Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD)
What is Water Sensitive Urban Design?
Water Sensitive SA best describe water sensitive urban design as "promoting the sustainable use and re-use of water in urban areas and buildings. This type of design integrates the total water cycle and water from all sources – including rainwater, storm water, groundwater, mains water and waste water – into urban development and building processes."
WSUD measures and tools can be applied to residential, commercial and industrial developments and buildings. They range from the storage, treatment and use of run-off to water-efficient landscaping. WSUD can help communities achieve greater water sustainability and become more pleasant places to live and work.
A Partnership Approach
Throughout eastern Adelaide, Councils are installing water smart solutions in our parks, streets and roads. This will create cooler, greener and more sustainable places for us to live, visit and enjoy.
As you are out and about over Spring, look out for our new signs on "Raingardens", "Verge Soakers", "Treenet Inlets", "Thirsty Pavers" and "Wetlands" - you’ll be able to interact with the signs to see these features in action!
The City of Campbelltown is working together with Resilient East, Water Sensitive SA and Green Adelaide to help ensure our City is more climate ready, visit resilienteast.com/water to find out how you can be more water smart too!
For more information or to see how you can be water smart too check out Resilient East website.
Resources
Or visit the Water Sensitive SA website
Cooling Campbelltown Project
Campbelltown Council received grant funding from Green Adelaide for a project to help address some of the challenging issues facing Council in relation to greening and cooling our city. This involved different approaches to planting trees in a few streets located in various high priority areas as well as getting more water to them in a challenging environment.
The approaches included installing "tree verges" where no space existed on the verge, building larger garden verge areas around existing mature trees when constructing a new road as well as installing 15 tree well inlets as well as some other water sensitive urban design methods to get more water to new and existing trees.
To date there have been 550 plants and trees and 26 street trees planted as part of this project as well as over 20 water sensitive design elements. There were also additional street trees planted adjacent to this project.
