Water Management
Chenoweth EPLA offers expert environmental and design advice for water-sensitive urban design, catchment studies and riparian rehabilitation. Our experienced staff of multi-skilled ecologists, environmental planners and landscape architects can provide stand alone management plans and design services, or specialist input to larger multidisciplinary teams. Our approach is innovative and integrates hard and soft engineering with environmental, aesthetic, open space and recreational planning. We have the qualifications and project experience to incorporate up-to-date research while still offering practical on-the-ground solutions for effective implementation. Importantly, our team is familiar with relevant legislative and town planning requirements and the expectations of approval agencies and the community, and can offer authoritative policy and strategic advice. We also have specialist skills in planting design, bioswale and detention pond details, habitat and food plant requirements for specific wetland and aquatic species, and the performance and availability of wetland plants. Chenoweth EPLA is also experienced in catchment management planning, community consultation, environmental management plans, erosion and sediment control, water quality and biological monitoring. We have a 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 valuable context for setting objectives for local waterway and wetland links. Other services include revegetation plans for bank stabilisation, landscape design for stormwater quality improvement devices (SQID's), constructed wetlands, detention ponds/basins and natural channel design. Our team is experienced in providing technical advice to and working closely with engineers to achieve water quality outcomes, and with developers and local governments to integrate SQIDs into parks and urban spaces.
| Catchment Management
Resource assessment & mapping, community consultation, flora and fauna surveys, creek bank stability & buffers, habitat corridors and networks, management plans to reduce impacts of rural land uses, development and extractive industries.
Flooding & Drainage Studies
Vegetation and habitat mapping, conservation values, natural channel and habitat design, waterway open space corridors & riparian links, bank stabilisation, in-stream habitat for aquatic & avifauna, revegetation inputs to flood modelling and retardation basins.
Environmental Management Plans
Project-specific Erosion & Sediment, Water Quality, Stormwater and Vegetation Management Plans as required for development applications & construction, on-site audits, staff induction and monitoring.
Waterway Rehabilitation
Site selection, strategies and technologies, planning & reprofiling, bank protection, riparian corridor planning and design, open space parkland and recreation facilities.
Water Sensitive Urban Design
Site planning and design to reduce hydraulic, hydrological and water quality impacts on and off-site, SQID design and placement, infiltration swale and vegetated bioswale design incorporating habitat, landscape design of creek/lake foreshore parks and recreational uses of water and land/water interfaces.
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