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                                                      Burgess Creek Monitoring Program
                                                                            Annual Review 2022

   enterococci. The guidelines also discuss the primary recreational limit set in New Zealand
   for E.coli, but this value has not been adopted in Australia within these guidelines nor in
   other guidelines published. No secondary recreational limits for E.coli have been
   prescribed or published in New Zealand. The primary and secondary limits prescribed
   within the ANZECC (2000) Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine
   Water Quality are in Table 3.

    Table 3. Primary and Secondary Recreational Contact Guideline Values

       Microbiological Indicator       Units                 Primary                   Secondary
                                                             Recreational              Recreational
                                                             Guideline Limit           Guideline Limit

       Enterococci                     cfu/100mL             35                        230
       Thermotolerant coliforms        cfu/100mL             150                       1000

       E.coli                          cfu/100mL             1260                      NA

  3.3     Noosa STP treated wastewater release conditions
  The Noosa STP is authorised to release treated wastewater in accordance with conditions
  NHW2, and NHW3 within the EA outlined in Figure 3.

  Figure 3. Condition NHW2 and NHW3 of Environmental Authority EPPR008691113 (p40).




  These release limits stipulate the minimum quality of the treated wastewater that can be
  released from the prescribed release points. An extract of key release limits for treated
  wastewater at Noosa STP from Schedule 2, Table 26 from the EA is in Table 4 and Table
  5.

  Table 4. Mass Load limits at the Noosa STP

   Average Annual       Nitrogen 50th       Nitrogen           Phosphorus           Phosphorous
   Flow (ML/year)       Percentile          (Kg/year)          50th Percentile
                        (mg/L)                                 (mg/L)               (Kg/year)


   5110                 5                   25 550             1                    5 110




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