Managing water in Banyule
The Water Plan addresses the Council Plan 'Planet' key direction to ‘conserve water and improve stormwater’. Our overarching objectives are to:
- Minimise Council’s water use; and
- Improve urban drainage and stormwater management.
Our approach to these objectives focuses on;
- integrating both water conservation and stormwater improvement opportunities
- setting and attaining targets; and
- delivering education programs.
Water Plan Overview
Our approach to achieving Banyule's water objectives is guided by the following steps, to:
- Reduce water consumption
- Investigate alternative water sources
- Implement Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) projects
- Deliver education and awareness raising programs to the community; and
- Undertake improvements to urban drainage.
We monitor our performance through the following targets, with annual results captured within the State of Environment Report:
- Water conservation – we will permanently constrain Council annual potable water use to below 200 million litres
- Stormwater improvement – annually we will remove the following pollutants from stormwater:
- 55 tonnes of litter
- 150 tonnes of sediment
- 930 kilograms of nitrogen
We are able to undertake effective action around water by using a partnership model. This recognises that Council, the community and numerous stakeholders need to work together in order to identify and implement best practice water management.
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