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Raising the Standard for Stormwater Delivery.

Technical insights, practical guidance and collaboration pathways to help industry design, build and maintain better stormwater systems.

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Raising The Bar

Moving Beyond Tick-the-Box Compliance.

Developers, civil engineers, and maintenance operators are often trapped in a fragmented system that rewards minimum compliance over true whole-of-life value. We are overhauling the industry by modernising maintenance manuals, establishing rigorous SQID lifecycle ratings, and building the national training frameworks you need to succeed.

  • Better asset performance

  • Safer maintenance outcomes

  • Stronger industry evidence

The Industry Challenge

The Operational Bottlenecks.

Maintenance guidance has fallen behind.

4 YEARS OUT OF DATE

The industry’s leading maintenance guide, the “Yellow Book”, has not been updated since 2022, leaving operators without modern safety KPIs, digital reporting templates and current field guidance.

Source: XXX

Whole-of-life costs are being overlooked.

UP TO 80% OF TOTAL COST

The historical focus on singular pollutant removal has caused the industry to ignore up to 80% of a system's true whole-of-life cost, including construction, access, maintenance, replacement and worker safety.

Source: XXX

Construction runoff can overwhelm waterways.

UP TO 200× MORE POLLUTION

Evidence submitted to an Australian Senate inquiry reported that construction sites can produce 50 to 200 times the sediment and particulate pollution of completed urban areas.

Source: Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications

Stormwater performance is measured too narrowly.

4 CRITICAL DELIVERY FACTORS

Stormwater assets are still too often assessed using narrow performance metrics rather than balancing pollutant removal, lifecycle cost, constructability and long-term maintainability.

Source: State Of Stormwater In NSW 2025

Technical Initiatives

How We Help Industry Lead Better Delivery.

Lift Assessment Standards

Supporting improved SQID lifecycle ratings that consider cost, safety, constructability and long-term maintenance.

Modernise Maintenance Practice

Helping move maintenance guidance from static manuals to practical digital tools, reporting templates and field-ready standards.

Connect Industry Expertise

Bringing engineers, manufacturers, contractors, researchers and maintenance operators together to shape practical reform.

Where We Make An Impact

Active Taskforces & Projects.

Practical working groups delivering better standards, funding models, research and infrastructure outcomes.

Maintenance Working Group

Modernising national stormwater maintenance standards for safer, more consistent asset management.

Active

SQID Lifecycle Rating Working Group

Developing clearer ways to assess stormwater infrastructure across cost, safety, performance and maintainability.

Active

Sustainable Funding Working Group

Exploring long-term funding models to support better stormwater infrastructure and maintenance.

In Development

Academic Working Group

Connecting researchers, data and evidence to support better policy and industry decisions

In Development

Technical Hub

Engineering Guidelines & Data.

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Turn Technical Expertise Into Industry Reform

  • 1. Join a Working Group

    Contribute technical knowledge to help improve standards, maintenance practice and lifecycle assessment.

  • 2. Share Field Evidence

    Help build the case for reform by sharing practical insights from design, construction, operations and maintenance.

  • 3. Pilot Better Practice

    Work with Stormwater 2030 and industry partners to test practical tools, templates and delivery models.
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Help shape the future of stormwater delivery.

Work with Stormwater 2030 to improve standards, strengthen industry practice and deliver better outcomes for waterways, communities and infrastructure.

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