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                Response column key:
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                                                                                                                               P/S Performance solution
Table 5 Element 2: Riparian Land Management Specific Outcomes and Measures                                                     NA Not Applicable


                 Specific Outcome                                   Measures                                           Comment

 S10   Riparian Land Management                M10.1 The high or outer bank is defined by survey.      Riparian land is maintained by the
       Riparian land is maintained in its                                                              development in its natural state, on
                                               M10.2 No clearing or removal of vegetation or           either side of the outer bank. No further
       natural state on each side of the
                                               other material occurs in a watercourse.                 encroachment or clearing of riparian
       high or outer bank to maintain:
       a) Bank stability by protecting         M10.3 The extent to which riparian land from each       vegetation is proposed by the
       against bank erosion;                   high or outer bank on either side of a watercourse      development. Survey of the site
                                               is maintained in its natural state is for a width of:   identifies that the existing riparian
       b) Water quality by filtering
                                                                                                       vegetation corridor is on average 20m in
       sediments, nutrients and                a) 100 metres to a lake or wetland;                     width from the high bank, with an
       other pollutants;                                                                               additional 10m buffer from the existing
                                               b) 50 metres to a watercourse with a stream order
       c) Aquatic habitat; and                                                                         vegetation boundary proposed by the
                                               5 or greater;
       d) Terrestrial habitat.                                                                         development. This will result in a total
                                               c) 25 metres to a watercourse with a stream order       average 30m buffer from the high bank
                                               3 or 4; and                                             of the mapped stream order 1
                                                                                                       watercourse which exceeds the
                                               d) 10 metres to a watercourse with a stream order       recommended setback of 10m in the
                                               1 or 2.                                                 Regional Vegetation Management Code:
                                                                                                       Southeast Queensland Bioregion. This
                                               Note these widths are consistent with the Regional
                                               Vegetation Management Code: Southeast                   30m buffer is considered safeguard
                                               Queensland Bioregion as provided by the former          impacts to bank stability and water
                                               Department of Natural Resources and Water, 20           quality. Soft treatments including
                                               November 2006                                           bioretention basins, a storm water
                                                                                                       detention basin and landscaping with
                                                                                                       native species are proposed adjacent to
                                                                                                       the protected waterway corridor to
                                                                                                       minimise edge effects from the
                                                                                                       development and allow runoff to be