Attachment 7C - Flora and Fauna Survey Assessment_Noosa Landfill - Revision 3

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   6.6 Matters of State Environmental Significance ....................................................................61
REFERENCES ..................................................................................................................................62
APPENDIX A – MAP OF AREA COVERED BY PERMIT A .............................................................64
APPENDIX B – NOOSA LANDFILL LAYOUT PLAN ........................................................................65
APPENDIX C - CURRENT AND PROPOSED SURFACE WATER FLOWS ...................................66
APPENDIX D - GROUNDWATER CONTOUR PLAN .......................................................................67
APPENDIX E – PROPOSED WORKS OVERLAYING RE TYPES ONSITE ....................................68
APPENDIX F - CERTIFICATION OF SUITABLY QUALIFIED PERSON - FLORA ..........................69
APPENDIX G - JUSTIFICATION OF SUITABLY QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENCED PERSON -
FAUNA SURVEY...............................................................................................................................70
APPENDIX H – SURFACE WATER / GROUND WATER MONTORING AND FIELD
OBSERVATIONS ..............................................................................................................................71
APPENDIX I – FLORA SPECIES LIST .............................................................................................76
APPENDIX J – ENDANGERED RE 12.5.3 GROUND-TRUTHED EXTENT ....................................79
APPENDIX K - FAUNA SPECIES LIST ............................................................................................80
APPENDIX L – LOCATION OF RECENT KOALA ACTIVITY .........................................................82


Figures
FIGURE 1: Locality map ..................................................................................................................... 9
FIGURE 2: Survey area map ........................................................................................................... 10
FIGURE 3: Mapped vegetation communities occurring near Noosa Landfill ................................... 19
FIGURE 4: Protected Plants Flora Survey Trigger map .................................................................. 21
FIGURE 5: Wallum Frog Habitat Suitability Model ........................................................................... 25
FIGURE 6: Scribbly Gum woodland with Paperbark tea tree on lower slopes - RE12.5.3 .............. 27
FIGURE 7: Eucalypt and Melaleuca woodland - RE12.5.4 .............................................................. 28
FIGURE 8: Melaleuca quinquenervia open forest on alluvium - RE12.3.5 ..................................... 29
FIGURE 9: Closed, wet heath - RE12.3.13 ...................................................................................... 30
FIGURE 10: Singapore Daisy invading Melaleuca woodland from eastern edge of landfill. ........... 32
FIGURE 11: Singapore Daisy invading Scribbly Gum woodland north-east of borehole clearing .. 32
FIGURE 12: Fauna identified in survey area ................................................................................... 35
FIGURE 13: Wallum Froglet - Vulnerable ........................................................................................ 36
FIGURE 14: Swamp Crayfish - Endangered .................................................................................... 36
FIGURE 15: Location of EVNT fauna species and habitats ............................................................ 37
FIGURE 16: Breeding places and evidence of fauna habitation ...................................................... 46
FIGURE 17: Ponded water in high value wet heath - low pH and tannin stained ............................ 49
FIGURE 18: Drainage line on eastern boundary of landfill .............................................................. 50
FIGURE 19: Ponded water in central drainage line – red brown colour indicative of iron enrichment
.......................................................................................................................................................... 50
FIGURE 20: Southern stormwater outflow - surface runoff with green algae indicative of nutrient
enrichment ........................................................................................................................................ 51
FIGURE 21: Location of existing impacts ........................................................................................ 52
Tables

TABLE 1: Water quality assessment methods ………………………………………………………….15
TABLE 2: Weather conditions during field surveys …………………………………………………….15
TABLE 3: Monthly rainfall totals at Eumundi from November 2018 to April 2019 …………………..16
TABLE 4: Regional ecosystems mapped over survey site …………………………………………….18
TABLE 5: Listed species identified by desktop research (RVMM, WildNET, EPBC PMST) as
‘possible’, ‘likely’ or ‘known’ to occur within one kilometre of survey area ...…………………………20
TABLE 6: Habitat assessment and likelihood of occurrence for listed species.……….....................41




Noosa Landfill & Resource Recovery Centre – Fauna and Flora Assessment – Revision 3                                                                      4