2022-05-16 GC Agenda - Item 7 - Attachment 1 - Report from Marine Approval Specialists

Performance outcome               Acceptable outcome                   Applicant response            Assessment
                                                                                Sulphate Soils or
                                                                                otherwise).
12.7 Prescribed tidal works are   The design and construction of the   Complies with Performance     The applicant has demonstrated
designed and constructed in a     prescribed tidal works is            Outcome 12.7.                 compliance with PO12.7.
way to ensure they are safe for   consistent with the following        The works have been           The Project is designed and
persons using the works.          standards—                           designed to be stable and     constructed in a way to ensure they
                                  (a) subject to paragraph (d), each   well interlocked with gaps    are safe for persons using them,
                                  Australian Standard relevant         between reef patches that     given they are primarily located on
                                  to the design or construction        are 1-4m wide at the          the seabed for oyster habitat
                                  of structures, the materials         seabed. The works are         restoration purposes. The key
                                  that should be used, or the          considered to be generally    location where public safety is a
                                  measures that should be taken        safe for an aware person      concern is the load-out facility and
                                  to treat materials used, for         monitoring the works          appropriate management and
                                  structures, to the extent the        and/or carefully traversing   separation of project activities from
                                  requirements stated in the           between individual            ongoing public use has been
                                  Standard are directed at             modules. The modules          considered.
                                  ensuring any surface of              themselves are not
                                  prescribed tidal works on            intended to be traversed
                                  which a person may stand or          and are designed to have
                                  walk is—                             uneven surfaces with voids
                                  (i) not slippery; and                and loose oyster shell to
                                  (ii) does not have any               provide a suitably complex
                                  feature that may cause               habitat that has the
                                  the person to trip or fall;          potential to provide a trip
                                  (b) subject to paragraph (d), any    hazard. Over time, these
                                  part of prescribed tidal works       surfaces are intended to be
                                  that is unsafe for persons           inhabited by oysters and
                                  using the works is surrounded        other species which could
                                  by adequate barriers to deter        result in the rocks
                                  persons from entering the            becoming both slippery
                                  part;                                and sharp. These risks are
                                  (c) subject to paragraph (d), each   inherent with the natural