City of Canterbury stormwater engineers have been undertaking catchment modelling for the first three sites on the Canterbury side of Wolli Creek. The first three sites are the two High Cliff Street sites and Paperbark Creek (see project map for more details). Although this is just the early stages of planning it is expected gross pollutant traps will be installed in these locations. Modelling is critical to discover out how much and how fast water is moving though the stormwater system in differing rainfall events. This information is vital to ensure any treatment measure will have enough capacity to filter pollutants out of the flow effectively.

The team at the Our River: Cooks River Sustainability Initiative have been running planning forums for the community to help plan for a sustainable water future for various sub-catchments all over the Cooks River catchment. The Wolli Creek Sub-catchment planning days begin this week! It is a great opportunity for residents to have a say in how they would like the creek to be as councils plan for the future. Anyone in the catchment can come and have a say.

The Cooks River Urban Water Initaitive and the Our River team?s outcomes will complement each other well, particularly in Wolli Creek where the subcatchment is just upstream of the CRUWI works. For more information and to RSVP to the planning forums check out the Our River website.