OPW052025 Report - Part 2

Performance outcomes                                                                                                                                           Response

Waterways and wetlands
PO7                                                                                                                                     Not applicable as not within 400m of Lake Macdonald.
Vegetation within 400 metres of the full ponded water within Lake   No acceptable outcome provided.
Macdonald is retained.
PO8                                                                 AO8.1                                                               Not applicable as no development is proposed adjacent to a
Development on land adjacent to a waterway or wetland               Development adjacent to a waterway or wetland provides that:        waterway or wetland.
maintains appropriate extent of public access to waterways and      (a)   no new lots directly back onto a riparian buffer area; and
wetlands and minimises edge effects.
                                                                    (b)   new public roads are located between a riparian buffer area
                                                                          or riparian zone and the proposed development area.




Water hydrology           Table 8.2.2.3. - Criteria for assessable development (part)
Performance outcomes                                                Acceptable outcomes                                                                         Response
Surface and ground water hydrology
PO9                                                                 AO9.1                                                               The proposed driveway follows an existing track located
Development ensures that the natural surface water and ground       Development does not impact on the natural surface water or         through the allotment.
water hydrologic regimes of waterways, wetlands and                 groundwater hydrologic regimes and this is facilitated by:          Performance Outcome PO9 and Acceptable Outcome
hydrologically-sensitive plant communities are not adversely                                                                            AO9.1 can be met.
                                                                    (a)   avoiding or minimising channelization, redirection or
impacted.                                                                 interruption of flow;
                                                                    (b)   avoiding groundwater extraction;
Editor's Note—Groundwater dependent ecosystems are identified
on Queensland Government Wetland Info mapping.                      (c)   maintaining groundwater recharge and discharge
                                                                          processes;
                                                                    (d)   maintaining natural groundwater fluctuations;
                                                                    (e)   avoiding causing ingress of saline water into freshwater
                                                                          aquifers of wetlands; and
                                                                    (f)   avoiding contaminants entering groundwater (e.g. from
                                                                          runoff, effluent disposal).