2018-07-10 P&E Agenda Attachment 1 to Item 8 - Draft Noosa River Plan

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  Moderate flooding – may occur              Major flooding – may occur at             Extreme flooding – rare event
   on average once a decade.               least once in an average lifetime.         relatively few people to witness.




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Table 2. River and storm tide flood maps (Source: NSC Disaster Management).




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Lower average rainfall and more droughts equate to a hotter, drier climate i.e. increased temperatures and




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evaporation. Vegetation within the catchment is anticipated to experience some sensitivity to these effects.
The bushfire risk will also increase and is likely to be further exacerbated by other factors such as increased
understorey fuel loads from weed incursion (refer Table 3 and Map 1 below).




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     Broad Vegetation Groups (BVGs)                  Area of increased bushfire              % of total area of this
                                                               risk (ha)                       vegetation type

              Rainforest / scrubs                                5,674                                84%

                 Wet Eucalypt                                   10,556                                100%

              Eucalypt woodland                                 13,267                                100%

     Eucalypt woodland on floodplains                             975                                 95%

            Paperbark woodlands                                  7,306                                100%

    Heaths and other coastal vegetation                          5,481                                93%

                    Wetlands                                      240                                 100%

          Mangroves and Saltmarsh                                 199                                 47%

                     TOTAL                                      43,698

Table 3. Vegetation vulnerability to bushfires (Source: Noosa Biodiversity Assessment Report, 2017)




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