Concurrence & Advice Agency Response - MCU - Lot: 2 RP: 865533 2 Halse Lane, Noosa Heads - Notice from DERM - Concurrence Agency Response

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Development should ensure the following outcomes:

e Maintain ecological values of the wetland. There is no loss of wetland habitat and adverse impacts on
the functioning and integrity of a wetland from development are avoided. Where a wetland management
area is also mapped as a ‘significant coastal wetland’ under the South-east Queensland Regional Coastal
Management Plan 2006 it should also be assessed under policy 2.8.1, Areas of state significance (natural

" resources). An Implementation Guideline should be consulted:
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« If the wetland contains mapped or likely to be present threatened species habitat, then the applicant is to
provide a report prepared and certified by an appropriately qualified professional demonstrating to the
satisfaction of the assessment manager that there will be no adverse impacts on the ecological values and
functioning of the wetland. If loss to the wetland or adverse impacts are unavoidable, loss and impacts are
minimised and offsets are provided in order to achieve an environmental outcome equal or better than the @
values lost.

e Maintain wetland water quality. The water quality of any waters in and linked to the wetland is maintained
and managed to protect the environmental values of the wetland, and to ensure that the water quality
objectives listed under Schedule 1 of the Environmental Protection (Water) Policy 2009 are achieved.

« Maintain wetland water regime. The existing water regime (including surface and groundwater) within and
linked to a wetland is maintained and managed to protect existing natural hydrological processes within the
wetland ecosystem. This includes safeguarding natural fluctuations in size and location of the wetland, and
retaining and allowing for regeneration of vegetation.

To ensure that the proposed development is able to meet the above outcomes, the Assessment Manager is.
encouraged to consider the requirement for a buffer area between any proposed works and the wetland. A
wetland buffer has two components:

* asupport area adjacent to the wetland that maintains and supports the environmental values of the
wetland; ,

* aseparation area around the support area that protects the wetland from external threats such as e@
sediment and nutrient discharge from surrounding landuse.

The Assessment Manager should ensure that there is a sufficient buffer distance between any proposed works

, and the wetland management area in order to maintain the ecological functioning and integrity of the wetland.
Buffer distances should be maximised in order to maintain existing biodiversity values and habitat connectivity
and to minimise edge effects.

The applicant is to provide a report prepared and certified by a biologist or equivalent that demonstrates to the
satisfaction of the assessment manager that there are no adverse impacts on the ecological values and
functioning of the area of significance.

Revegetation of the buffer is recommended using locally native species that reflect the pre-clearing regional
ecosystem, with preference given to endemic species. Plants should be of local provenance where possible. A
Rehabilitation/ Revegetation Management Plan should stipulate a weed management strategy including weed
control and plant maintenance over a minimum one year period. Conditioning of any approval with building or
development envelope(s) may also be a useful way to give formal effect to any required buffer area.

The Assessment Manager should consider requiring applicants to provide a Stormwater Management Plan to
demonstrate how stormwater, sediment and other run-off from the site (associated with the construction and

 

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