The presenters from the recent WSUD afternoon event have provided the following information:
Letter from the organising committee:
Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to announce that the preliminary technical program is now available for the next NCWE 11th National Conference on Hydraulics in Civil Engineering, to be held 25-27 June 2014 in Brisbane, Australia.
The technical program will provide symposium attendees with a unique opportunity to interface with leading Australian and international experts in hydraulic engineering, with presentations on current state-of-the-art practices, latest research results, and practical case histories related to the design and operation of hydraulic structures.
Please see the list of tentatively accepted papers for more details.
STANDARD REGISTRATION EXTENDED TO END OF MAY 2014!!
To provide you with the maximum opportunity to register for this exciting program, we have extended the Standard Registration period to the end of May 2014.
I encourage you to attend this important event on the calendar for the hydraulic engineering community. Please see below for more information, and feel free to forward this message to others. The technical program will include:
The NCWE 11th National Conference on Hydraulics in Civil Engineering of Engineers Australiawill be held in conjunction with the IAHR 5th International Symposium on Hydraulic Structures. The combined event has the theme of “Hydraulic Structures and Society – Engineering Challenges and Extremes”, and will focus on the role of hydraulic structures in meeting the challenge of extreme events while addressing the requirements imposed by our growing population, the environment, agriculture, industry, and tourism for current and future generations.
Keynote lectures will include:
I look forward to welcoming you in Brisbane in June.
Robert Janssen
Chair, Organising Committee
Interesting upcoming event in May 2014!
The Sydney Division, Engineers Australia Water Engineering Panel will like to present a technical presentation on Water Sensitive Urban Design and Ecosystems (WSUD) by Dr. Jocelyn Dela-Cruz, Mr. Chris Derry and Dr. Marlène van der Sterren.
Dr. Jocelyn Dela-Cruz will be presenting ecosystems response modelling for councils and how WSUD can be included in this modelling while Mr. Chris Derry will be presenting on the field monitoring manual he has developed for bio-filtration systems. This will be followed by a presentation from Dr. Marlène van der Sterren on the quantity control of rainwater tanks and their impacts on onsite detention quantity control. The afternoon will be completed with a question and answer and round table discussion on WSUD. The agenda for the afternoon presentation is presented as follows;
| Time | Presentor | Topic |
| 12.30-12.40 | Welcome | |
| 12.40-13.10 | Dr. Jocelyn Dela-Cruz | Ecosystem response modelling |
| 13.10-13.30 | Mr. Chris Derry | Manual for on-ground monitoring of biofiltration systems |
| 13.30-13.45 | Tea & Coffee break – light refreshments | |
| 13.45-14.15 | Dr. Marlène van der Sterren | OSD vs rainwater tank debate |
| 14.15-15.00 | Q&A and discussion forum |
The presentation will be held at the University of Western Sydney, Parramatta Campus, Room PS-EE.G.36 , on Wednesday, 14th May 2014, starting at 12.30pm.
Light refreshment will be provided during the interval at 1.30pm. RSVP via EA booking system is now available.
A full PDF flyer is given in the link below.
Flyer Link: Water Panel Seminar – May2014
The Sydney Division, Engineers Australia Water Engineering Panel will like to add an additional speaker to the Student Honours Thesis Presentation. We are proud to introduce Lisa Pomeroy. Lisa graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Environments (Civil Systems) and has since completed her Master of Engineering (Civil).
Lisa Pomeroy – Estimation of Impervious Area for a Victorian Urban Catchment
There is great concern in Australia surrounding the effects of increased impervious areas resulting from urban development. With urban planning placing increased pressure on water sensitive urban design and increased runoff water volumes, the need to estimate imperviousness has become vital. Effective Impervious Area (EIA) is considered to provide a more realistic and representative estimation of the impervious area generating runoff. It is commonly estimated by means of the statistical technique of regression analysis using the rainfall and runoff data for the study area. Impervious area which connects directly to the drainage network is commonly termed Directly Connected Impervious Area (DCIA). It is commonly estimated through the use of aerial photographs and visual analysis. This study estimated the Effective Impervious Area (EIA) for the Kinkora Road Retarding Basin Catchment in Blackburn, Australia, and sought to determine if the estimation of Directly Connected Impervious Area (DCIA) is consistent with the estimate of EIA.
The presentation will be held at the Aerial Function Centre, UTS , on Wednesday, 30th April 2014, with light refreshments from 5.30pm for a 6.00pm start. RSVP is requested via the EA booking system.
A full updated PDF flyer is given in the link below.
Flyer Link: waterpanelseminar-30apr2014
The Sydney Division, Engineers Australia Water Engineering Panel will be hosting a session on Student Honours Thesis Presentation. We are proud to have Dan Morgan and Zhe Liu to present their Honours Thesis in the field of water engineering.
