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Stormwater Management

Parkes Shire Council has undertaken a programme to improve the quality of stormwater runoff from the Parkes urban area. The driving force behind this programme has been the Parkes Urban Stormwater Management Plan. The development of this Plan highlighted a number of stormwater issues affecting stormwater quality. Appropriate management options to address these issues were developed along with an implementation plan, which prioritised various actions.

Background

Council completed the Stormwater Management Plan for Parkes in 2000. The primary purpose of this Plan is to improve the health and quality of the waterways in Parkes, which flow into Goobang Creek. The Plan will contribute to this objective by:

* Facilitating a co-operative approach to Stormwater management on a catchment basis where more than one stormwater manager is present;
* Identify management priorities and actions for councils and other stormwater managers within a catchment. This will enable organisations to be better prepared to apply for external sources of funding; and by
* Establishing a programme of actions identified on a catchment basis that can be integrated with Councils' management planning process under the Local Government Act. The Plan has provided Council with direction and there is now a more co-ordinated approach to addressing stormwater pollution within Parkes.

The Plan identified two obvious "Hot Spots" in town that were greatly affected by urban runoff, Bushmans Dam (Kelly Reserve) and PAC Park Creek. Two major projects have been undertaken to address the "Hot Spots". they are, to reconstruct and rehabilitate Bushmans Dam and to install a gross pollutant trap at a major stormwater discharge point into PAC Park with complementing education programme.

Information on Drainage Maintenance & Construction

Link to Stormwater Educational Information available from Environment Protection Authority

Contact details
Parkes Shire Council
02 6861 2343 (ph)
02 6862 3946 (fax)
council@parkes.nsw.gov.au

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