Reference Document - Bushfire Risk Assessment & Bushfire Risk Management Plan

                                Ecological Natural Area Management

      8.7      Recommendations for Part E: Natural hazards of Qld State Planning Policy 2017........................26
9 References................................................................................................................................................ 27
10 Appendices.............................................................................................................................................. 28
    10.1 Appendix 1: Regional Ecosystem full descriptions........................................................................28
    10.2 Appendix 2: Software report from the bushfire behaviour modelling.............................................29
    10.3 Appendix 3: Qualifications and experience of the author..............................................................32
    10.4 Appendix 4: The fire run paper by Tan (2006)...............................................................................33


                                                                 List of Figures
Figure 1: Site plan showing the location of the house in the lot........................................................................8
Figure 2: Excerpt from The Noosa Plan Bushfire Overlay map showing the house in an area mapped as High
Potential Bushfire Intensity............................................................................................................................... 9
Figure 3: Excerpt from Qld Potential Bushfire Intensity mapping showing the house in an area mapped as
Very High Potential Bushfire Intensity............................................................................................................... 9
Figure 4: Aerial photo showing Lot configuration, house location, approved building envelope, vegetated
areas, rural residential areas, mapped watercourses and 5m contour lines...................................................10
Figure 5: Map of the Queensland Vegetation Management Act conservation status of the mapped Remnant
regional Ecosystems near the house.............................................................................................................. 11
Figure 6: View the lot confirming the vegetation is Eucalyptus spp open forest..............................................12
Figure 7: Map of the visually assessed vegetation.........................................................................................13
Figure 8: Map of vegetation patches used for assessment of patch and corridor filtering...............................17
Figure 9: Map of the assessed Bushfire Intensity Classes showing that all of the the house in an area
assessed as Potential Bushfire Impact Buffer Class.......................................................................................19
Figure 10: Map showing the modelled bushfire attacks..................................................................................20
Figure 11: Fuel accumulation curves for open forests in eastern Australia.....................................................21
Figure 12: Methodologies for minimising the lodgement points for burning debris around the house.............25

                                                                   List of Tables
Table 1: Regional Ecosystems near the house............................................................................................... 11
Table 2: Conservation significance of the Remnant Regional Ecosystems derived from the Queensland
Vegetation Act................................................................................................................................................. 14
Table 3: Potential fuel loads for the assessed vegetation communities based on their applicable potential fuel
hazard classes................................................................................................................................................ 16
Table 4: Patch filtering tabulation.................................................................................................................... 17
Table 5: Table of Potential Bushfire Intensity Class derived from Potential Fire line Intensity.........................18
Table 6: Tabulation of the potential bushfire intensity classes for each of the patches ...................................18
Table 7: Surface and total fuel loads for use in AS3959 Method 2 assessments of BALs...............................21
Table 8: Excerpt from State Planning Policy Natural Hazards, Risk and Resilience Technical Manual of
potential maximum fuel accumulation for the subject vegetation communities...............................................22
Table 9: Assessed Bushfire Attack Levels (BAL) for the modelled bushfire attacks........................................23




Bushfire Risk Assessment and Management Plan for a house at 64 Pheasant Lane, Doonan                                                         September 2020

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