Technical Tour
The Franc.2026 post-conference technical tour will visit three locales that highlight the Territory's efforts to improve stormwater management. The Tour will take place on Friday, 30 October from 9:00am to 3:10pm. Transport and catering will be provided.
Trudy Green is eWater’s Head of Partnerships, leading collaboration with governments, agencies, and organisations that rely on eWater’s hydrological modelling platforms, MUSIC™ and Source™. Her focus is on building strong partnerships that ensure these critical tools continue to evolve and meet the changing needs of Australia’s water sector and modelling community.
With more than 25 years’ experience across the water industry, Trudy brings deep expertise in water resource management, stormwater, catchment management, and strategic water planning. Her career spans key roles with Sydney Water, the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management Authority, and the Murray-Darling Basin Authority.
Career highlights include contributing to Sydney’s first cross-government water security plan, embedding lessons from the Millennium Drought into River Murray operations, and helping drive major enhancements to both the eWater Source and MUSIC platforms to reflect contemporary water management practice.
Trudy holds a Bachelor of Environmental Science (Honours) and a Master of Natural Resource Management.
Registration
Member
$ 225
Non-Member
$ 300
Lake Tuggeranong
Ralph Ogden, former Program Manager for ACT Healthy Waterways
We will first visit several sites in Tuggeranong, where Lake Tuggeranong, intended as a centerpiece for the district, is badly impacted by blue-green algal blooms. The ACT Government has recently released a plan to reduce stormwater pollution that is driving algal blooms in the lake. We will discuss:
The relative roles of pollution prevention and the construction of retrofitted WSUD assets—especially raingardens and wetlands—in reaching pollution reduction targets.
The contribution that two popular WSUD asset designs—the partial re-naturalisation of concrete stormwater channels and floating wetlands on the lake—can make to reducing pollution, and the challenges inherent in maintaining these types of asset.
Added benefits of WSUD assets to biodiversity, amenity, recreation etc. in the district.
Whitlam Greenfield Development
Speaker details to follow
There are attempts by private and public developers to create more water-sensitive suburbs in the ACT. We will visit Whitlam, a suburb developed in the Molonglo River valley by the ACT Government and designed for sustainable living. We will discuss:
The WSUD elements of the suburb design.
How strong is the WSUD, e.g. will it avoid the sort of pollution levels observed in the older suburbs of Canberra?
How is the efficacy of the WSUD elements being maintained through the housing construction phase and how will they be maintained over the longer term? Has the design factored in ease of maintenance?
Belconnen Oval Wetland
Ralph Ogden, former Program Manager for ACT Healthy Waterways and Andrew Crompton of Construction Control, who led the design and construction of the wetland
We will examine the Belconnen Oval wetland, which includes a subsurface wetland in its treatment train. Most WSUD asset designs are best at filtering particulate forms of nutrients, particularly for conservative elements like phosphorus. However, around 50% of nutrient pollution in Canberra's stormwater is in dissolved forms, which may pass through traditional raingardens and wetlands. Subsurface treatment wetlands are often deployed as a tertiary element in sewage treatment works and are designed to remove dissolved nutrients. We will discuss:
The concepts behind adapting the subsurface wetland to a stormwater system.
Design challenges and features for the asset.
Monitoring points for assessing the performance of the wetland overall and the contribution of the subsurface wetland element.
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Key Dates
Call for Abstracts Closes
Friday, 8 May 2026
Early Bird Registration Closes
Friday, 31 July 2026
Workshops
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Conference Dates
Wednesday 28- Thursday 29 October 2026
Technical Tour
Friday 30 October 2026
Conference Convenor
Stormwater NSW
in Partnership with
ACT Government
Available from
Conference Secretariat
GEMS Event Management Australia
ABN 30 615 654 629
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For all registration and accommodation inquiries call 02 9744 5252 or email registration@gemsevents.com.au
