Raingardens are specially-designed garden beds that filter stormwater runoff from surrounding areas or stormwater pipes.

Rainwater tanks can reduce the harm to our waterways caused by too much stormwater.

Sediment basins are ponds with open water that capture coarse sediment and litter carried by stormwater.

Swales are linear, depressed channels that collect and transfer stormwater.

Apply for a stormwater harvesting licence to connect to a stormwater drain, watercourse or open channel, or harvest stormwater from a waterway managed by Melbourne Water.

​Early planning is important to ensuring a successful WSUD project.

The concept design stage involves selecting the type, location and approximate size of stormwater treatments.

The functional design stage contains the next level of detail following the approved concept design.

The detailed design ​is based on the approved concept and functional designs, and involves documenting the design and functional elements with detailed design drawings and specifications.

Plants species used in raingardens, wetlands and swales must be perennial with an extensive fibrous root system.