SE Metro WSUD Tour

Water Sensitive Urban Design: Self-Drive Tour (SE Metro)

This self-drive tour around South-East Perth will demonstrate some of the amazing WSUD assets around Perth. If you're looking for examples of best management practices, look no further! This tour will show you several sites around the suburbs of Southern River and Harrisdale, demonstrating WSUD in action. The guide gives details of the main objectives of each area and how they were achieved through best management practices.

The full self-drive tour document, including details on each site can be found below.

Self-Drive Tour PDF

Benalla Drive Public Open Space

This POS maximises local infiltration through a meandering flow path through grass and shrubs, providing water quality treatement of small events in vegetated areas.

Flowerfield Loop Bioretention Basin & Public Open Space

Flowerfield Loop borders a public open space (POS) area of Bletchley Park Estate which is characterised by a bioretention basin and retained native vegetation. The bioretention basin has been designed to treat local runoff generated during small rainfall events via native vegetation. The basin provides flood protection during rainfall events through detention of minor flows.

Lauraine Drive Public Open Space

This site manages rainfall from small and large events before entering Balannup Drain. It is also creates an interactive public open space incorporating existing natural bushland.

Panther Elbow Public Open Space & Tree Pits

Panther Elbow is a local street within the Bletchley Park Estate which borders a Bush Forever site and conservation category wetland, Balannup Lake. It also borders a passive public open space (POS) area which incorporates existing mature native vegetation and provides flood detention for runoff generated during major rainfall events.

Siroi Court Constructed Treatment Lake & Wetland Buffer Zone

This site showcases vegetated buffers adjacent important wetlands. Groundwater is treated, stored and used for POS irrigation.

Sotheby Road POS

The public open space (POS) on the corner of Sotheby Drive and Wright Road in Vertu Estate features a round grassed space which provides a dual function to provide attractive public amenity as well as detention of stormwater runoff for flood protection. Best practice stormwater treatment is achieved at this site through the use of grassed swales and flush kerbing along the boundaries of the POS.

Sotheby Drive & Wright Road POS

Best management practices at each site:

Southern River Sites:

Glenview Way
- Grassed swales
- Bubble up pits
- Flush Kerbing
Stillwater Street
- Walled bioretention basins in side verges
- Grassed swales
- Bubble up pit
Flowerfield Loop
- Bioretention basin
- Flush kerbing
Siroi Court
- Constructed watercourse
- Biofiltration basin
- A revegetated buffer to the wetland
- Public open space irrigated by treated groundwater
- Flush kerbing
- Tree pit
Panther Elbow
- Tree pits
- Flush kerbing
- Underground storage cells
- Bubble-up pits

Harrisdale Sites:

Benalla Drive
- Flush kerbing
- Vegetated detention area
- Bubble-up pits
Sotheby Drive & Wright Drive
- Grassed swale
- Vegetated bioretention basin
- Bubble-up pit
- Flush kerbing
- Head wall and piped connection
Lauraine Drive
- Grassed swale
- Bubble-up pits
- Flush kerbing
Peaceful Vista
- Grassed drainage basins
- Rehabilitated conservation category wetland
- Buffer to conservation category wetland
- Detention basin
- Flush kerbing