MCU14/0028 Appendix 3 chicken-meat-guidelines

                                                   standards in the National Farm Biosecurity
                                                   Manual Poultry Production is available.

                                                   A13
                                                   A back-up water supply must be maintained
                                                   which has a minimum of two days water
                                                   supply available at all times for emergency
                                                   use.

                                                   A14
                                                   Strategies are implemented for managing
                                                   power supply failures (e.g. installation of
                                                   back-up generators).


4.4         Surface and groundwater
Stormwater management is important to ensure that development does not adversely impact on
the environmental values and water quality of a waterway or wetland. Meat chicken farming is an
intensive use and requires active management of stormwater to ensure that run-off and leachate
from nutrient rich sources do not pollute surface waters (creeks, rivers, dams, lakes, etc) and
groundwater.

    Performance criteria                           Acceptable solution
    P1                                             A1
    The design and operation of the meat           No acceptable solution.
    chicken farm incorporates integrated water
    management elements so that:                   A2
     stormwater peak discharges and run-off       Locating the meat chicken farm complex
        volumes are not increased                  (including sheds and waste storage areas)
     natural drainage lines and hydrological      on land that is not subject to flooding by the
        regimes are maintained as far as           100 year ARI event.
        practicable.
                                                   A3
    P2                                             Wash down water should be:
    The environmental values and quality of the     collected and stored in a suitably sized
    receiving waters within or downstream of the      effluent pond
    development are maintained.                     applied sustainably to utilisation areas.

    P3                                             A4
    Stormwater must be prevented from entering     Nutrient, pathogen and contaminant levels
    all sheds and waste storage areas.             in stormwater discharged from the meat
                                                   chicken farm do not exceed the water
                                                   quality guideline levels of the Australian and
                                                   New Zealand guidelines for fresh and
                                                   marine water quality 2000 and the relevant
                                                   regional plan prior to release into the
                                                   environment.

                                                   A5
                                                   Buffer zones are provided around the meat
                                                   chicken farm complex and litter utilisation
                                                   areas (see Appendix 1) to reduce the risk of
                                                   surface water contamination.


Queensland Guidelines Meat Chicken Farms                                                     22