UPDATED DA - Attachment 6 - Bushfire Management Plan

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Fire Management Infrastructure

Fire management infrastructure includes firebreaks and fire trails throughout the Landfill site.
The upgrading of fire trails and establishment of formal firebreaks within each fire management
unit is provided in Tables 3 – 8.

Table 10 below identifies the fire trail and firebreaks available within the Noosaville Landfill site.

Table 10 – Fire trails and Firebreaks

Infrastructure   Description                                           Status
FT1              This fire trail is located around the current and      Currently in place
                 future re-developed service and administrative         Needs to be widened
                 area within the Doonan Waste Management                   around the current and
                 Centre                                                    proposed re-developed
                                                                           service and
                 The fire trail varies from 4 to 15 metres in width.
                                                                           administrative areas
                 The fire trail needs to be widened to a minimum
                                                                           within FMU 1.
                 width of 15 metres to ensure all new structures
                 achieve a radiant heat flux of 29kW/m2 from all
                 areas of hazardous vegetation i.e. FMU 2

FT2              This fire trail was constructed as part of the           In operational condition,
                 recommendations for the 2011 bushfire                    Regular maintenance
                 management plan and it is being maintained to             undertaken
                 date.

                 The fire trail has an access point within FMU 1
                 and from Hollett Road at its northern ingress
                 point.
FT3              This fire trail was constructed as part of the           In operational condition,
                 recommendations for the 2011 bushfire                    Regular maintenance
                 management plan and it is being maintained to             undertaken
                 date.

                 The fire trail has ingress point from Hollett Road.
                 The egress point onto Walter hay Drive is
                 constrained due to the traffic speed of 100km/h
                 and as such should not be used unless the traffic
                 speed is reduced with signage to 60 km/h.
FT4              This fire trail is an old vehicle track and may not      Firebreak to be up-
                 be suitable for bushfire management and wild              graded to permanent 6
                 fire suppression operations.                              metre wide fire trail

                 Access is from Tidswell Road at its two ingress
                 and egress points

FT5              This fire trail has been constructed and provides        Existing and Regular
                 connection through the central area between               maintenance required
                 Eumarella Road and Old Hollett Road and its has
                 a linkage with FT3.
        RFA24-059 – Noosa Land Fill and Waste Management Facility – Bushfire Management Plan

Rob Friend & Associates Pty Ltd                                                   10th of October 2024