2019-01-14 General Committee Agenda - Attachment 1 to Item 1 - Original Court Approval for Bottling Plant

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|                    3) Site characteristics                            ‘moderately inclined’ (>20%).*
                            :                   ieti                    typically ‘very gently inclined’ (<3%) to
{                     3.1   Site location                               Runoff from the site flows towards a small
                      The proposed development site is focated        __un-named waterway flowing across the
|                     at 314 Cooroy Mountain Road, Mt. Cooroy,          site. This waterway flows from the south-
                      Queensland. The site is properly described        west corner of the site toward the north-
‘_                    as Lot 2 on $P143409, Parish of Tewantin.         east and eventually onto Lake McDonald.
                      3.2   Geolog                                      A number of small dams are located on-site
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                      A review of the Queensland Department of          stock and capture site run-off for irrigation
f                     Mines and Energy 1:100,000 Gympie Special         of landscaped areas.
                      Sheet? geology map indicates that the
 [                    elevated sections of the site are underlain       3.5 Vegetation
                      by Tertiary Rhyolite formations while the                         .             .
                      lower portions of the site surrounding            With the exception of the relatively small
                      waterways are located over early to middle        The majority of the site is cleared and
                      Triassic Arenite, Argillite and Phyllite of the   covered by pasture grasses for cattle
 i                     Kin Kin Beds formation.                          grazing purposes. The bottling facility site
                                                                        was also previously cleared and planted to
 [                     3.3  Soil classification                          pasture for this purpose.       .
                      While no on-site soil studies have been            A significant area of mature trees and other
 [ .                   undertaken by Gilbert & Sutherland as part        planted vegetation is located to the east of
                       of this assessment, the above geology is          the bottling facility and incorporates the
 f ;                   known to give rise to a number of soil            eastern drainage line, with scattered
                      types’.                                            riparian vegetation (both pre-existing and
 j                                                                       planted) occupying the banks of the main
                       Soils based ‘on Tertiary Rhyolite formations      tributary to the west of the bottling facility
 [                     are generally acidic in nature and produce        and towards the northern boundary. This
   -                   Tenosols, Sodosols and Kurosols.                  vegetation is currently mapped as regrowth
                                                                         area under the Queensland Regional
 f                     Kin Kin bed derived soils tend not to be as       Ecosystem (RE) classification.
                       acidic and have been found to produce red
 f                     and yellow Chromosols and Tenosols.               Further dense vegetation exists on the
                                                                         eastern boundary which is mapped as
 {                     A detailed soil survey and permeability           dominant “Of Concern” and remnant “Not
                       testing would be undertaken as part of the        of Concern” under the Queensland
 [                     detailed assessment at Operational Works          Regiona! Ecosystem (RE) classification.
   .                   application stage.
 L.                    3.4 Topography and drainage
 [                     Elevation at the site ranges from
   .       -           approximately RL105 metres along the                                                                     .
                       central waterway to greater than RL140
    .                  metres in the steeper south-eastern and
                       eastern portion of the site. The slopes are
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 |               #     Queensland Government, Brisbane.                  “ McDonald, RC, Isbell, RF, Speight, JG, Walker, J and
          oe      70   3 Shields, P., 1995, Geology and Soils of Noosa Shire, Hopkins, MS 1990, Australian Soil and Land Survey
     eee Sane o        Noosa Shire Planning Scheme Review, Noosa Shire   Field Handbook, Australian Soil and Land Survey
 | Min Qabedi ie       Council, Tewantin, Queensland.                    Handbooks, 2nd edn, vol 1, Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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