Urban Waterways Renewal Project
Canning and Southern River, Perth WA
Total funding: Total project cost of $8.56 million, with funding of $4 million from the Australian Government under the National Water Security Plan for Cities and Towns and the remaining funding provided by the Western Australian Department of Water.
About the project
The Urban Waterways Renewal (UWR) project involves refurbishment of existing drainage lines into living streams to improve water quality, environmental flows and provide potential for reuse in the Canning and Southern River region. Stormwater management plans will be developed to retrofit existing drainage systems and restoration of natural drainage features, as well as capacity building in local government to improve environmental management.
Project benefits
This project will:
- reduce nitrogen and phosphorus in the Swan Canning River System
- convert existing urban drainage lines into living streams and by improving water retention and infiltration capabilities of compensation basins, stormwater quality will be improved and reuse potential created in these priority Canning catchments, and
- be implemented through 11 sub-projects with priority actions identified in the Swan Canning Water Quality Improvement Plan and the local Water Quality Improvement Plans for Bannister Creek, Southern River and Bickley Brook catchments.
Progress
The project commenced in 2010 and is scheduled for completion in 2013.
Links
- $6 million for two WA urban lakes and waterways projects - media release 3 March 2010
National Water Security Plan for Cities and Towns projects are funded by the Australian Government's Water for the Future initiative.