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Yarra Valley Water Smart Sewer Network

Identifying properties eligible for a community sewerage program

  • 31K

    Unsewered Properties

  • 7K

    High Risk

  • 6

    Weeks

  • Yarra Valley, Melbourne, Victoria

    Yarra Valley, Melbourne, Victoria

Using GIS data to make informed decisions

There are over 31,000 unsewered properties across the Yarra Valley Water (YVW) service area. Of these, over 7,000 were identified as high risk and eligible for inclusion in YVW’s community sewerage program.

Our team was engaged to complete high-level planning and develop feasibility options for delivering sewerage services to these properties within a six-week timeframe. Traditionally, this planning process is a time-consuming manual task. However, our team proposed the use of an algorithm to automate it, allowing our team to deliver results in a fraction of the time—while also optimising the network design and grouping properties into defined community service areas that could then be ranked and prioritised.

The outcomes of our analysis provided the opportunity to directly use results in future hydraulic modelling and design investigations. Solutions developed with the smart sewer network tool were presented as GIS data sets, providing information on network routes, sewer type and depth, pipeline sizes, and connection points. This enabled easy import to hydraulic models for detailed modelling and analysis. We were also able to run scenarios to identify lower-risk properties adjacent to the proposed pipe alignments that could also be serviced. The result? Solutions spanning over 10,000 properties.

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  • Yarra Valley Water
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Meet Our Team

Alana Duncker, Market Leader—Digital Services

The work I do helps our clients make critical decisions to keep the water flowing and supports their decision making.

Jane La Nauze, Business Leader, Water, VIC/SA

Technical work is exciting, but it’s building relationships with our clients and working collaboratively that I most enjoy.

Alana Duncker

Market Leader—Digital Services

Jane La Nauze

Business Leader, Water, VIC/SA

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