UPDATED DA - Attachment 6 - Bushfire Management Plan

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Options for fuel reduction                          burning may be safely undertaken during the
                                                    day.
Fuel reduction can be accomplished at this
                                                    Back burns should be initiated from a well-
site with either prescribed burning or
                                                    defended fire trail. If the fire trails as
mechanical fuel reduction.
                                                    identified in this plan are developed to
                                                    ensure all weather access is maintained they
Mechanical fuel load reduction is practical for
                                                    should be suitable for both controlled and
regrowth and grassed areas within the
                                                    wildfire suppression operations.
Landfill area and the road and track verges,
however it is impractical for the rest of the
                                                    Fire trails and firebreaks
site.

                                                    Fire trails and firebreaks provide the basis for
The only practical way to manage fuel loads
                                                    conducting controlled burns or wildfire
within the Conservation Zone is too
                                                    suppression from. This fire management
undertaken controlled burns.
                                                    plan specifies the development of a number
                                                    of fire trails and firebreaks.
This plan provides the basis for conducting
controlled burn via the fire management
                                                    The fire trails and firebreaks have been
units.
                                                    located throughout the Landfill site too
                                                    breakup the site into discrete fire
Fire Suppression
                                                    management units not only to provide a
                                                    strategy to reduce fuel loads and manage the
Back burning
                                                    reserves biodiversity but also by establishing
Back burning is undertaken to remove the            a mosaic of burn patches which will
                                                    influence the spread of a wildfire through the
fuel from a vegetated area in the path of a
                                                    site.
fire so that when the fire reaches the burnout
area it has no fuel available and self-
                                                    The purpose of a fire trail is to identify those
extinguishes.
                                                    tracks which have been developed to enable
In both controlled burning and wildfire             access for bushfire suppression appliances
                                                    whether they are Council or Qld Fire and
suppression operations, back burning is the
                                                    Rescue Service appliances.
major method of controlling the fire.
Temperature and humidity trends must be
                                                    The purpose of a firebreak is to protect
monitored carefully to determine the safest
                                                    infrastructure and vegetated areas from a
times to implement back burns.
                                                    low to medium intensity burn, however it
As controlled burns would generally not be          may not be necessary or suitable to permit
                                                    vehicles to traverse a firebreak.
undertaken when the fire danger index is
above high, back burning would not be
                                                    It is noted that QFD urban appliances are not
necessary. However, in wildfire suppression
                                                    normally taken onto earthen tracks and
operations and a wildfire would potentially
                                                    therefore fire trails will mostly be utilised by
only threaten the Landfill site and
                                                    Rural and Council appliances.
neighbouring vegetation properties when the
Fire Danger Index (FDI) is greater than high,
back burning should commence when the
humidity begins to rise in the late afternoon
or early evening. With a lower FDI back
        RFA24-059 – Noosa Land Fill and Waste Management Facility – Bushfire Management Plan

Rob Friend & Associates Pty Ltd                                                  10th of October 2024