MCU14/0056 Response to SARA - Consulting Report

                           Cnr Myall Street & Ferrells Road Coorroy, QLD 4563
                                           State Planning Policy December 2013 - Healthy Waters (DERM)
                                              Performance Outcome Criteria and Acceptable Outcomes


               Performance outcomes                               Acceptable outcomes                                      Solution
     in waters mapped as being of high
      ecological value, the adverse impacts of
      such releases and their offset.

9   PO9                                              AO9.1                                               SO9.1
    Wastewater discharge to a non-tidal artificial   Wastewater discharge to non-tidal artificial        Not applicable as a waterway is not proposed
    waterway is managed in a way that maintains      waterways is managed to avoid or minimise           for this development.
    ecological processes, riparian vegetation,       the release of nutrients of concern so as to
    waterway integrity, and downstream               minimise the occurrence, frequency and
    ecosystem health.                                intensity of coastal algal blooms, and
                                                     AO9.2
                                                     Development in coastal catchments avoids or
                                                     minimises and appropriately manages soil
                                                     disturbance or altering natural hydrology, and
                                                     Editor’s note: Compliance with this outcome
                                                     may be demonstrated by following the
                                                     management advice in the guideline:
                                                     Implementing Policies and Plans for Managing
                                                     Nutrients of Concern for Coastal Algal Blooms
                                                     in Queensland by the Department of
                                                     Environment and Heritage Protection.
                                                     AO9.3
                                                     Development in coastal catchments:
                                                     a. avoids lowering groundwater levels where
                                                     potential or actual acid sulfate soils are
                                                     present, and