]
RECONNECTING AND RESTORING

[MILLENNIUM I]

INNOVATIONS AND COLLABORATIONS – SUCCESS STORIES

[MILLENNIUM II]

HARNESSING TECHNOLOGY

[TASMAN I]

HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF STORMWATER SYSTEMS [TASMAN II]
10.45am Scalable Cost-Effective Solutions to Restore Stream Ecosystems

Mike Cope, WSP Opus

Saving 450 Years of History from Tidal Flooding in St Augustine, Florida
James Logan, Hygrade Products
What is the Future of Stormwater Management for Transport and Urban Environments in New Zealand?

Richard Wilson & Tim Fisher, Tonkin + Taylor

Safenetworks: Reducing the Risk to Public Health at Auckland’s Safeswim Beaches

Jon Rix, Tonkin + Taylor

11.15am Climate Change and Urban Waterways: Alterations in the Flow Regime Under Multiple Ensembles  

Muhammad Saleem Akhter, The University Of Auckland

Green Square – Unlocking the Flood Risk Management Problems of the Past 
Nicholas Taylor, WSP Opus
Digital Tools for Innovative Public Engagement

James Sturman, Aurecon NZ

WSUD can be Cost-effective and Low- maintenance, not to mention all the other benefits

Jonathan Moores, NIWA

11.45am

Fighting an Upstream Battle – The Barriers to Implementing the Fish Passage Guidelines

Colin Jermyn, Stantec   

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Sumner Road Stormwater Rebuild 
Angela Pratt, Beca
High Resolution Stormwater Drainage Assessments Using GPU Acceleration
Bill Syme, BMT
Waikato Stormwater Management Guidelines

Megan Wood, Wainui Consulting & Brian Richmond Waikato Regional Council

12.15pm Lunch [Exhibition Area]
1.00pm Keynote Address: Chris Digman, Stantec UK [Millennium Ballroom]
2.00pm Networking [Exhibition Area]
RECONNECTING AND RESTORING

[MILLENNIUM I]

INNOVATIONS AND COLLABORATIONS – SUCCESS STORIES

[MILLENNIUM II]

HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF STORMWATER SYSTEMS

[TASMAN II]

2.30pm Regional Stormwater Management Facilities using an Engineered High-performance Biofiltration System 
Alex MacLeod, Stormwater360
A Coupled Wetland Biofilter: The Best of Both Worlds

Dale Paice, Beca

Improving Catchment Health While Reducing Flooding: the Opāwaho/Heathcote River Story Peter Christensen, CTN Consulting
3.00pm Characterising Load, Treatment, and Monitoring as Sources of Variability in Stormwater Treatment DevicesForrest Bilek, University Of Canterbury Whose Discharge is this? Collaboration between a Port and a City

Radleigh Cairns, Tauranga City Council

Wigram Basin Upgrade – Retrofitting an Existing Blue-Green Asset

Kate Purton, Beca

3.30pm Afternoon Tea [Exhibition Area]
RECONNECTING AND RESTORING

[MILLENNIUM I]

INNOVATIONS AND COLLABORATIONS – SUCCESS STORIES

[MILLENNIUM II]

HARNESSING TECHNOLOGY

[TASMAN I]

HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF STORMWATER SYSTEMS [TASMAN II]
4.00pmDredging to Restore Resilience to a Critical Christchurch Waterway 
Bryan Peters, Stantec New Zealand
How Will Climate Change Affect Our Two Waters?

