A5001633369- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Fecal contamination and water quality
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
- Water resources management and optimization
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Water Treatment and Disinfection
- Water Systems and Optimization
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Mine drainage and remediation techniques
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
- Regional resilience and development
- Heavy metals in environment
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
2007-2024
CSIRO Land and Water
2014-2023
University of Wollongong
2010
Water Research Australia
2003
University of South Australia
2002-2003
Australian Water Quality Centre
2002
Salisbury University
1999
To meet increasing urban water requirements in a sustainable way, there is need to diversify future sources of supply and storage. However, date, has been lag the uptake managed aquifer recharge (MAR) for diversifying areas. This study draws on examples use MAR as an approach support management. Recharged may be sourced from variety centers, provides means recycle underutilized storm treated wastewater maximize their resource potential minimize any detrimental effects associated with...
Most of Australia has low rainfall. The population is small (25 M) but growing at 1.5%/yr. Water limitations are being exacerbated by climate change. By 1990, restraints placed on wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) discharges to receiving waters became an incentive for water recycling. millennium drought (2000–2009) was a further driver recycling and desalination. reform policies, led guidelines recycled water, including stormwater augmentation drinking water. Advanced purified plants...
Use of Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) has rapidly increased in Australia, USA, and Europe recent years as an efficient means recycling stormwater or treated sewage effluent for non-potable indirect potable reuse urban rural areas. Yet aquifers have been relied on knowingly water storage unwittingly treatment millennia. Hence if 'leading edge' is defined 'the foremost part a trend; vanguard', it would be misleading to claim managed aquifer recharge leading edge technology. However taken...
The objective of this study was to determine if the removal NOM in reservoir waters conventional treatment with alum is limited by character NOM. A sequential jar test procedure, which included five steps employed could not be removed flocculation/sedimentation. raw and treated characterised techniques including dissolved organic carbon (DOC), UV absorbance (UVA), high performance size exclusion chromatography (HPSEC), pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC-MS) diffuse...
The objective of the Parafield Aquifer Storage Transfer and Recovery research project in South Australia is to determine whether stormwater from an urban catchment that treated a constructed wetland stored initially brackish aquifer before recovery can meet potable water standards. produced by harvesting system, which included wetland, was found be near quality. Parameters exceeding drinking guidelines recharge small numbers fecal indicator bacteria elevated iron concentrations associated...
Recycling of stormwater water and treated effluent via managed aquifer recharge (MAR) has often been hampered because perceptions low microbiological quality recovered associated health risks. The goal this study was to assess the removal selected pathogens in four large-scale MAR schemes determine influence characteristics, geochemistry, type on pathogen survival times. Bacterial tested had shortest one log10 time (T90, <3 d), followed by Cryptosporidium oocysts <120 with enteric viruses...
Biodegradation of pharmaceuticals and endocrine disrupting compounds was examined in long term batch experiments for a period two half years to obtain more insight into the effects redox conditions. A mix including lipid lowering agents (e.g. clofibric acid, gemfibrozil), analgesics diclofenac, naproxen), beta blockers atenolol, propranolol), X-ray contrast media diatrizoic iomeprol) as well antiepileptic carbamazepine disruptors bisphenol A, 17α-ethinylestradiol) analyzed tests presence...
Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) is used worldwide in urban environments to replenish groundwater provide a secure and sustainable supply of potable non-potable water. It relies on natural treatment processes within aquifers (i.e., filtration, sorption, degradation), some cases involves infiltration through the unsaturated zone polish given source water, e.g., treated wastewater, stormwater, or rainwater, desired quality prior reuse. Whilst MAR its early forms has occurred for millennia,...
Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) is the intentional of water to aquifers for subsequent recovery or environmental benefit. MAR can potentially increase security in drought more economically than new dams, augment existing dams with higher efficiency storage (less evaporation), brackish groundwater desalination schemes, and facilitate conjunctive use surface resources. In Australia 2023, there are currently 10 known operational schemes used agricultural activity varying stages development,...
Australian experience at five research sites where stormwater and reclaimed water have been stored in aquifers prior to reuse, yielded valuable information about treatment processes anaerobic aerobic aquifers. One of these is the potable ASTR project City Salisbury, a demonstration within broader EC ‘RECLAIM WATER’. A framework for characterising effectiveness such selected organic chemicals, natural matter, pathogens being developed inclusion new Guidelines Management Aquifer Recharge. The...
A study was undertaken to determine the potential inactivation rates of selected enteric microorganisms in captured urban stormwater within a constructed reedbed and tertiary carbonated aquifer during an Aquifer Storage, Transfer Recovery (ASTR) scheme. The in-situ using diffusion chambers. results showed that all tested bacteria had one log10 reduction time less than 6 2.5 days respectively reedbeds aquifer, which suggests presence recovered water is unlikely. However, adenovirus...