Campbelltown Flood Study

CSS was engaged by Campbelltown City Council to prepare a detailed flood study for the Campbelltown Locality. The purpose of the flood study was to define flood behaviour for existing and future conditions. In accordance with the requirements of the NSW Government's Floodplain Development Manual (2005), both mainstream and overland flooding needed to be considered as part of the study.
Campbelltown Flood Study

 

The Campbelltown Locality includes the suburbs of Campbelltown, Bradbury and Leumeah, and occupies a total area of approximately 10 km2 in south-western Sydney. The study area is highly urbanised and incorporates natural watercourses, concrete-lined drainage channels, as well as sub-surface drainage pipes and culverts. A number of significant flow obstructions are also located within the study area, including Main Southern Railway Line.


The movement of floodwaters throughout the study area was defined using a 2-dimensional TUFLOW hydraulic model. The TUFLOW model utilised a 2 metre grid size and extended across the full 10 km2 study area. The TUFLOW model also incorporated major urban flow obstructions (e.g., buildings, fences), as well as over 3,000 subsurface stormwater pipes and over 3,000 pits. Unique inlet capacity relationships were developed to account for the differing inlet capacities of each stormwater pit type.
The TUFLOW model was used to simulate flood behaviour for a range of storm durations. The complete library of flood level surfaces was interrogated to ensure the maximum flood level at each 2 metre grid cell was extracted from the full range of simulated storm durations. This ensured that the 'worst case' flooding conditions were quantified across all sections of the study area (i.e., ensured that both mainstream and overland flooding were accounted for).


In addition to simulating flood behaviour for existing conditions, additional simulations were completed for future conditions. The future scenario accounted for increased runoff, as well as filling of all potentially developable areas above the peak 100 year ARI flood. This allowed verification of the cumulative impact of future filling on flood behaviour as well as the definition of areas that should be preserved for the future conveyance of flood flows.

  • Water Services
  • Software Development
  • Web Development Services

CSS has considerable expertise in a full suite of flood-related disciplines. We strive to provide our clients with access to the latest available software, systems and modelling tools to improve efficiency and deliver innovative and timely outcomes. We are familiar with a range of 1, 2 and 3-dimensional hydraulic software, lumped and distributed hydrologic software and GIS software. This includes:

Hydrologic Models

    • WBNM
    • RORB
    • GSSHA
    • ICPR
    • URBS
    • HEC-HMS

Hydraulic Models

    • TUFLOW
    • RMA-2
    • RMA-10
    • HEC-RAS
    • ICPR
    • MIKE-11

Water Quality Models

    • MUSIC
    • Source Catchments

GIS

  • MapInfo
  • ArcGIS
  • MapInfo
  • WaterRide
  • CatchmentSIM

 Some of our sample projects are shown below.

Sample Projects

  • Campbelltown Flood Study +

    CSS was engaged by Campbelltown City Council to prepare a detailed flood study for the Campbelltown Locality. The purpose of the flood study was to define flood behaviour for existing and future conditions. In accordance with the requirements of the NSW Government's Floodplain Development Manual (2005), both mainstream and overland flooding needed to be considered as part of the study.
    Campbelltown Flood Study
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  • Sydney Harbour Subcatchment Delineation +

    CSS were engaged by the Sydney Metropolitan CMA to complete subcatchment delineation for the Lower Parramatta River, Lane Cove River and Middle Harbour catchments, which occupy approximately 350 km2 of the Sydney urban area.  The project was completed as part of the Sydney Harbour Water Quality Improvement Plan.
    Sydney Harbour Subcatchment Delineation
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  • Parramatta River Source Catchments Modelling +

    CSS was engaged by the Sydney Metropolitan CMA to prepare Catchment Pollutant Export Models (CPEM) for the Upper and Lower Parramatta River catchments. The CPEM were developed for the Sydney Harbour Water Quality Improvement Plan using the Source Catchments software.

    Parramatta River Source Catchments Modelling
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  • The Hills Urban Overland Flowpath Mapping +

    CSS were engaged by The Hills Shire Council to map all urban overland flow path alignments in The Hills Shire Council LGA. The purpose of the study was to help identify all allotments that may be traversed by an urban overland flow path and which may be subject to a flood-related development controls (i.e., flood control lots).

    The Hills Urban Overland Flowpath Mapping
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  • Fannie Road Bridge Upgrade +

    CSS were engaged as subconsultants by The Balmoral Group USA, to complete the hydrologic and hydraulic analysis for the proposed upgrade of the Fannie Road Bridge crossing of Big Escambia Creek in Escambia County, Florida. 

    Fannie Road Bridge Upgrade
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Catchment Simulation Solutions frequently develop software and tools to assist organisations in the water industry. We are the developers of widely used water industry tools CatchmentSIM, Storm Injector, and TRIM.

Our approach to development centres on having engineers and scientists with a deep understanding of the hydrological concepts involved in virtually all components of the development process. This ensures the scientific rigour of our products is our foremost priority which is then complemented by intuitive user interface design. We have expertise in Python, Delphi, Fortran and many other development environments and supporting tools.

CSS is also available for fast low cost development of simple tools to assist businesses with process automation, data conversion and software integration projects. We have developed such tools for a range of government departments and private industry. 

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CSS strive to help our clients to make their work as accessible as possible to key stakeholders and the public. We are specialists in using the web to help spread the message. In particular, CSS are comitted to utilising advanced web mapping technology to ensure both visual and tabular GIS information can be available with the need for specialised software.

A range of the communication and mapping websites we've developed are profiled below.

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