RFI - Attachment 4B - Flora and Fauna Assessment Rev 5

                                                                                                                                                    Native Foresters



         Performance Outcomes                                     Acceptable Outcomes                                                    Response

          watercourses and drainage lines for            a)   a riparian buffer area;                               •   MSES Regulated Vegetation – intersecting a
          native fauna movement;                         b)   a wetland area; and                                       watercourse
    d)    avoiding edge effects and damage               c)   10 metres either side of the centre line of any
                                                                                                                    •   Riparian Buffer Area
          from adjacent land uses;                            other waterway identified on a Biodiversity,
    e)    maintaining stream integrity and bank               Waterways and Wetlands Overlay Map.
          stability by minimising bank erosion                                                                  Queensland Wetland Program mapping (Wetland Maps)
          and slumping;                             AO6.3                                                       identifies the area as:
    f)    maintaining water quality through         Recreational facilities (e.g. playgrounds, pergolas,            • Palustrine Wetland – hydrologically natural, and
          filtering sediments, nutrients and        barbeques) are setback a minimum of 10 metres from              • Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain tree (Melaleuca
          other pollutants; and                     the top of the bank of a waterway.                                   and Eucalypt) swamps
    g)    removing pest species and replacing
          them with local native species.
                                                                                                                The clearing is approximately 35m to the south of the
                                                                                                                Council’s overlay mapped waterway and 30m south of the
                                                                                                                mapped riparian buffer.

                                                                                                                The clearing does not occur in a riparian buffer area or 10
                                                                                                                metres either side of the centre line of a waterway.

                                                                                                                However, the clearing does result in clearing a wetland area
                                                                                                                – up to 1.02ha. This wetland is degraded due to the
                                                                                                                infestation of Singapore Daisy accounting for over 50% of the
                                                                                                                groundlayer species.

                                                                                                                It is proposed to mitigate this loss of wetland area to:
                                                                                                                      • Undertake weed management in the retained
                                                                                                                          vegetation in accordance with a Weed Management
                                                                                                                          Plan to ensure edge effects and on-site values are
                                                                                                                          improved for the retained wetland areas, vegetation
                                                                                                                          and waterways on site.
                                                                                                                      • Rehabiltation of 1.8ha land which includes a wetland
                                                                                                                          area with a constructed riparian drainage line.
PO7                                                 No acceptable outcome provided.                             N/A
Vegetation within 400 metres of the full
ponded water within Lake
Macdonald is retained.




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