James Hughes, Tonkin + Taylor

Culturally Enhanced Stormwater – Interweaving Mātauranga Māori
Troy Brockbank, WSP Opus
Cost-Effective Tools for Urban Water Quality Monitoring

Jennifer Gadd, NIWA

4.30pm

Te Auaunga – Flood Management Driven by Community and Delivering Significant Social and Environmental Outcomes

Mark Lewis, Boffa Miskell

The Stormwater and Tide Interface in Christchurch

Graham Harrington, Christchurch City Council

Quantifying the Contribution of Rainfall and Tide Levels on Flooding in Low-lying Coastal Areas

Cheryl Bai, Auckland Council

Dry Weather Discharges from a Monitored Stormwater Catchment 
Ed Clayton, Pattle Delamore Partners
5.00pm Auckland’s Approach to the Stream Erosion Problem

Josh Irvine, WSP Opus

Fast-tracking Floodplain Management in an Uncertain Climate: The Оpāwaho/ Heathcote River Story

Peter Christensen, CTN Consulting

Using Global Lessons to Implement Water Sensitive Design into Local Neighborhoods

Justine Jones, Beca

5.30pm –

6.30pm

Welcome Function [Exhibition Area]
THURSDAY 02 MAY 2019
8.30am Keynote Address: Rich Batiuk , Coastwise Partners, USA [Millennium Ballroom]
9.30am InnovationShowcase[Millennium Ballroom]
10.30am Morning Tea [Exhibition Area]

RECONNECTINGAND RESTORING

[MILLENNIUM I]

ASSET AVAILABILITY, VULNERABILITY, AND RESILIENCE

– LIFELINES

[MILLENNIUM II]

HARNESSINGTECHNOLOGY

[TASMAN I]

HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF STORMWATER SYSTEMS [TASMAN II]
11.00am

Engineering the Life Back into Maketū Estuary

Mark Townsend, BOPRC & JacobSteenkamp, Beca

Bridge Manual Waterway Design: An Update

Iain Smith, Beca

Adaptive Planning Using a Data-rich, Interactive and Accessible Tools 
Damian Young, Morphum Environmental
Regional Predictive Outputs for the NPS-FM – Auckland’s Freshwater Management Tool

DustinBambic,Paradigm Environmental

11.30am

Case Study: Sleemans Slip. A Grass Spillway Solution, using the Five Fundamentals of Successful Rehabilitation

Joe Johnson, Pgg Wrightson

Unintended Consequences: Stormwater to Ground vs Groundwater Drinking Supply Protection

Brent Hamilton, WSP Opus

Temporal Rainfall – A Risk-Based Approach

Andrew Boldero, WSP Opus

The Effect of Inlet Width on the Performance of Retention Ponds in Thermally Induced Flows

Ehsan Hendi, The University Of Auckland

12.00pm

Addington Brook – A Catchment Approach to Improving the Health of an Urban Waterway

Jenny Watters, EnvironmentCanterbury

A SystemicToolforaMulti-value Stormwater Management System
Ting Powell, e2 Environmental
Modelling Long-Term Volume Retention In A Bioretention Device

Jahangir Islam, Aecom New Zealand

12.30pm Lunch [Exhibition Area]
INNOVATIONS AND COLLABORATIONS – SUCCESS STORIES

[MILLENNIUM I]

CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH WATER AND OUR ENVIRONMENT [MILLENNIUM II] HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF STORMWATER SYSTEMS [TASMAN I] TRAINING & EDUCATION FORUM

[TASMAN II]

1.30pm Sweating the Assets: A Smart Infrastructure Approach for an Intensified Future

Roger Seyb, Beca

Reflecting Mātauranga Māori in WaterSensitive Urban Design

Emily Afoa, Tektus Consultants

Delivering Value for Money Water Quality Improvements – Evaluating the Retrofit of Proprietary Treatment Devices

Jackie Zhou, WSP Opus

Presentation of the Stormwater Education and Training Plan and the Way Forward

James Reddish, WSP Opus & Clare Feeney

2.00pm Enabling Factors for Transitioning to Improved Urban WaterOutcomes;Winston Churchill Fellowship Findings

Stu Farrant, Morphum Environmental

Back to Takanini – Pipes? Where we’re going, we don’t need pipes

Andrew Nell, Ar & Associates

Identification, Prioritization, and Mitigation – a Three Step Process for Stormwater Quality Management 
Kalyan Chakravarthy, DHI NewZealand
2.30pm

