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Western Suburbs Councils will be able to keep better track of the health of the Swan-Canning River Basin and its coastal receiving waters thanks to a collaboration with The University of Western Australia.

WESROC, the group of seven Local Government Councils - Subiaco, Cottesloe, Claremont, Peppermint Grove, Mosman Park, Nedlands and Cambridge - have recently funded a project to be undertaken by UWA's Centre for Water Research.

WESROC has joined a number of other organisations participating in the Centre's Real Time Management System Online ( RMSO ) a powerful freely available interactive website.

The website provides ‘real time', easy to understand information on the impacts of development, climate change, effluent disposal, nutrient enrichment and pathogen dispersal.  It is already in use locally at Lake Monger and in Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore and Argentina.

The Centre for Water Research will implement a seamless portal to the RMSO website allowing Council staff and elected representatives and ratepayers to take advantage of a fully three dimensional, high resolution, integrated simulation of the Swan-Canning Estuary and the nearby coastal ocean.

Apart from providing reports on the overall ecological health of these water bodies, RMSO will also predict in real time the dispersion of effluent from all contributing streams, storm water drains and effluent overflows.

Media references

Caroline Wood (UWA Centre for Water Research)  (+61 8)  6488 2466
Kellie Templeton (WESROC Communications Coordinator)  (+61 8)  9237 9295
Janine MacDonald (UWA Public Affairs)  (+61 8)  6488 5563  /  (+61 4) 32 637 716