Introduction In urban areas, rain that falls on roads, roofs, pavements and other hard surfaces is usually swept across these surfaces as runoff. As runoff flows across these hard surfaces […]
Category: Environmental education
Mornington Peninsula Shire Industrial stormwater monitoring and training project
Mornington Peninsula Shire is developing a stormwater improvement program to target pollution originating from small and medium sized premises. The program has already been piloted across the Mornington and Rosebud […]
Pollution profiling and environmental assessment of waterways in the Upper Dandenong Creek region
Science driven environmental monitoring to inform stormwater education strategies and policy
Connecting planning controls with pollution profiling
City of Greater Dandenong’s stormwater management program has identified industrial estates as being major contributors to stormwater pollution. Contaminants entering local waterways impact the health of local waterways . To […]
Protecting Platypus in the Plenty River
Several pollution events have been recorded in Mill Park from an industrial precinct. These pollution events can compromise the health of local platypus populations in the Plenty River. The aim […]