Looking after all our water needs

Looking after all our water needs

Water sensitive urban design

Litter and sediment traps

Summary Main benefits Design factors Target pollutants

• Litter and sediment traps capture • Consider the possibility that trapped • litter
Litter and sediment traps are devices that retain ‘gross gross pollutants and coarse material may be remobilised during high
pollutants’ (litter and debris greater than 5mm) and • coarse sediment
sediments. flows.
coarse sediments (particles greater than 0.5mm). They
• They are used in piped systems • Public and occupational health and safety
are available in several configurations and designs and and as pre-treatment to some requirements should be met.
many are proprietary products. structures such as constructed
wetlands.
This brochure is part of a series that explain various The recommended steps for finding the
aspects of water sensitive urban design. Please see • They might be required to retrofit optimum location of litter and sediment
piped outlets to water bodies management systems are:
Water sensitive urban design in Western Australia for
where overland flow is not
background information on water sensitive urban design. • Identify areas of high litter generation from
possible due to site constraints.
field inspections, land-use maps and by
• Litter traps are suitable for consulting council officers and community
targeting high litter generation catchment groups.
areas.
• Determine the drainage pathways for each
of these areas by examining drainage
plans and through field inspections.
Where they can be used in
• Determine whether an ‘at source’, ‘in
the water sensitive urban design process transit’ or ‘end of pipe’ system would be
Treatment train
most suitable for each area.
Safe
Land use
Source control Runoff control conveyance • Select the areas where the most gross
and planning and discharge pollutants will be trapped per dollar spent
Capture, use Retention,
Flood
on the project.
and infiltrate detention and
rainfall conveyance management
Total water
cycle outcomes Prevent and Appropriate
through Reduce discharge and
reduce transmission of
location and pollutants at reuse
good design pollutants
their source
Protect people
and buildings
Minimise runoff Minimise erosion from flooding

Up to the 1 in 1 Up to the 1 in 5 Up to the 1 in 100

year ARI event year ARI event year ARI event

Design scale

Precinct
District Street Lot
(subdivision)
 Looking after all our water needs
Looking after all our water needs

Water sensitive urban design

Litter and sediment traps

Release nets – netting installed on pipe
outlets to collect litter
Required reading
A guide to the selection of a
stormwater pollutant trap, 2006, JDA,
report prepared for the Foundation for
the Technical Advancement of Local
Government in Western Australia.
Australian runoff quality: a guide to
water sensitive urban design, 2006,
Engineers Australia, available at
<www.arq.org.au>.
Stormwater management manual
for Western Australia, 2004–07,
Department of Water, available at
<www.water.wa.gov.au>. See Section
6.1 of Chapter 9 – Structural controls.

Side entry pit trap – material

trapped in basket for later removal
Department of Water
168 St Georges Terrace
Perth Western Australia
PO Box K822 Perth
Western Australia 6842
Ph: 08 6364 7600 • Fax: 08 6364 7601
Gross pollutant traps require regular maintenance www.water.wa.gov.au
The department acknowledges the past project contributions of the Leschenault Catchment Council. June 2011 21592_100_06/11