Annual Report 2016/17 TABLE OF CONTENTS Who we are -------------------------------------------------------- p. 3 Welcome from the Presidents ---------------------------------- p. 4 Highlights and Achievements ---------------------------------- p. 5 Awards p. 6 Seminar p. 7 Technical Tour p. 8 Advocacy p. 9 Stormwater Management Service Charge p. 10 Capacity Building p. 11 Expanding Active Stormwater NSW Membership Base p. 12 New Website p. 12 Treasurer’s Report ----------------------------------------------- p. 13 Independent Auditor’s Report --------------------------------- p. 16 Secretariat --------------------------------------------------------- p. 17 Stormwater Management Committee ------------------------ p. 18 Sustaining and Corporate Members -------------------------- p. 19 Cover: Sydney Park, St. Peters. Image: Courtesy of City of Sydney Who we are Our aim Stormwater NSW is the preeminent To enable local practitioners and the professional urban water management broader community to learn about association in the state. We are a peak best practice and industry leading industry association with membership stormwater management and stormwater including the majority of councils in quality and quantity technologies. the Greater Sydney Region, as well as numerous consulting and manufacturing companies. Our purpose We have over 500 corporate, To support and be a positive influence institutional, government and individual on the growth and application of members drawn from the engineering, sustainable water management planning, landscape architecture, practices across NSW. environmental management, economic management, water resource management, education and community engagement sectors. Stormwater NSW is supported by the national association Stormwater Australia and a strong network of state associations in Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. 3 Key successes have been the build of our WELCOME FROM new Stormwater NSW website, the National Conference, and our local seminars and THE PRESIDENTS technical tours. Welcome to the Stormwater NSW Further successes and highlights are outlined 2016/17 Annual Report. in this report. Additionally, Stormwater NSW continues to actively work with the national The past year has been a period of body across a range of initiatives. consolidation and development for the Stormwater NSW committee. We started the Financially, we are in a sound position and 2016/17 financial year by reorganising the continue to meet our statutory obligations. structure and meetings of the committee, This position has allowed us to part-fund and developing a three-year business plan. two members during the 2016/17 period to undertake a water leadership program at the Our business plan for 2016/17 – 2020 outlines International WaterCentre. our commitment to delivering projects and activities that focus on offering better value Looking ahead to our next AGM in September for our members, whilst raising the profile of we’ll see both co-presidents step down. This the stormwater industry. will be an exciting time for new leaders to continue building on strong foundations, To do this successfully, we made changes expanding the growth and application of to how we operate. Instead of full group sustainable water management practices committee meetings taking place every across the state, and exploring ways to month, these meetings now take place every connect with the broader community. second month, with sub-committee meetings held on the alternate months to implement In September 2017, Stormwater NSW will host the business plan. The two sub-committees its conference in Newcastle and later in 2018 are made up of half the full group committee we’ll see the National Stormwater Conference and are chaired by each of the Co-Vice held in Sydney. We look forward to seeing Presidents. you there! The Conference and Events (CandE) sub- Lastly, we would like to say a big thank committee works through business plan you to all our Stormwater NSW committee deliverables associated with seminars, members for their tireless efforts in making technical tours and conferences. While the 2016/17 a year to remember. The hours people BMAC sub-committee focuses on deliverables volunteer to the committee demonstrates associated with business-planning, marketing, the importance of the industry, and our advocacy and communication. achievements are because of their efforts. During 2016/17 the Stormwater NSW Committee has maintained its emphasis on implementing a range of services to its members. These services provide members with exceptional opportunities for development of their professional careers through networking, improved access to industry events and the latest best management practices in the field. Richard McManus Keysha Milenkovic 4 HIGHLIGHTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS 5 AWARDS Stormwater NSW 2016 Awards for Excellence The 2016 Stormwater NSW Awards for Excellence were held on 6 July at L’Aqua, Cockle Bay Wharf in Sydney. An exciting selection of award entries made for a great night. Awards were presented to the following Stormwater National winners under four separate categories: 2016 Awards for Excellence Excellence in Infrastructure As part of the 2016 Stormwater National Awarded to Cardno Pty Ltd and Conference held on the Gold Coast Scentre Group for their Managing in August/September 2016, the 2015 Flooding of Warringah Mall in and 2016 Stormwater NSW Awards Brookvale Project of Excellence winners continued their success by taking out four of the six Excellence in Integrated national categories. Stormwater Design Awarded to Turf Design Studio and Congratulations to our NSW National Environmental Partnership with winners listed below: Alluvium, Turpin + Crawford Studio, Dragonfly Environmental and Partridge, Excellence in Asset Management Commissioned by City of Sydney for Awarded to City of Canterbury their Sydney Park Water Re-Use Project Bankstown, Optimal Stormwater and Bell Environmental for their Pollution Excellence in Policy or Education Control Device Cleaning Tender – The Next Awarded to City of Canterbury Bankstown Generation for their Stormwater Audit and Education Program; and Excellence in Policy or Education Awarded to City of Canterbury Bankstown Excellence in Research and Innovation for their Stormwater Audit and Awarded to WaterNSW, Centre for Education Program Aquatic Pollution Identification and Management, Blue Mountains City Excellence in Research and Innovation Council and Wollondilly Shire Council Awarded to Alluvium Consulting Australia for their Stormwater Pollution Investigation and Blue Mountains City Council for their Pilot Project. Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Green Roof Treatment and Reuse System Excellence in Strategic or Master Planning Awarded to Blacktown City Council and Footprint Sustainable Engineering for their Business Case for Precinct Scale Stormwater Treatment in the Established Areas of Blacktown LGA. 6 SEMINAR Stormwater NSW Seminar - Planning by Design: Creating a Vision for Sydney In February 2017 Stormwater NSW The forum was well partnered with Splash, a recently attended with over 72 established capacity building registrations representing organisation, to deliver a forum more than 49 organisations. titled Planning by Design: Creating At the completion of the a Vision for Sydney. forum participants were invited to stay and network At this time various government over canapes and drinks departments had been working towards to welcome in 2017. building a vision and planning for the future of Greater Sydney, and the forum was a great opportunity to hear from these departments. The forum brought together speakers from the Greater Sydney Commission, the NSW Government Architects Office and the Metropolitan Water Directorate, to present some of the key directions and strategic planning of these organisations. Greg Joblin and Andrew Jordan of the Greater Sydney Commission spoke about the recent release of the six Draft District Plans. Barbara Schaffer of the Government’s Architect Office presented on the governments ‘Better Placed: A Design Led Approach, Developing an Architecture and Design Policy for NSW’. Reid McNamara of the Metropolitan Water Directorate spoke about the pending release of the Metropolitan Water Plan and key components of the Water Smart Cities Program. Lindsey Beck of Lindsey B finished the forum with an introduction to the Water Sensitive City Index developed by the Centre for Cooperative Research for Water Sensitive Cities. 7 TECHNICAL TOUR Stormwater NSW Technical Tour - Illawarra In April 2017, Stormwater NSW hosted Feedback from the technical tour has a very successful technical tour to the been overwhelmingly positive. Illawarra region, south of Sydney. The tour attracted 30 delegates from across “The thing with these technical the government, corporate and tours is that you don’t just learn consulting sectors. from the presentations. You also The Illawarra region was chosen for learn from focused discussions its diverse landscape and the variety with industry colleagues” of challenges it brings to stormwater management. “I’m extremely confident that everyone who joined us for The tour had two elements - the first focused on key operational and the tour will become better maintenance challenges posed by practitioners and that to me stormwater management infrastructure, is a fantastic bottom line.” while the second focused on the compelling story of Lake Illawarra and - Tour organiser, Russell Beatty how it provides important lessons for coastal