2022-10-24 General Committee Meeting- Item 7 - Attachment 1 - Noosa Oyster Ecosystem Restoration Project - Final Report (1)

 Community engagement, volunteering
 and media                                              424,397          177,722          171,912          147,451         497,085
 Community engagement products, engagement
 coordination,     sub-contractor   identification,
 contracting and management, volunteer briefings,
 volunteer recruitment, stakeholder meetings,
 personal protective equipment, media statements,
 media management and education material
 production and distribution.

 Project Management
                                                        240,000          102,017          135,947             5,329        243,293
 Production of Project Management Plan, Monitoring
 Evaluation and Reporting Plan, Communications
 Plan, project risk assessments, plan and risk
 refinements and revisions, government permitting,
 legal, technical science support.


 Total expenditure
                                                      2,400,000          434,554          809,452        1,157,451       2,401,456

* Expenditures are exclusive of GST
** Total expenditures are subject to minor accounting adjustments on project closure

Expenditure against major contracts

A breakdown of expenditure against major contracts is given in Table 10.

Table 10: Major contracts*

 Contractor/Partner                               Work area                                                             Expenditure

 NorthGroup                                       Bathymetric surveys of 6 potential oyster restoration sites in the        12,000
                                                  Noosa River estuary

 Ecological Service Professionals                 Ecological habitat mapping at 6 potential oyster restoration sites        38,994
                                                  in the Noosa River estuary

 Ecological Service Professionals                 Baseline ecological and shoreline erosion monitoring at 4                 34,965
                                                  restoration sites plus relevant control sites in the Noosa River
                                                  estuary
 Integrated Coastal Management                    Oyster reef patch engineering design support – concept models             33,900
                                                  and reef patch placement at 4 restoration sites in the Noosa
                                                  River estuary
 Integrated Coastal Management                    Coordination and technical support for development approvals              10,000
                                                  (state/local) for on-water restoration works at 4 restoration sites
                                                  in the Noosa River estuary

 Integrated Coastal Management                    Oversight and Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland              24,290
                                                  (RPEQ) certification of reef construction works

 M&J Marine Services                              Reef construction, channel markers, drone surveys of restoration         660,000
                                                  sites.

 Noosa Environmental Education Hub                Community outreach - Senior schools engagement project                    31,500


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