Previous Winners

Stormwater Professional of Year

  • 2023 –Warren Bird
  • 2022 – Nick Brown
  • 2021 – Mike Hannah
  • 2020 – Clare Feeney
  • 2019 – Mark Pennington
  • 2018 – Bronwyn Rhynd
  • 2017 – Allan Leahy
  • 2016 – Peter Mitchell

Young Stormwater Professional of Year

  • 2023 – Josiah Simmonds
  • 2022 – Richard Wilson
  • 2021 – Jonathan Chambers
  • 2020 – Matthew Lillis
  • 2019 – Josh Irvine

Paper of Year

  • 2023  – Te Kuneroatanga: The Evolution of Stormwater Management Plants – Giving Effect to Te Mana o te Wai – Sarah Dudson & Brent Hamilton (WSP), Grant Hall (Timaru District Council), Mark Ellis (Pattle Delamore Partners), Treena Davidson (Aoraki Environmental Consultants Limited)
  • 2022 – Fish Passage Design Of High Cradient Channels Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) – Mark Groves
  • 2021 – Super-critical Considerations For Steep Stream Design – Laura Newman-Watt & Josh Irvine
  • 2020 – Does your Retention meet your Intention – Mark Groves, Bodo Hellberg, Brendon Schicker and Warren Bird
  • 2019 – Activating WSUD  –  Jonathan Moores, Sue Ira , Robin Simcock and Chris Batstone
  • 2018 – Continuous Flow Simulation – Jahangir Islam, Nick Brown and Josh Irvine
  • 2017 – TP108 – Where to from here? – Graham Levy
  • 2016 – Planning for Exceedance in a Changing Climate – Mike Law

Poster of the Year

  • 2023 – Soakholes for sustainable, reliable stormwater disposal across Aotearoa
  • 2022 – Integrating Fish Attributes and Freshwater Metrics to Support Instream Design

Innovation of Year

  • 2023 – Virtual Eyes – Auckland Council, Lynker Analytics and Mott MacDoanld
  • 2022 – The End of Zinc from galvanized Roofs
  • 2021 – Optical Bathymetry Toolkit – Land River Sea Consulting Ltd
  • 2020 – Fencetank – Stormwater Systems Limited
  • 2019 – Storminator – University of Canterbury
  • 2018 – LittaTrapTM – Stormwater 360