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ArrayReview of stormwater quality to support the development of evidence-based stormwater recycling guidelines
16/10/2023
Final report available: Update to stormwater quality knowledge for Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling
As an alternative water resource, stormwater has a great potential to be reused for various purposes.
This project collated previously unpublished datasets from Australia’s water utilities and academic institutions about the types and amounts of pollution in stormwater from different sources, the best ways to assess the hazards and risk that stormwater poses to public health and safety, and explored innovative treatment processes that can be applied to recycle and reuse different types of stormwaters.
The careful consideration of the up-to-date sets of information will result in improvements to the Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling (AGWR) and will increase Australia’s capacity for safe stormwater recycling and reuse schemes.
The final report is now available (open access) via the Water Research Australia guest and members portal.
The final report summarises the project findings including stormwater definition, research methodology, stormwater pathogen, heavy metals and organic chemicals quality, stormwater treatment systems and risk assessment along with recomemndations up updating the existing AGWR-SW guidelines. The final report is also supported by two supplementary documents:
- Supplementary Document A | Statistical summary data of heavy metals and organic chemicals in stormwater
- Supplementary Document B | Overview of stormwater treatment technologies
This research is part of Water Research Australias Project 3048: Review of stormwater quality to support the development of evidence-based stormwater recycling guidelines published.
