Urban wetland restoration

World Wetlands Day 2023 – Why is it time for wetland restoration?

Posted at 27 Feb 2023 at 13:58h in News, Urban wetland restoration, Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve, Wetland Restoration by Mark Bachmann

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World Wetlands Day was on the 2nd of February and the theme for this year is worth sharing, because it speaks so clearly to one of our core purposes at NGT. Yes, we couldn't have picked a better theme! It's time for wetland restoration While we often...

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Making sense of urban flooding in and around Melbourne – what can history tell us?

Posted at 27 Feb 2023 at 13:58h in News, Urban wetland restoration by Mark Bachmann

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Over the past several newsletters, we have talked quite a bit about flooding and its impacts in urban areas. These discussions occurred in the wake of the major rainfall events throughout last year. If you missed those stories, you can read them by following these...

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The recent floods continue to stimulate interesting discussion about how we interact with nature in Australia’s floodplains

Posted at 25 Jan 2023 at 13:02h in Urban wetland restoration, News by Mark Bachmann

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Over recent months we have continued to look at issues surrounding flooding and the way we interact with our natural landscapes in Australia, especially in urban areas. A lot of interesting discussion has been generated by the 2022 floods, so I thought we'd share some interesting...

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Let’s take a closer look at flooding, engineering philosophies and urban planning

Posted at 28 Nov 2022 at 08:02h in News, Urban wetland restoration by Mark Bachmann

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In case you missed it, last month we released our third discussion paper in a series that is looking at the potential role of wetland restoration in urban development, using the wallan wallan wetlands north of Melbourne as a case study. In the weeks since,...

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Reimagining the future of the wallan wallan wetlands – How historic information and modern tools can guide the restoration of burrung buluk (Hanna Swamp)

Posted at 31 Oct 2022 at 14:21h in Urban wetland restoration, News by Mark Bachmann

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Although this story has been in the pipeline for the past few months, it is especially timely to finally be sharing it with you now, as so much of eastern Australia is currently experiencing flooding at a scale that the continent hasn't seen in some...

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The big wet on the east coast – pausing to think about urban development in floodplains

Posted at 26 Jul 2022 at 09:28h in News, Urban wetland restoration by Mark Bachmann

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Over the past few years, NGT has been exploring the complex challenge of how to ensure that floodplain and/or instream wetlands which were drained and farmed as a result of agricultural development, are not subsequently forgotten when land use change occurs and such areas are...

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Exploring the ‘blind spots’ in urban planning around Melbourne that are impacting wetlands and waterways

Posted at 14 Jun 2022 at 12:45h in News, Urban wetland restoration by Mark Bachmann

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It's time to revisit an issue we've been talking about for a few years through the NGT newsletter - the challenges for wetlands in Melbourne's urban growth zones. Ahead of the release next month of a third NGT Discussion Paper about the wallan wallan wetlands...

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Another glimpse of Herne Swamp – Highlighting the potential role of multi-purpose restored natural wetlands in urban development

Posted at 26 Oct 2021 at 13:29h in Urban wetland restoration, News by Mark Bachmann

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Over the past couple of years, we've been exploring the potential for natural wetlands to be restored and enhanced as part of the land-use change process initiated by urban development. For more information on past stories, please follow this link.To highlight this potential, a recent...

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Cunningham Swamp: Another potential wetland restoration story in Melbourne’s urban growth zone

Posted at 30 Sep 2021 at 18:27h in News, Urban wetland restoration by Mark Bachmann

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Over the past couple of years we have started to discuss the stories of Hanna Swamp, Herne Swamp and the Wallan Wallan Wetlands as initial case study sites for exploring the complex web of policy and practical challenges that face wetlands in Melbourne's urban growth...

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Hanna Swamp has become a fascinating test case for urban waterway policy in Melbourne

Posted at 28 Oct 2020 at 13:55h in News, Urban wetland restoration by Mark Bachmann

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Back in the July newsletter, we released a discussion paper and revisited the story of Hanna Swamp, a long drained and modified (formerly in-stream) wetland of Strathaird Creek near Wallan, situated in the approved urban growth corridor north of Melbourne.Not long after the release of...

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