Water and Wetland Management
The integrated environmental, landscape design and planning capabilities of Cardno Chenoweth are an appropriate combination for Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) and Total Water Cycle Management studies, as part of multi-disciplinary teams. Our skills and experience include plant species and media specification for WSUD, and the factors which contribute to success and failure to achieve undertaken environmental and open space assessments, community consultation and collaboration with hydrologists and planners in Integrated Catchment Management (ICM) studies. Our team is also skilled and experienced in wetland definition, mapping, buffers and management, and in riparian rehabilitation projects and guidelines. In this rapidly-changing field, high priority is placed on continuing professional development, collaboration and research networks regarding current best practice WSUD. We collaborate with water engineers to achieve water quality outcomes by contributing ecological and landscape design advice, and with developers and local governments to integrate water management into parks, drainage services and urban spaces. Our approach is innovative and integrates hard and soft engineering with environmental, aesthetic, open space and recreational planning and water management, within the relevant legislative and town planning requirements and the expectations of approval agencies and the community. Cardno Chenoweth has particular expertise in riparian planning and rehabilitation, in both urban and rural catchments, and in weed control and management. Our expertise in nature conservation priorities and corridor planning, at regional and city-wide scales, provides a context for local waterway and wetland links. | Water Sensitive Urban Design
Site planning and design to reduce hydraulic, hydrological and water quality impacts on and off-site, infiltration swale and vegetated bioswale design incorporating habitat, landscape design of creek/lake foreshore parks and recreational uses of water and land/water interfaces.
Wetland Mapping Identification and mapping of wetlands, buffers and appropriate land uses, habitat of wetland-dependant species for wetland management. Waterway Restoration Site selection, strategies and technologies, planning and reprofiling, bank protection, revegetation plans for bank stabilisation, riparian corridor planning and design, open space parkland and recreation facilities; weed management strategies and control specifications. Catchment Management Resource assessment and mapping, community consultation, flora and fauna surveys, State Government Policy requirements, watercourse bank stability and buffers, grazing pressures, fencing and stock access, biomass indicators, habitat corridors and networks, management plans to reduce impacts of adjacent or in-stream uses, and integration of TWCM.
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