Presented by Sam Philips, Senior Water Projects Engineer with Green Adelaide, Department for Environment and Water.

Breakout Creek / Purruna Parri (‘River of Life’) is the last three kilometres or so of River Torrens / Karrawirra Parri. It’s an artificial channel dug in the 1930s to help manage flooding of the city and the western suburbs.

Over the last 30-odd years, local councils and other catchment managers have worked together to transform a weedy drain into a bustling ecosystem and a real community destination. Join Sam Phillips from the team that worked on the latest stage of this transformation, between Tapleys Hill Road and Seaview Road.

Hear how some of the 245,000 new native plants, covering over 80 different species, are thriving in this new habitat. Learn about the new wetlands which help clean stormwater from the surrounding suburbs.
See images of the amazing new sculptures by Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri artist Allan Sumner, which speak to the rich cultural heritage and strong living culture of local Aboriginal people.
Sam Phillips is an engineer from Green Adelaide, working on better management of urban water. Sam is Green Adelaide’s project manager for this latest stage of Breakout Creek’s transformation, working closely with our co-funding partners from City of Charles Sturt and City of West Torrens, as well as construction project manager SA Water, the design team led by T.C.L, construction contractor Bardavcol, and a host of other contractors and stakeholders.

Sam was the project manager for the previous stage of Breakout Creek transformation work in the late 2000s and early 2010s, with the former Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board. He’s also worked on a number of stormwater recycling wetland projects around Adelaide, including Oaklands Wetland, Adelaide Botanic Garden First Creek Wetland, and the Grange, Royal Adelaide and Glenelg Golf Club Wetlands. Sam is also Green Adelaide’s project manager for Water Sensitive SA, South Australia’s water sensitive urban design capacity-building program.

The meeting is scheduled to start at 6:30 pm. We would like to start on time.  Please arrive ten minutes earlier to find a place.

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