Reference Document - Bushfire Management Plan - 132005.638.04

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                 Windspeed                n/a        Minimum distance to < 29                   12.4 m
                                                     kW/m²
                 Heat of combustion 18,600           Minimum distance to < 19                   18.2 m
                                         kJ/kg       kW/m²
                 Flame temperature       1,090 K     Minimum distance to <                      26.3 m
                                                     12.5 kW/m²
                                                     Minimum distance to < 10                   31.5 m
                                                     kW/m²
                 Rate of Spread - Mcarthur, 1973 & Noble et al., 1980
                 Flame length - NSW Rural Fire Service, 2001 & Noble et al., 1980
                 Elevation of receiver - Douglas & Tan, 2005
                 Flame angle - Douglas & Tan, 2005
                 Radiant heat flux - Drysdale, 1999, Sullivan et al., 2003, Douglas & Tan, 2005



                 Based on the above bushfire hazard mapping            Existing Bushfire Management
                 methodologies, the State Planning Policy,
                 Natural Hazards, Risk and Resilience Bushfire         Infrastructure
                 hazard mapping and the Bushfire Hazard
                 overlay map in the Noosa Planning Scheme              As the land fill and administrative and
                 maps much of the land as a medium                     recycling facility are located within the
                 potential bushfire hazard (see Figures 9 &            vegetated area, based on the management
                 10).                                                  requirements specified in the 2011 Bushfire
                                                                       Management Plan the following bushfire
                 The mapping also includes the areas                   mitigations infrastructure has been
                 mapping as the Regional Ecosystem 12.5.3              developed.
                 as High potential bushfire hazard.
                                                                       Further, a 5 to 20 metres wide firebreak is
                 The mapping also includes an area mapped              also located around the existing buildings in
                 as the RE 12.5.6 as an are of very high               the north-western corner of the
                 potential bushfire hazard.                            administrative and plant servicing areas of
                                                                       the land fill operations centre.
                 With regard to the administrative area within
                 the Waste Transfer Centre both current and            All other structures are separated from
                 proposed, this area abuts an area of high             potentially hazardous vegetation by car
                 potential bushfire hazard to the immediate            parking areas or internal roads and as such
                 north and a figure of Medium potential                these provide an acceptable level of bushfire
                 bushfire hazard.                                      risk.


                 Further lands to the west of Eumundi –                In addition to these firebreaks three fire
                 Noosa Road are also mapped as an area of              management lines (fire trails) have been
                 high potential bushfire hazard and as the             constructed as identified in the 2011 bushfire
                 administration centre is within 100 metres of         management plan.
                 that polygon of High potential bushfire
                 hazard, that mapping is to also be taken in           Further the central and western areas of the
                 consideration when planning the facility for          property also contain tracks which can be
                 bushfire protection.                                  used for bushfire management and as such
                                                                       should be identified as a fire management
                                                                       line.

                           RFA24-059 – Noosa Land Fill and Waste Management Facility – Bushfire Management Plan

                 Rob Friend & Associates Pty Ltd                                                   10th of October 2024

Document Set ID: 23617065
Version: 1, Version Date: 05/03/2025