As GPT asset owners, particularly Councils, grapple with limited budgets and growing environmental responsibilities, maintaining these devices often becomes a significant challenge. This presentation delves into the core issue of how water disposal drives up maintenance costs and limits the frequency of GPT cleaning. With the potential of pollution entering our waterways due to budget constraints, the question arises: “Can dewatering GPTs onsite be a viable solution?”

In this session, Ocean Protect’s Daniel Rider will go through the legal findings from the legal review conducted as part of the Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) Maintenance Compliance Framework. This will look at legislation and the law in NSW, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia.

For this review, the following questions will be explored:
– Is it illegal for Councils to not maintain public WSUD assets?
– Is it illegal for private landowners to not maintain their private WSUD assets?
– Is it illegal for Councils to not enforce maintenance on private WSUD assets?
– Are there things that Councils can put in place during development to require certain things from projects with WSUD systems?
– Are there existing legal mechanisms for Councils to use to enforce maintenance on private WSUD assets?

Daniel will go through the findings for these questions and outline how this affects stormwater management in Australia.

The 60-minute session will include a short presentation by Daniel, followed by Q&A with attendees. A certificate of CPD can be provided to attendees upon request.

The 2025 Stormwater Fundamental Series is proudly brought to you by Ocean Protect. For any queries, please contact us.

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