Stormwater Management Opportunities within Urban Redevelopments

To control a city’s urban expansion and minimise the city’s environmental effects it is becoming more critical to look within existing urban boundaries for development opportunities.

Urban redevelopment provides opportunity to not only maintain existing stormwater quantity and quality, but to improve the existing stormwater situation. By involving engineers, landscape architects, planners and the community, environmentally and economically viable solutions can be developed to reduce the strain on existing or ageing infrastructure and improve existing environmental conditions within a catchment.

Drawing on experience gained from various projects, from the UK, Australia and around New Zealand, this paper will discuss examples of how engineered solutions can be integrated throughout developments, providing environmentally beneficial and economically viable solutions to manage and improve stormwater conditions within existing urban areas.