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
                                                                                                     captured and filtered prior to entering
                                                                                                     the waterway. Refer to Information
                                                                                                     Request response for Items 31 – 33 by
                                                                                                     Saunders Havill Group for further detail.
S11   Rehabilitating Riparian Land           M11.1 Vegetation replanting, stormwater                 The waterway corridor will be retained in
      Where riparian land is not in its      management, access management and sediment              its current form with an additional 10m
      natural state, rehabilitation and      and erosion control actions are implemented             buffer proposed on the existing
      management occurs.                     through a management plan.                              vegetation boundary. Adjacent land uses
                                                                                                     to the waterway corridor will include
                                                                                                     soft treatments such as bioretention
                                                                                                     basins; a stormwater detention basin
                                                                                                     and landscaping with native species
                                                                                                     (refer to Stormwater Management Plan
                                                                                                     for further detail). The Ecological
                                                                                                     Assessment Report prepared for the site
                                                                                                     identified that the riparian corridor is
                                                                                                     highly degraded and heavily infested
                                                                                                     with weeds. The proposed works will
                                                                                                     enhance current values of the riparian
                                                                                                     corridor and the proposed 10m
                                                                                                     waterway buffer, by removing weed
                                                                                                     species, treating stormwater and
                                                                                                     vegetating degraded areas. Weed
                                                                                                     management will be undertaken
                                                                                                     throughout the corridor with a particular
                                                                                                     focus on removal of competitive species
                                                                                                     to aid natural regeneration. Where
                                                                                                     significant disturbance occurs, infill tube
                                                                                                     stock planting will be utilized to aid
                                                                                                     stabilization and native vegetation