Apex Oval Stormwater Harvesting project

52 Pages·2015·9.14 MB·English

Apex Oval Stormwater
Harvesting project
Why stormwater
harvesting for a
sporting field?
1)Grass is thirsty – the precinct used 99.7ML
of water per annum.
2) Infrastructure is in the right place - 65 ha of
the City is drained through this retention
basin
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Drought proofing a regional
sporting facility
• the risk of sustaining an injury on unacceptably hard
grounds was significantly greater than on the
preferred (optimum) range of hardness.
Twomey, Dara M ; Finch, Caroline F; Lloyd, David G; Elliott, Bruce C; Doyle, Tim L A. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport15.4
(Jul 2012): 305-10.
• Sporting asset have significant economic value in
regards to events bringing visitors.
• Sporting events build community self esteem.
• Opportunity to build an international standard
playing surface –post construction
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Brief Time Line of Caltex Park
• 1929 – 1951 gravel and brick quarry
• 1954 – 1963 rubbish depot
• 1970 and 1976 land gazetted for public
recreation
• 1974 oval development began
• 1978 Apex Oval was opened
• 1987 EDSC fields constructed
• 1995 Playing lights installed
• 2005 Bruce Neads Memorial
Grandstand opened
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GRANT APPLICATIONS
Dubbo City Council applied for grant funding
through the Federal Government 3 times before
success:
• 2006
• 2008 x 2
• 2010
Each time Council applied it was asked to improve the
application.
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