Paddock’s Wetlands, Salisbury City, South Australia
Barrie Ormsby the Principal Landscape Architect for Salisbury Council,
designed the scheme and was responsible for construction supervision
and ongoing management of the site. In the early 1970’s
projects of this type were scarce in Australia.
The Paddock’s Wetlands is a good example of an integrated
wetland and stormwater management system combined with public open
space that has stood the test of time. This was benchmark project
not only for wetlands development but for aquifer storage in Australia. The
wetland is also unusual as it was ephemeral, as most constructed
wetlands have permanent water bodies.
>> Overview of the sites
>> links to Salisbury indiviudal information sites
Stormwater Recycling through Wetlands in the City of Salisbury **
Greenfield Wetlands
The Paddocks
wetlands locations
** (the pdf below originally from the Salisbury web site)
Two other projects have demonstrated the enormous potential of this new technology: the Parafield/Michells project; and the Kaurna Park/Edinburgh Parks project. For details of these projects, please click here (1.4 MB).
