Mary River Recovery Program
Alluvium supported recovery planning and implementation for the Mary River, focusing on river condition, rehabilitation priorities, investment planning and long-term catchment outcomes.
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Alluvium Consulting is a specialist water and environmental consultancy. For 20 years, we have worked on the places where water, landscapes and communities come together, from rivers, wetlands and floodplains to stormwater systems and urban waterways.
We are a science, engineering, strategy and design practice. Our people work with governments, regulators, utilities, developers and communities to understand how natural and built water systems function, solve complex problems and turn good science and engineering into practical action.
What makes Alluvium different is the breadth of thinking we can bring to a water problem. Our engineers work alongside geomorphologists, hydrologists, ecologists, scientists, strategists, economists and social scientists. We can think at the scale of a catchment or city, then follow an idea through planning, modelling and design to something that can actually be built and implemented.
Our waterway work is grounded in understanding natural processes. We have spent two decades working across rivers, wetlands, floodplains and coasts, combining hydrology, hydraulics, geomorphology, ecology and engineering to restore waterways, manage erosion, improve fish passage, rehabilitate landscapes and create more resilient river systems.
We bring that same thinking into our cities. We see stormwater as much more than a drainage problem. The way water moves through an urban landscape affects flooding, water quality, waterways, biodiversity, urban greening, cooling and the places where people live. Our urban water work brings these elements together, from strategy and integrated water management through modelling, water sensitive urban design, natural infrastructure and detailed engineering.
Increasingly, the most interesting projects sit somewhere between the two. An urban creek is both infrastructure and a living waterway. A stormwater project can also create habitat, reduce urban heat and provide a place for people to connect with nature. A river restoration project needs to understand engineering as well as natural processes. That intersection is where Alluvium is particularly strong.
We are deliberately independent, collaborative and entrepreneurial. Technical excellence matters to us, but so does curiosity. We want our people to question conventional approaches, pursue ideas and use their expertise to find a better way.
For someone who cares about water, this is a place where you can work across the whole system, learn from people who see problems differently and help shape solutions that leave waterways, landscapes and communities better than we found them.