- Title
- Power Plants
- Creator
- Ware, Sue Anne; Murray, Megan; Murry, Ainsley
- Relation
- Power Plants: Phytoremediation Gardens. (White Bay Power Station, Sydney, N.S.W. )
- Relation
- https://powerplantsphytoremediation.com/
- Publisher
- Landcom, N.S.W. Government
- Resource Type
- interactive resource
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- The Power Plant Stage 1 report provides research about various technical, design, and educative/interpretive means which will inform the Stage 2 installation of an annual plants demonstration garden at the White Bay Power Station in Sydney (WBPS). The report is organised into four sections: Section 1 discusses phytoremediation techniques and types, Section 2 discusses relevant international and national precedents, Section 3 includes a historic site analysis and a short description of the White Bay Precinct today, Section 4 presents Garden One, an annual plants phytoremediation garden, which is to be the first garden experiment on site. Our findings from Section 1 confirm that there are a number of ways in which phytoremediation takes place and various species of vegetation which are more suited towards this process. It also underpins the site-specific nature of such remediation activity, in that the specific toxins, growth conditions, and complex site contexts need to be taken into account. In Section 2, after a thorough search through relevant international and national precedent projects, we discovered that while many design projects had incidental phytoremediation and water sensitive urban design (WSUD) strategies, that very few had deliberately utilised phytoremediation in a designerly fashion. Almost exclusively it has been relegated to environmental engineering solutions such as freeway verges, storm water treatment, and mining reclamation. In Section 3 we discuss precolonial history of the site and the Bays precinct as well as its geological formation and hydrological function. The history of the WBPS is summarised and we introduce the current demonstration garden site and its analysis for Power Plants. Section 4 includes the refined proposal for the concept design, planting plan, and staging process for Garden One. It also includes the anticipated performance plan and the final draft of the Power Plant Project website. This research report is organised into key sections which can be utilised independently or can be recombined for other projects of this nature. Our research team is committed to ‘open source’ research which allows public access to our research investigations and our research outputs as a result. In short, we hope that as this report is circulated both in print and via our website, that it will be utilised for any number of other projects, educational opportunities, etc. We only ask to be acknowledged for our endeavours and to hopefully disseminate what we have learned and are continuing to learn more widely.
- Subject
- landscape design; White Bay Power Station (WBPS); phytoremediation; rehabilitation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1515823
- Identifier
- uon:56915
- Language
- eng
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