Onsite Wastewater Management Strategy

The Maroondah Onsite Wastewater Management Strategy supports a clean, green and sustainable Maroondah and a well governed and empowered community over the next 5 years.

The strategy addresses key directions in the Maroondah 2050 – Our future together Community Vision with the vision to protect public health, the natural environment and the amenity of the municipality by promoting environmental best practice in the management of domestic wastewater.

This strategy has the following purposes:

  • To protect public health and the physical environment from the impacts of domestic wastewater.
  • Identify the risks to human health and the environment from unsewered allotments.
  • Assess the risks to human health and the environment from existing and future onsite wastewater management systems, including the management of existing systems discharging beyond the boundaries of the allotment or those OWMS that may have the risks of impacting on groundwater or surface water.
  • To identify onsite wastewater management system priorities and develop short and long term strategies with timelines for the implementation of these priorities.
  • To provide a mechanism for coordinated onsite wastewater management system planning, community education and compliance monitoring by Council and other stakeholders including the local water corporation.
  • To promote environmental sustainability by reducing the impacts of onsite wastewater management systems on the local receiving environments.

The Strategy outlines how Council can collaborate with key stakeholders and the community to achieve the following key outcomes:

  • healthy environments
  • collaborative cultures
  • information management.

Strategy

Maroondah Onsite Wastewater Management Strategy 2025-2030(DOCX, 3MB)

Maroondah Onsite Wastewater Management Strategy 2025-2030(PDF, 2MB)

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