Australian Landscape Management provides Stonnington City Council with pond and wetland water quality monitoring and reporting services.

Services have involved initial risk assessments, a rigorous on-site monitoring program, sampling for laboratory analysis and regular reporting to the council.

Managers of urban water bodies face a number of areas of public and environmental risk. There is a need to demonstrate due diligence ie. that a situation has been rigorously assessed and priority actions to address identified risks have been formulated.

Development of a program to monitor physical conditions of the water body and observe general environmental health associated with a water body is the key to preventable health risks in public open space.

Monitoring programs address this by providing information that identifies conditions likely to produce blue green algae. Once identified these water bodies are intensively scrutinised with laboratory testing used for definitive information on species composition and abundance.

Benefits of the relationship between Australian Landscape Management and Stonnington City Council have been the opportunity to transfer local environmental knowledge between projects.

Location: City of Stonnington

Typical water body being monitored

Typical reports provided to council