Peninsula Residential Creek Restoration

A creek hidden under the ground in a culvert, has been brought back to the surface as the centre piece for the landscape associated with a new student residence at Monash University. In 2016, Glas Landscape Architects developed the Monash University Peninsula Campus Masterplan with Lyons and NMBW. A key component of the landscape vision was the creation of strong landscape character zones, emanating from a restored creek running through the existing central valley of the campus. Delivering on Masterplan ambitions, Glas has restored the creek back to the surface, allowing it to visibly run through the landscape for the first time in over 100 years.
The creek system provides a 3-stage water filtration process. The first stage is an underground tank; here the siphoned water passes into a sediment tank where major sediment separates from the water. Next the water emerges into a series of surface pools separated by weirs. The second stage is a wetland pool with a dense reedbed, designed to remove smaller sediment and nutrients. In stage three, water runs through an open creek bed with intermittent planting, which provides a final clean prior to it passing into the large pool area adjacent the lawn.