Oasis greywater recycling from Nubian Water Systems complements WaterWays
Waterways is part of the ACT Government's broader strategy of
responsible water resource management to ensure the future sustainability of
the community. The Code released early 2008 incorporates the principles of
water sensitive urban design (WSUD) which aims to integrate the management of
the total water cycle into the urban development process. It uses regulatory
pressure to change developers and architects specifications to improve
management of water resources. Nubian's OASIS greywater recycling system offers
a water savings solution to assist achieving regulatory compliance.
This code applies to:
- development of new residential neighbourhoods and estates;
- re-development or in-fill development within the existing built environment; and
- institutional, commercial and industrial developments.
This code provides mandatory targets for mains water use reduction and for
stormwater quality and quantity management. These targets must be met for all
new developments and redevelopments. The code describes a broad range of
measures that can be utilised to achieve these targets and identify a number
of assessment tools that can be used to demonstrate that the targets are being
met. They also provide a range of acceptable solutions to assist with meeting
the targets on less complex developments.
Development applications and building approvals are required to be submitted
for new developments. The various assessment codes in the Territory Plan provide
the rules criteria that must be met in relation to WSUD and demonstrate that
the relevant targets will be achieved. Put simply, developers are now obliged
to incorporate water savings equipment and designs that meet quantifiable savings
against benchmarks of 2003 usage, in order to gain approval for their developments.
Options for implementation of actions and measures include:
- Mains water use reduction.
- Water efficient irrigation systems for playing fields and open space.
- Use of stormwater to replace mains water for irrigation.
- Water efficient landscaping, both on public open space and within leases.
- Rainwater tanks for garden watering and internal uses, such as toilet flushing.
- Use of recycled greywater for irrigation and toilet flushing on individual dwellings.
- Wastewater treatment and reticulation to commercial or industrial users who do not require water of a mains water standard.
- Stormwater management.
- Wetlands and ponds.
- Retarding basins integrated into public open space.
- Extended detention in major dry basins or in major wetlands, ponds or lakes.
- Filter strips, swales and bio-swales in lieu of piped drainage systems.
- Downpipes and impervious surfaces not directly connected to the stormwater system; direct runoff across lawns and gardens.
- Minimising impervious surfaces.
- Installing on-site detention storage, particularly in multi-dwelling sites (which may be increased in size to allow for water harvesting).
- Creating extended detention volume in ornamental ponds or landscaped depressions.
- Direct connection of downpipes to a separate collection system to discharge to ornamental ponds to maintain water quality.
- Wastewater reuse.
- Use of large-scale treated sewage effluent schemes.
- Use of domestic greywater, treated or untreated.
OASIS greywater treatment systems from Nubian are engineered solutions offering
high quality recycled water with strong risk management technology. Developers
of townhouses, apartments, community centres and office blocks are in discussion
with Nubian to achieve regulatory targets for water savings, using recycled grey water.
For further information contact:
Nubian Water Systems Pty Ltd
Address: Unit 3, Gateway Business Park, 63-79 Parramatta Road, Silverwater, NSW, 2128
Phone: 02 9647 2....
Fax: 02 9647 2....
Web: www.nubian.com.au
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