Mill Park Wetlands upgrade
We are enhancing the Mill Park Wetlands in The Lakes Reserve, South Morang, to ensure they keep working the way they were meant to: filtering out nitrogen and harmful pollutants and keeping our rivers and creeks healthy.
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Hawthorn East Retarding Basin Upgrade
We're upgrading the Hawthorn East Retarding Basin, located next to Rathmines Reserve, to ensure a safe drainage system and prevent surrounding homes from flooding.
Service standards and performance
Our service performance updates show how we’re tracking against our planning and development service standards. The updates are designed to help inform planning and development applicants, developers, consultants, councils, government agencies and other authorities, and are part of our commitment to transparency.
Victorian Landcare Grants
Landcare and environmental volunteering groups and networks can apply for government funding to protect and restore our land and natural environment.
Grants
Learn about grants available to support innovation, liveability and collaboration across water management, and improve river health.
Melbourne’s drainage system
Rain, storms and floods are a natural part of life in Melbourne. As our city grows, increased pressure on our drains and waterways presents new challenges. Melbourne Water manages a complex drainage system, including retarding basins and wetlands, to protect our iconic rivers, creeks and bays from the impacts of stormwater.
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Melbourne Water manages and protects major water resources on behalf of the community, including Melbourne's water storages, dams, water supply and sewerage, drains and flooding.
Melbourne’s Winter Water Storage Report: Desal steps in as rain holds back
Winter 2025 has been very dry, and this has contributed to the driest January-June streamflows on record, with catchment rainfall down 11.2 per cent on the 30-year (1995-2024) average and streamflow around half of last year’s levels. While this has taken storage volumes to their lowest levels for the end of winter since 2020, the Victorian Desalination Plant has stepped up, delivering over 16 billion litres since 1 July to keep Melbourne’s water storages topped up.
Reimagining Eumemmerring Creek
We are reimagining almost 2 kilometres of Eumemmerring Creek into a natural waterway from Doveton Avenue, Doveton through to Lace Street, Eumemmerring.
How loopy litter is tangling Melbourne’s platypus – and what you can do
September is Platypus Month. Classed as vulnerable, Greater Melbourne is home to only 1,000-3,000 platypuses. They face many threats, one of the greatest is ‘loopy litter’ with 4 per cent of the platypus population entangled at any one time. In the Werribee River, that figure spikes to a staggering 15 per cent.