Aura Estate; WSUD Infrastructure
Project Name: Aura WSUD infrastructure
Location: Aura Estate, Caloundra QLD
Client: Stockland Developments
Date of Completion: ongoing works
Number of plants supplied: over 1 million
Project Details:
Aura Estate is the new master-planned community located at Caloundra QLD. This community has been purposefully designed to pay respect to its unique natural setting. One of the objectives outlined in the design proposal was the protection of the water quality and ecological values of the Pumicestone Passage.
The development showcases an intricate system of bioretention basins and the implementation of the world-leading Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) initiatives. WSUDs are an integrated water cycle system. The system factors in the elements of stormwater, groundwater, wastewater and water supply, and then transfers this information into urban design to minimise environmental degradation.
The large garden beds are designed to act as filters, collecting stormwater pollution. Utilising specifically selected plants and different layers of soil, the WSUD beds are able to absorb and filter stormwater and litter, thus maintaining the water quality of Bells Creek, Lamerough Creek and the Pumicestone Passage.
Tubestock Nursery has supplied over a million specially selected native plant stock to the Landscape Contractor since 2019. All of the stock has been grown specifically adhering to the outlined pre-grow contract developed with the Landscape Contractor and Landscape Architect. As this is an ongoing development, there are still pre-grow contracts in place for future WSUD construction. To date, Tubestock Nursery has supplied plant stock that has been installed into 5 WSUD systems and countless bioretention basins within Aura Estate.
Species of plants supplied by Tubestock Nursery:
Groundcovers:
- Baumea articulata
- Bacopa monnieri
- Baumea rubiginosa
- Baloskion pallens
- Bolboschoenus fluviatilis
- Carex appressa
- Cladium procerum
- Chorizandra cymbaria
- Chorizandra sphaerocephala
- Eleochairs dulcis
- Ficinia nodosa
- Gahnia aspera
- Gahnia sieberiana
- Goodenia prostrata
- Imperata cylindrica
- Juncus usitatus
- Lepironia articulata
- Leersia hexandra
- Lomandra hystrix
- Lomandra longifolia
- Ludwigia peploides
- Marsilea mutica
- Nymphaea gigantea
- Nymphoides indica
- Philydrum lanuginosum
- Schoenoplectus subulatus (littoralis)
- Triglochin procera
- Vallisneria australis
Trees and Shrubs:
- Banksia aemula or spinulosa
- Banksia robur
- Hibbertia scandens
- Leptospermum liversidgei
- Leucopogon leptospermoides
- Leucopogon pimeleoides
- Lophostemon suaveolens
- Melaleuca nodosa
- Melastoma malabathricum
- Melaleuca quinquenervia
- Melaleuca quinquenervia "Mini Quini"
- Melaleuca sieberi
- Melaleuca pachyphylla
- Myoporum acuminatum
- Melaleuca thymifolia
- Persoonia virgata
