RFI - Attachment D - Assessment of Environmental values - Callaghan and Toth

Ecological Assessment Report for Proposed Hinterland Adventure Playground – Noosa Shire Council
August 2109 by Noosa & District Landcare


The following is an excerpt of the Water Act 2000 applicable to the above application:

Part 4 Riverine protection
Division 1 Granting permits for destroying vegetation, excavating or placing fill in a watercourse, lake or spring
218 Applying for permit to destroy vegetation, excavate or place fill in a watercourse, lake or spring
(1) A person may apply to the chief executive for a permit (a riverine protection permit) to do any or all of the following
activities—
          (a) destroy vegetation in a watercourse, lake or spring;
          (b) excavate in a watercourse, lake or spring;
          (c) place fill in a watercourse, lake or spring.
(2) Subsection (3) applies if the applicant is neither of the following in relation to land that wholly contains the watercourse,
lake or spring or the part of the watercourse, lake or spring where the activity is to take place—
          (a) the registered owner of the land;
          (b) the holder of a mineral development licence or a mining lease under the Mineral Resources Act for the land.
(3) The application must include the written consent of the registered owners of land—
          (a) wholly containing the length of the watercourse in which the activity is to take place or the part of the lake or
          spring where the activity is to take place; or
          (b) adjoining the watercourse, lake or spring where the activity is to take place.
(4)The application must—
          (a) be made to the chief executive in the approved form; and
          (b) state the proposed activity and the purpose of the activity; and
          (c) be accompanied by the fee prescribed by regulation.




Additional information may be required on submission of the permit application including, a
statement of environmental effects, quantity and type of vegetation to be removed and a time
frame of intended works. Additional information that may be required includes: general knowledge
of the seasonal behaviour of the water course; any perceived impacts on the flow of the
watercourse; and, a valid reason for the intended works.




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