| Environmental Benefit.... |
Tanks and rain-gardens benefit Little Stringybark Creek by keeping damaging stormwater out of the creek when it rains and allowing cleaner, filtered water to flow to the creek.
All proposed works in the creek's catchment are assessed for the benefit they provide to the creek. This is done via the Environmental Benefit (EB) Calculator. Doing so not only aids in the design of works (such as the required size of the rain-garden), but also provides us with a cost/benefit analysis of the proposed works.
The Environmental Benefit (EB) calculator lets you try different tank and rain-garden installation ideas to see which ones earn the best EB scores. It also produces graphs that show differences in water yield between wet, dry and average years to give you an indication of water savings that might be achieved in drier areas, or in a drier future.
1. Please wait for the loading wheel (top left hand corner of screen) to disappear before clicking anything. The calculator takes at least 10-15 seconds to load fully. Start on the property tab. This calculates the highest Environmental Benefit (EB) score your property could possibly earn. From there you can go to the tank page, or the rain-garden page to see how much of your potential EB score you can earn with your planned projects. If you hover your mouse over the 'tip' boxes, hints on using the calculator will appear.