Saving water
Council harvests and reuses stormwater at a number of parks and sport fields, saving millions of litres of water annually and tens of thousands of dollars. For example, Pratten Park is irrigated using storm water that is captured from an upstream drainage pipe. The water is filtered, stored in underground tanks and disinfected using ultra-violet light before watering the sports field. This saves roughly 8 million litres of drinking water (~3 Olympic swimming pools) and $16,000 a year.
Stormwater harvesting is also used to water these green spaces:
- Mackey Park
- Birchgrove Oval
- Easton Park
- Leichhardt Oval No. 1
- Balmain Road Playing Field
- Glover Street Sports Field