Porous paving allows water to pass through it and filter back to the drains or into groundwater.

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.

Stormwater harvesting involves collecting, treating, storing and using stormwater runoff from urban areas.

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.