Stormwater Management Service Charge

We have collected the Stormwater Management Service Charge (the Charge) annually, since 2007, from residential and commercial property owners for improved stormwater management. If you are a rate payer you may have seen this charge on your rates notice as a separate billing item called the Environmental Stormwater Service Charge.

This Charge was introduced to fund additional, or improve existing, stormwater related services and projects and is used to fund our Environmental Stormwater Management Program. Our current Environmental Stormwater Management Program (2024/25 to 2028/29)(PDF, 244KB)  funds services and projects over $24M. 

Some of the funded projects include: 

• stormwater education of the community

• capacity building of Council staff on water sensitive urban design

• water quality and quantity monitoring of our waterways with publishing of an annual report (Waterway Health Report Card(PDF, 2MB) )

• catchment planning

• compliance audits of industrial properties for the safe storage of chemicals and compliance of private/commercial properties with water sensitive urban design (water quality) and onsite detention (water quantity) devices

• maintenance of Council owned stormwater assets, including:

  • wetland vegetation and sediment removal

  • creek sediment/litter removal, erosion protection, and vegetation management

  • pollution capturing devices (PCD)

  • flood basins and storages

• design and construction for new stormwater related projects, including:

  • stormwater harvesting and reuse schemes

  • creek restoration projects

  • installation of stormwater quality improvement devices.