Jellyfish Compliance with SQIDEP · MCU15/0122

Australian Journal of Water Research
ISSN: 2203-9482 (Print) ISSN: 2203-9490 (Online)

1. Introduction
Stormwater runoff transports a range of pollutants and is a significant non-point source of urban water
pollution. Effective removal of stormwater pollutants requires treatment technologies that are
appropriate to site constraints, as well as rainfall and pollutant load characteristics. A range of
engineered stormwater treatment systems are marketed by various commercial vendors. Assessing
their performance requires quantification of inputs and outputs to receiving environments under diverse
event durations, flows, and loads, Herr and Sansalone (2015).
The Jellyfish® Filter is an engineered stormwater quality treatment technology featuring membrane
filtration in a compact stand-alone treatment system that is designed to remove a wide variety of
stormwater pollutants. The Jellyfish® Filter integrates pre-treatment and filtration with a passive self-
cleaning mechanism. The system utilizes membrane filtration cartridges with high filtration surface
area and flow capacity and designed to operate under relatively low driving head compared to
conventional filter systems. Performance of the Jellyfish® Filter as a stormwater treatment device had
been tested and deemed appropriate for the US market (UoF, 2011).
Extensive field testing of the Jellyfish® Filter treatment device had been undertaken in the US by
University of Florida. However, further performance testing under Australian climatic conditions was
considered essential for the introduction of the Jellyfish® Filter to the local market. Accordingly,
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) was requested by Humes Australia to undertake a
comprehensive field based monitoring study to verify the performance of the treatment device under
South East Queensland (SEQ) climatic conditions.
A two phase approach was adopted by QUT to assess the treatment performance of the Jellyfish® Filter.
The first phase consisted of assessing the compatibility of performance characteristics reported in UoF
(2011) to South East Queensland (SEQ) climatic conditions using advanced statistical approaches. The
second phase consisted of evaluating the treatment performance under SEQ climatic condition by
undertaking a field monitoring program centered on a device installed at Ipswich, South East
Queensland.
Phase 1 of the study has been completed and reported in August 2014 (Egodawatta et al. 2014). This
paper follows on from Phase 1 and presents the findings to date of the field monitoring program
currently being undertaken as Phase 2.
2. Monitoring System
2.1 Site Description
The site is a recently developed commercial facility located at 292 Brisbane Street, West Ipswich 4305,
QLD. The site has a total area of 1678m2 with approximately 550m2 of roof area and 1128m2 of
impervious driveways and parking lots. Figure 1 shows the layout of the development, including the
stormwater drainage network.

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Figure 1. Study Site: (a) Aerial View; (b) Drainage Network

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