Dan Morgan – Application of Soil Water Balance Model (SWMOD) to Gauged Catchments in NSW
SWMOD is a distributed storage capacity loss model and was developed in 1989 by the Water Authority of Western Australia. It is an established method of rainfall loss estimation in south western WA. It is also theoretically possible to characterise this type of model anywhere in Australia using national soil maps. Today this type of model has extremely limited use in NSW and its suitability remains unknown. This project will test SWMOD on several NSW gauged catchments where the conventional Initial Loss Continuing Loss (ILCL) model has been applied. The selected catchments will include some where the traditional ILCL model performed well and some where it has proved problematic.
The flood hydrographs from each catchment that result from the use of the SWMOD will be compared with the existing flood hydrographs for each catchment and the hydrographs that have resulted from the use of the ILCL model.
Zhe Liu – A New Method for Verification of Delineated Channel Networks
Several methods are used to delineate channel networks. The most widely used are the contributing area method, area–slope method, and grid network ordering method. The number of delineated channels depends on the threshold adopted when using each method. However, the appropriate threshold value required to delineate channel networks, and their corresponding accuracies, are still uncertain.
The consistency between the delineated channels and actual channels can be evaluated by carrying out extensive field surveys, but these require significant time and cost. Accurate knowledge of delineated channel networks is vital, and is achievable more efficiently and simply. A new method of calculating the accuracy of delineated channel networks is introduced in this study. Channel cross-section profiles throughout the channel network were examined and three new incision indices were derived: an incised channel index, a partially incised channel index, and a non-incised channel index. The indices were found useful for setting appropriate threshold values for actual channel networks.
The presentation will be held at the Aerial Function Centre, UTS , on Wednesday, 30th April 2014, with light refreshments from 5.30pm for a 6.00pm start. RSVP is requested via the EA booking system.
A full PDF flyer is given in the link below.
Flyer Link: Water Panel Seminar – Student Thesis Presentation Apr2014
The NCWE 11th National Conference on Hydraulics in Civil Engineering will be held in conjunction with the IAHR 5th International Symposium on Hydraulic Structures. The combined event has the theme of “Hydraulic Structures and Society – Engineering Challenges and Extremes”, and will focus on the role of hydraulic structures in meeting the challenge of extreme events typical in Australia while addressing the requirements imposed by our growing population, the environment, agriculture, industry, and tourism for current and future generations.
Keynote lectures will include:
Early bird registration is now open with full details available at: https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/ishs-2014
Dan has kindly made the PDF of his PowerPoint of his presentation “CARM – Water when and where it matters” available for download.
The Sydney Division, Engineers Australia Water Engineering Panel is pleased to announce that the first presentation of the year will be titled CARM – Water when and where it matters and will be jointly delivered by Brett Tucker, CEO, and Dan Berry, Manager Basin Planning, both of the State Water Corporation. If the name for this sounds familiar it is because this project has been nominated for, and received, numerous awards, including:
The project, the first of its kind in Australia, will recover water savings of which 33GL will be returned to the Snowy/Murray systems and the remainder used to improve reliability in the Murrumbidgee valley. In addition, the system will reduce excess releases from the dams by up to 200GL on average.
The presentation will be given at the EA Auditorium, Chatswood, on Thursday, 6th March 2014, with light refreshments from 5:30pm for a 6pm start. RSVP is requested via the EA booking system.
A full PDF printable flyer is available for download and further questions can be directed to Chris Thomas.
This is a reminder that papers for next year’s National Conference on Hydraulics in Civil Engineering are due on 2 December 2013. I would urge you to consider submitting a paper to this important event on the calendar for the hydraulic engineering community. Please see below for more information, and feel free to forward this message to others.
The 5th International Symposium on Hydraulic Structures and the 11th National Conference on Hydraulics in Civil Engineering will be held in Brisbane, Australia on 25–27 June 2014. The symposium has the theme of “Hydraulic Structures and Society – Engineering Challenges and Extremes”, and will focus on the role of hydraulic structures in meeting the challenge of extreme events while addressing the requirements imposed by our growing population, the environment, agriculture, industry, and tourism for current and future generations. More information.
Keynote lectures will include:
Scour at Hydraulic Structures
Professor Bruce MELVILLE, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Hydraulics of stepped weirs and dam spillways: engineering challenges, labyrinths of research
Professor Jorge MATOS, IST Lisbon, Portugal
We’ve had to reschedule the full day event “What’s happening in flooding in Australia” to 27th November 2013. Full details are still available in our original post and registration is via EA’s website.
