Master Planning our cities’ stormwater assets is vital for the sustainable development of our urban growth corridors – futureproofing our communities and ensuring resilient, liveable urban spaces.
As our cities expand, there is increasing demand to manage the stormwater flowing off impervious surfaces such as roads, pavement, rooftops, and hardstand. Subsequently, urban development places growing pressure on our drainage networks, catchment infrastructure, and downstream waterways as higher volumes of stormwater runoff are generated.
Building generational assets to meet our community’s needs for water quantity, quality, and conveyance is intrinsic to developing cities for the future. Engineered stormwater solutions capture pollution in our urban catchments, mitigate flooding, manage high-volume flows, store stormwater for re-use, and provide conduits to move stormwater effectively.
By leveraging strategic development of our stormwater network, we can facilitate coordinated, scalable approaches that mix proprietary and naturalised assets to meet the requirements of Water Sensitive Urban Design.
Strategic Planning: A Modern Stormwater Network
By harnessing a diverse, multi-asset approach to stormwater management, Atlan Stormwater builds systems that integrate with city-wide strategies for a distributed stormwater network.
These approaches increase network redundancy, facilitate scalability, reduce peak discharge, and manage pollutant loads, while creating sustainable outcomes through the protection of waterways and the creation of habitat.
Stormwater systems create tangible benefits that enhance communities beyond site-level – increasing land value, improving public amenity, ensuring compliance with regulatory frameworks, and preserving Joy in Water for future generations.
These concepts require coordination between many parties – developers, councils, regulatory authorities, utilities, and engineers – to integrate frameworks that guide the development of a holistic stormwater network.
At Atlan Stormwater, we collaborate with these stakeholders across all aspects of their project lifecycles – from design to manufacture, installation, and maintenance.
We draw on more than 50 years’ experience in the provision of stormwater infrastructure.
By establishing maintenance responsibilities and lifecycle costings, we work to reduce project risk and ensure our stormwater network performs.
Our Atlan city shows the ways our streets, industrial areas, residential developments, and infrastructure projects can harness stormwater – with a myriad of infrastructure, including at-source treatment devices, large-volume detention, floating treatment wetlands, and gross pollutant traps such as Vortceptor.
Together, we can transform our stormwater network from a developmental requirement into a strategic network of infrastructure that works in unison – driving progress and growth, building resilient communities, adapting to weather cycles, and protecting our lakes, rivers, and seas.
