2016-02-02 P&O Committee - Item 3 - Attachment 3 - Noosa River Environmental Values and Water Quality Objectives

Noosa River environmental values and water quality objectives




    1 Introduction
This document is made pursuant to the provisions of the Environmental Protection (Water) Policy 2009 (the
EPP [Water]), which is subordinate legislation under the Environmental Protection Act 1994. The EPP
(Water) provides a framework for:
• identifying environmental values for Queensland waters, and deciding the water quality objectives to
    protect or enhance those environmental values; and
• including the identified environmental values and water quality objectives under Schedule 1 of the EPP
    (Water).

This document contains environmental values and water quality objectives for waters in the Noosa River and
Teewah Sands catchment, and is listed under schedule 1 of the EPP (Water).


1.1 Waters to which this document applies
This document applies to fresh, estuarine and marine surface waters and ground waters draining the
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catchment of Noosa River and Teewah Sands, as indicated in the accompanying plan (WQ1401) . These
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waters fall within the broader Noosa basin (basin 140) .

Waters covered by this document include:
• Noosa River;
• Lakes Cootharaba, Cooroibah, Weyba and Doonella;
• other fresh and estuarine waters within the Noosa River and Teewah Sands catchment;
• open coastal (oceanic) waters adjoining the Noosa River and Teewah Sands catchment;
• tidal canals, constructed estuaries, marinas and boat harbours;
• wetlands; and
• ground waters.

The geographical extent of waters addressed by this document is shown in the plan (WQ1401), and is
broadly:
•   north to the boundary of the Noosa River and Teewah Sands catchment with the Great Sandy Strait/Tin
    Can Inlet catchment;
•   west to the boundary of the Noosa River and Teewah Sands catchment with the Mary River catchment;
•   south to the boundary of the Noosa River and Teewah Sands catchment with the Maroochy River
    catchment; and
•   east to the boundary of Queensland waters with Commonwealth waters.




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  This document and the accompanying plan are available in electronic form from the Environmental Values web page
on the Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) website: http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/.
The boundaries in the accompanying plan WQ1401 are indicative only. The water types and management intent
depicted in the accompanying plan are stored in electronic form as part of the SEQ Environmental Values Schedule 1
Database July 2010 and held at the DERM offices at 41 George Street Brisbane. Database regions are based on the
regions established in the Queensland water quality guidelines. For further information on accessing the database,
please contact DERM by email at [email protected]
  Australia’s River Basins 1997 – Product User Guide. Published by Geoscience Australia. Canberra, ACT (3rd edition,
2004).


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