Land Management Awards Award for Land Management in Landscape Architecture TRIN WARREN TAM-BOORE (BELLBIRD WATERHOLE) City of Melbourne with Rush Wright Associates and Ecological Engineering Royal Park is one of city’s feature parks that contribute greatly to Melbourne’s garden character, sporting heritage and its Victorian legacy. The City of Melbourne has not only skilfully and sensitively inserted a new wetland into Royal Park, but also ensured that it makes both a valuable contribution to the park’s recreation opportunities whilst protecting Melbourne’s parkland heritage. The Trin Warren Tam-Boore wetlands reflect established best practices for stormwater treatment. They have been carefully moulded to sit harmoniously in an awkward corner of the parkland, yet seamlessly connect to the parks network of recreation trails. The treatment pond forms the heart of a community-planted native habitat area, with a perimeter path and boardwalk providing a range of education and leisure experiences.  In treating polluted stormwater arising from the park, the zoo and the CSL compound, the Trin Warren Tam-Boore wetlands contribute to a significant reduction in pollution entering Moonee Ponds Creek and the bay.  The inclusion of storage wetlands and an associated distribution tank enables the city to irrigate parkland areas, and importantly provide essential water to the historic elms that line Royal Parade. Surplus treated water is tanked to the city’s other parks. The wetlands demonstrate how the careful resolution of a complex land management problem brings with it community, recreation, education, habitat and heritage benefits.  Trin Warren Tam-Boore provides both cities and landscape architects with an exemplary model for the design of wetlands, and a means for securing their ever-diminishing water supplies. Images                                                         Photographs and Images: City of Melbourne, Rush Wright Associates, David Simmons, John Gollings