Rain Radar Nowcasting of High Intensity Rain Events in Auckland and Wellington

Luke Sutherland-Stacey, Weather Radar New Zealand

Solids & Colour in Roof-water Preventing its Reuse and Technologies to Remove Them

Ropru Rangsivek, Lautrec TechnologyGroup

Prioritising to Deliver Safe Waterways and Harbours, Catchpit by Catchpit 
Ying Yang & John Tetteroo, GHD
3.00pm Afternoon Tea [Exhibition Area]
INNOVATIONS AND COLLABORATIONS – SUCCESS STORIES

[MILLENNIUM I]

ASSET AVAILABILITY, VULNERABILITY, AND RESILIENCE

– LIFELINES

[MILLENNIUM II]

HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF STORMWATER SYSTEMS [TASMAN I] SAFETY IN DESIGN

[TASMAN I]

3.30pm Innovation through Collaboration – Community Friendly Wingwalls
Patrick Barciel, Hynds
Embedding Successful WSUD Asset Management Practices – Lessons fromacross the Ditch

Stuart Joyce, MorphumEnvironmental

One NDC for Auckland – An Adaptive Management Approach

Paula Vincent, AucklandCouncil

Public Safety at Catchpits – Lessons from Tragedy

James Reddish, WSP Opus

4:00pm

The Aquacomb Response to Shrinking Permeable Surface Problem – an Innovative Solution

Andrew Olsen, Construction SolutionProducts

Water Sensitive Design Performance over the past 10 years: A Road Map to the Future

Linda Norman, ACH Consulting

Climatological Variability and Limitations of Forecasting Extreme Rainfall StatisticsNick Brown, Auckland Council

Water Quality Sampling from an UnmannedAerial Vehicle

Tom Porter, Auckland Council & Thom Gower PattleDelamore Partners

4.30pm –

5.00pm

Stormwater Group Annual General Meeting [Millennium I]
7.00pm –

11.00pm

ConferenceDinner [St-Matthews-In-The-City]
FRIDAY 03 MAY2019
9.00am Keynote Address: Craig McIlroy, Healthy Waters, Auckland Council [MillenniumBallroom]
10.00am Morning Tea [Exhibition Area]
RECONNECTINGAND RESTORING

[MILLENNIUM I]

ASSET AVAILABILITY, VULNERABILITY, AND RESILIENCE – LIFELINES

[MILLENNIUM II]

INNOVATIONS AND COLLABORATIONS – SUCCESS STORIES

[TASMAN I]

10.30am Urban Development Stormwater Management – How to Achieve Excellent Outcomes Through Collaboration 
Neill Raynor, Aurecon New Zealand
Operation Dashboard

Alex Osti, Mott MacDonald & Andrew Skelton, Auckland Council

Wetland 1 at the Drury South Precinct–Opportunities within the Floodplain

Andrew Hope Tonkin+Taylor &Benjamin Loh,Boffa Miskell

11.00am Structural Renewal of Deteriorated Under-road

John Monro, Interflow Pty

A Successful Collaborative Story of a Boating Club in Achieving an Innovative Treatment Solution

Mariana Basilio, Stormwater 360 & Leon Blackburn,Auckland Council

11.30am Contaminants within urban waterways sediment and the implications for flood protection projects

Gareth Oddy, ENGEO

Assessment and Acceptance of New Stormwater Pipelines

Husham Issa Al-Saleem, Civil Consultant

Grahams Creek – Flood Mitigation when Engineering and Environment Combine

Ghassan Basheer, Waikato Regional Council

12.00pm Lunch [Exhibition Area]
Site Visits
1.00pm –

5.00pm

Site Visit One – AMETI

[Meet in Foyer]

Site Visit Two – West

[Meet in Foyer]

Site Visit Three South – Māori perspective

[Meet in Foyer]