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Amendments – planning schemes

We’re constantly obtaining new flood information for the wider Melbourne area. We provide this information to councils, so they have accurate information about land that may be affected by flooding during severe storms.

Planning your development

If you've submitted a planning permit application to your local council, Melbourne Water may have included some conditions on your permit.

Better Environment Plan

Improving the health of Dandenong Creek’s middle corridor by fostering innovation in pollution reduction and enhancing biodiversity and connectivity. After a successful Phase 1 and 2 of the Enhancing our Dandenong Creek program, Melbourne Water will continue to deliver through a Better Environment Plan for the middle corridor of Dandenong Creek.

Design and construction works

If your development must include drainage or water quality works, follow these steps to make sure they meet our standards.

Design of works

If you’re constructing works required by us, your design needs to be certified before you can start work.

Retarding basins

Retarding basins play an important role in reducing flood risk, temporarily storing stormwater during very high rainfall.

Greening the Pipeline

Greening the Pipeline is an ambitious project to transform the Main Outfall Sewer reserve (along Federation Trail) into a greener, cooler parkland for communities in Melbourne’s west.

History and heritage

Melbourne Water has played a significant role in Melbourne’s development, from creating our underground sewerage system in the 1890s to completing Thomson Reservoir, Melbourne’s largest water supply reservoir in 1984.