Smart Stormwater Systems (Project Fact Sheet): Opportunities to reduce flood infrastructure costs and provide water for urban greening

Climate change will worsen the impacts of flooding and heatwaves in the future.

Smart stormwater systems provide improved 'smart design' and 'smart control' of stormwater infrastructure by taking a holistic systems approach top reduce flooding impacts and provide more water for urban greening.

This factsheet summarizes the concepts of smart stormwater systems and a range of industry case studies that show how smart stormwater systems

• Reduce costs
• Save space
• Increase Feasibility
• Adapt to Climate Change
• Increase water re-use for urban greening

This includes the development of physical prototype of a smart stormwater system that shows the enables us to measure the impact of climate change on peaks flows and demonstrate the potential adapt to impacts of future climate change.

This factsheet represents a summary of a project that received funding from

• Government of South Australia: Stormwater Management Authority,
• City of Mitcham,
• City of Norwood, Payneham and St Peters
• Environment Institute, University of Adelaide

The authors are very thankful and grateful for this funding support.