MCU14/0056 Response to SARA - Consulting Report

  Corner Myall Street & Ferrells Road Cooroy, QLD 4563
                                SEQwater Development Guidelines
        Development Guidelines for Water Quality Management in Drinking Water Catchments


Specific Outcome                                  Measures                                 Comment

                            b) On land that is not susceptible to salinisation,    .
                            unless appropriate soil amelioration with organic
                            matter, gypsum or lime is conducted;

                            c) Located where the area has a good aspect for
                            enhanced exposure to sunlight and prevailing
                            breezes;

                            d) On land that is free of, or not susceptible to,
                            depressions where runoff may pond on the
                            application area;

                            e) On/in soils with permeability between
                            0.06m/day and 3.0 m/day;

                            f) On land that does not contain rock outcrops,
                            faults, areas underlain by fractured rock, coarse
                            alluvium or similar which may short-circuit
                            wastewater to groundwater;

                            g) On land where the base of the land application
                            field is at least 2 metres above the seasonal high
                            water table/bedrock (whichever is the less vertical
                            distance below the base of the application area);
                            and