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Temporal eel trap style Litter Trap for Gardiners Creek
This project is a collaboration with Friends of Gardiners Creek Valley led by Sarah Naarden in the City of Stonington Environmental Champions Group. It is set up to champion Indigenous Community Engagement for the Kooyongkoot Masterplan in an Environmental design studio with Monash University. We propose to bio-remediate or filter the water toxins including invisible… Read more
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The Bridges of John Monash over Gardiners Creek
The Black Bridge, Melway Map 69 B1, on the Outer Circle Railway opened in 1890. The Black Bridge was a wooden trestle bridge. John Monash was the chief engineer for the Outer Circle Railway. The Black Bridge was dismantled during WWII. https://en-gb.facebook.com/Past2Present1/photos/a.718458668183372.1073741954.606892929339947/718966651465907/ The Glenferrie Road Bridge, Melway Map 59 D3, was widened by John Monash… Read more
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Methane and Hydrogen as Transport Fuels
Methane gas as energy from sewage.. A chemical explanation of the energy levels from different fuels: https://people.wou.edu/~courtna/GS361/Energy_From_Fossil_Fuels.htm International Projects: https://www.globalmethane.org/documents/ww_fs_eng.pdf https://www.clarke-energy.com/applications/sewage-gas/ What Melbourne Water is already doing:https://www.melbournewater.com.au/what-we-are-doing/news/upgraded-biogas-covers Harvesting energy from a hydraulic wheel spinning in sewage or stormwater pipes, i.e. using the energy of the flow rather than the gas.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095809917300875 Methane gas as energy from… Read more
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The Case for Litter Traps
The world’s oceans are expected to contain more plastic than fish, by weight, by 2050 (http://bit.ly/more-plastic-than-fish). Gardiners Creek is fed litter from five local government areas (City of Whitehorse, City of Monash, City of Glen Eira, City of Stonnington and the City of Boroondara). Some of this litter gets as far as Port Phillip Bay… Read more
