11c Church St Pomona Ecological Assessment Rev B

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Site field assessments were undertaken and controlled to target passive survey techniques
across the site, including potential development disturbances. Preliminary inspections were
undertaken on 3 January 2022, and ecological assessments were undertaken on 26 January
and 4 February 2022 performed as diurnal surveys. A site plan and photos of field assessment
are included in Appendix D.


EPBC threatened ecological communities, or intact remnant vegetation was not observed
within the project area. EBPC listed threatened or NCA listed EVNT species was not
observed on site. No significant vegetation stress was observed during the field assessment.
The subject site outside the riparian buffer zone was observed as significantly modified and
dominated by maintained grass areas. Most sections of the site have undergone regular
clearing and maintenance typical of a modified landscape consistent with the desktop
assessment.


Regrowth on the site was observed during the field assessment to have predominately
developed in the riparian buffer zone and Church Street verge. Canopy trees on the site
display a median height of 18m dominated (approximately 70% cover) by invasive species
that comprise Camphor Laurel (Cinnamomum camphora) and Plantation pine (Pinus elliottii).
Native species including pioneering forms characteristic of mapped RE described in Table 2
were relative to mapped preclearing vegetation communities (Appendix B). This site is
inferred to be in a period of succession and anthropogenic alteration such as reoccurring
historical vegetation clearing has likely removed the native canopy trees such as Eucalyptus
grandis (Flooded Gum) canopy characteristic of mapped preclearing RE 12.3.2 recorded
onsite.


Native species observed include Blackbutt (Eucalyptus pilularis), Acacia spp. (A. disparrima
subsp. disparrima, A. oshanesii and A. melanoxylon), Brushbox (Lophostemon confertus),
Willow bottlebrush (Melaleuca salicina), Red Ash (Alphitonia excelsa) and Cheese wood
(Glochidion ferdinandi). Understory vegetation is generally sparse due to the low light
conditions and colonised by a mosaic of ferns and sedge species. Understory was observed
to include predominately introduced or invasive vegetation with some native species such as
Bracken fern (Pteridium esculentum) and Creek mat rush (Lomandra hystrix). Invasive and
introduced species observed on-site during the ecological assessment, including Noosa


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