Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP150100654
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Mitigating extreme water supply contamination in bushfire burned catchments. This project involves Melbourne Water, the Department of Environment and Primary Industries, and East Gippsland Water in developing tools to evaluate mitigation options that will protect our water supplies and increase the resilience of Australian communities to bushfire. Major bushfires in south-east Australia in 2003, 2007, 2009 and 2013 were followed by storms that triggered extreme soil erosion events in catchments, contaminating water supplies and damaging critical infrastructure. The capacity to mitigate the risk of interruption to the water supplies of our cities and towns in a more fire-prone future is currently limited by our knowledge of where, why, and how often these post-fire contamination events will occur. This project aims to address these knowledge gaps.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 03-2016
End Date: 12-2020
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $310,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Surface Processes | Surfacewater Hydrology | Forestry Management and Environment | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Natural Hazards in Mountain and High Country Environments | Forest and Woodlands Water Management | Mountain and High Country Land and Water Management |
