Sunshine Coast, QLD puts stormwater to better use with its Storm Watered Street Tree Trial

Sunshine Coast, QLD Storm Watered Street Tree Trial

In Progress

The suburb of Golden Beach diverts stormwater from streets and sidewalks to roadside trees. Sunshine Coast worked with Design Flow Consulting to deliver stormwater directly to tree roots. Council teams are observing the impacts of the trial on different tree species to calibrate future uses in other suburbs. This initiative provides consistent water supplies to trees without increasing maintenance costs.

Water Public Works Pilot / POC

Sunshine Coast, QLD

Regional council in Queensland

Australia

Newsworthy

Praise for innovative street tree watering trial

Sunshine Coast Council’s innovative pilot project diverting storm water to street trees in Golden Beach and Currimundi has been commended at a recent State-wide awards night.

Awards Recognise Industry Excellence - Stormwater Queensland

In early February, Stormwater Queensland held the 2020 Awards for Excellence, designed to encourage and celebrate excellence in the innovation, development, completion and management of stormwater projects and the people involved. Below is the full list of projects and project teams who took home an award, along with the comments from the judges. Winner of …

Project Succeeded

Sunshine Coast received a Commendation for Excellence in Research and Innovation at the 2020 Stormwater Queensland Awards for Excellence.

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