UPDATED DA - Attachment 6 - Bushfire Management Plan

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Windspeed               n/a         Minimum distance to < 29                   12.4 m
                                    kW/m²
Heat of combustion 18,600           Minimum distance to < 19                   18.2 m
                        kJ/kg       kW/m²
Flame temperature       1,090 K     Minimum distance to <                      26.3 m
                                    12.5 kW/m²
                                    Minimum distance to < 10                   31.5 m
                                    kW/m²
Rate of Spread - Mcarthur, 1973 & Noble et al., 1980
Flame length - NSW Rural Fire Service, 2001 & Noble et al., 1980
Elevation of receiver - Douglas & Tan, 2005
Flame angle - Douglas & Tan, 2005
Radiant heat flux - Drysdale, 1999, Sullivan et al., 2003, Douglas & Tan, 2005



Based on the above bushfire hazard mapping          Existing Bushfire Management
methodologies, the State Planning Policy,
Natural Hazards, Risk and Resilience Bushfire       Infrastructure
hazard mapping and the Bushfire Hazard
overlay map in the Noosa Planning Scheme            As the land fill and administrative and
maps much of the land as a medium                   recycling facility are located within the
potential bushfire hazard (see Figures 9 &          vegetated area, based on the management
10).                                                requirements specified in the 2011 Bushfire
                                                    Management Plan the following bushfire
The mapping also includes the areas                 mitigations infrastructure has been
mapping as the Regional Ecosystem 12.5.3            developed.
as High potential bushfire hazard.
                                                    Further, a 5 to 20 metres wide firebreak is
The mapping also includes an area mapped            also located around the existing buildings in
as the RE 12.5.6 as an are of very high             the north-western corner of the
potential bushfire hazard.                          administrative and plant servicing areas of
                                                    the land fill operations centre.
With regard to the administrative area within
the Waste Transfer Centre both current and          All other structures are separated from
proposed, this area abuts an area of high           potentially hazardous vegetation by car
potential bushfire hazard to the immediate          parking areas or internal roads and as such
north and a figure of Medium potential              these provide an acceptable level of bushfire
bushfire hazard.                                    risk.


Further lands to the west of Eumundi –              In addition to these firebreaks three fire
Noosa Road are also mapped as an area of            management lines (fire trails) have been
high potential bushfire hazard and as the           constructed as identified in the 2011 bushfire
administration centre is within 100 metres of       management plan.
that polygon of High potential bushfire
hazard, that mapping is to also be taken in         Further the central and western areas of the
consideration when planning the facility for        property also contain tracks which can be
bushfire protection.                                used for bushfire management and as such
                                                    should be identified as a fire management
                                                    line.

        RFA24-059 – Noosa Land Fill and Waste Management Facility – Bushfire Management Plan

Rob Friend & Associates Pty Ltd                                                 10th of October 2024