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Water Management Plans
Hydrozone is an independent provider of high quality Water Management Plans for urban irrigators in Melbourne and across Australia. We service sportsfields, golf courses, racetracks, parks, gardens, bowling greens and lawn tennis courts.
Hydrozone finds the best options for reducing water use, while ensuring your plants thrive and stay as green as possible. We start with an understanding of soils, plants and water requirements and put together solutions that consider all aspects of supply and demand. Every site has different challenges and opportunities and the Hydrozone approach captures all these possibilities.
In a job for Nillumbik Shire Council we showed how potable [drinkable] water use of four sportsfields could be reduced from 18 megalitres to 6 megalitres. At project completion that will be a 65% decrease in water use! At the funding launch for the project, then Water Minister John Thwaites said “Nillumbik sports grounds will become models of how to improve sports facilities, recycle storm water and use less water.”
And so they have!
Several years on, Nillumbik Shire Council are implementing the water management plans that Hydrozone helped develop. Eltham Central and Coventry Ovals are great examples of clever integrated water management. Both use drip irrigation on free draining sandy soils. Coventry utilises stormwater harvested from a nearby catchment and includes a large constructed wetland with both functional and aesthetic benefits. Another two sports fields are on the drawing board.
Hydrozone doesn’t focus on single solutions or sell products. We evaluate all options available and show the water savings and the expenditure required. This means we can provide practical, independent advice specifically suited to your site.
Hydrozone has extensive knowledge in the following areas and considers each of them as part of a Hydrozone Water Management Plan:
- responding to drought & water restrictions
- auditing irrigation systems
- finding alternative water supplies
- GPS mapping of irrigation infrastructure
- modelling storm water yields
- sizing water storage tanks
- scheduling irrigation events
- determining future & historical water usage
- devising water budgets
- landscape design changes & modification
- management of drainage & runoff
- improving water quality
- turf & horticultural management
- soil moisture sensors
- subsurface drip irrigation systems
- protecting heritage landscapes
- tree management.
David conducting a Catch Can Test as part of a Hydrozone Water Management Plan.
