Cover Letter, DA Form 1, Plans, Owners Consent, Coastal Environment Assessment · OPW21/0049

 Noosa Spit Coastal Protection Environmental Assessment                                                  9
 Matters of State Environmental Significance




3.2      Marine Plants
         The Significant Residual Impact Guidelines (Queensland Government, 2014), states the
         following impacts to marine plants are considered significant:

         • More than 50m2 of marine plants above tidal limits will be permanently removed as a result
             of the project; AND

         • Onsite rehabilitation or restoration will not result in an equal or larger area of marine plants,
           providing equal or better fisheries values, within 5 years of clearing.

         Notwithstanding the above, an action is unlikely to have a SRI on marine plants if:

         (a) the removal or destruction of marine plants is within an additional 25% of an area or linear
               width of clearing that would otherwise be exempt from code assessment;

         (b) the area impacted is expected to return to its pre disturbance condition within 5 years;

         (c) the removal of marine plants is associated with coastal protection work or other approved
               marine development and will disturb less than 50m2 of marine plants, and the marine
               plants being removed are above tidal limits (HAT) or bankfull width;

         (d) the removal of marine plants does not exceed 25m2; OR

         (e) onsite rehabilitation or restoration results in at least an equal area of marine plants,
               providing similar or better fisheries values, within 5 years of clearing.

3.2.1    Existing Habitats
         The Spit currently supports the following vegetation communities as described below and
         mapped in Figure 3-2:

         • Dune Woodland;

         • Foredune;

         • Saltmarsh; and

         • Mangroves.




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