Reference Document - Bushfire Management Plan - 132005.638.04

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                 Further the eastern area also contains a              Fire Management Zones
                 firebreak at the rear of the residential lots of
                 Paradise Drive, Weyba Downs. It is noted              Three Bushfire Management Zones have
                 that these residential properties are within          been identified within and around the
                 the Sunshine Coast Regional Council area as           Doonan Waste Management Centre and
                 is Eumarella Road.                                    these include (see Figure 11);

                 We note that the waste management centre                 A Conservation Zone (CZ). The CZ
                 is not connected to reticulated water and as              captures the areas containing native
                 such, access to water for bushfire                        vegetation outside of the Infrastructure
                 suppression activities is dependent on the                Zone. The central and eastern areas have
                 onsite water storage                                      been included into this BMP whereas
                                                                           they were excluded from the 2011 FMP.
                 Bushfire Management Plan                                  The management objectives of the
                                                                           Conservation Zone are: -
                 Planning Methodology                                      o   Protect and enhance the vegetation
                                                                               communities and habitat for all flora
                 The 2011 Fire Management Plan used the                        and fauna species.
                 identification of Fire Management Zones                   o Ensure the zone is appropriately
                 which sought to identify various land                         protected by severe wild fire events.
                 management used within and around the                    An Infrastructure Zone (IZ). The IZ
                 Doonan Waste Management Centre to                         encompasses the area within the Doonan
                 identify what bushfire management                         Waste Management Centre both current
                 objectives were important.                                and based on the proposed re-
                                                                           development proposal future land uses
                 With the fire management zones identified a               where infrastructure and other waste
                 series of fire management units were                      management activities will be
                 mapped and these were used to undertake                   undertaken. It must be noted that from
                 particular hazard management actions such                 time to time parts of the Infrastructure
                 as physical fuel removal or the use of                    Zone may contained vegetation, however
                 controlled burns to manage fuel loads within              this should be managed to ensure fuel
                 an area.                                                  loads are not permitted to build up so as
                                                                           to become a hazard to life and property.
                 We would also note that the management of
                 fuel loads were to be achieved to ensure                  The Infrastructure Zone also includes the
                 minimal or no overall environmental or                    RSPCA Animal Refuge complex as it
                 ecological degradation to the vegetation                  resides within the property.
                 communities and ecological values within
                 the property.                                             The management objectives for the
                                                                           Infrastructure Zone are: -
                 The other difference between the 2011 Fire
                 Management Plan and this 2024 Bushfire                    o   To ensure life and property within the
                 Management Plan is that the area of land                      zone are sufficiently protected from
                 subject to this plan is the whole of the                      and during a bushfire event,
                 property rather than just the vegetation and              o   Ensure, where possible that all
                 area around the Waste Management Centre.                      structures are separated from areas
                                                                               of hazardous vegetation such that its


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

                 Rob Friend & Associates Pty Ltd                                                   10th of October 2024

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Version: 1, Version Date: 05/03/2025