Appendix B Code Compliance Statements · MCU22/0038

Noosa Business Centre – Lot 22 Medihub                                                                                               Noosa Plan 2006 dated June 2018

NATURAL RESOURCES OVERLAY CODE – TABLE 13.14 ACID SULFATE SOILS AREAS
                                                                                                 Compliance
 Specific Outcomes                                    Probable Solutions                                      Response
                                                                                                 ü/û/NA
 Effects of Works
 General                                              Partial Solution                                 ü      Compliant
 O25                                                  S25.1                                                   The proposed Commercial Business Type 1: Office &
 Works do not disturb acid sulfate soils or are       The disturbance of acid sulfate soils is                Commercial Business Type 2: Medical use will involve
 managed to avoid the release of acid or associated   avoided by—                                             two underground levels of car parking which exceeds
 metal contaminants.                                                                                          100m3 of excavation on land above 5m AHD but below
                                                       a) not excavating or otherwise                         20m AHD.
                                                          removing soil or sediment
                                                          identified as containing acid
                                                          sulfate soils;                                      Please refer to the attached Appendix C - Civil
                                                       b) not permanently or temporarily                      Engineering Report which addresses how the
                                                          extracting groundwater that                         disturbance of acid sulfate soils mitigates the release of
                                                          results in the aeration of                          acid or any other associated contaminants. Further, any
                                                          previously saturated acid sulfate                   potential disturbance of acid sulfate soils will be
                                                          soils; and                                          addressed during the operational works stage of the
                                                       c) not undertaking filling that results                development.
                                                          in actual acid sulfate soils being
                                                          moved below the watertable or
                                                          previously saturated acid sulfate
                                                          soils being aerated;
                                                      OR
                                                      S25.2
                                                      The disturbance of acid sulfate soils
                                                      avoids the release of acid or associated
                                                      metal contaminants by—
                                                       a) neutralising existing acidity and
                                                          preventing the generation of acid
                                                          and associated metal
                                                          contaminants; and
                                                       b) preventing the release of surface
                                                          or groundwater flows containing


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