Information Response

                                          Earthworks Code and the Water Quality
                                          and Drainage Code.

PO7                                       No      acceptable         outcome      Not applicable
Vegetation within 400 metres of           provided.
the full ponded water within
Lake Macdonald is retained.


PO8                                       AO8.1                                   Not applicable
Development on land adjacent              Development adjacent to a               No new lots or roads proposed.
to a waterway or wetland                  waterway or wetland provides
maintains appropriate extent of           that:
public access to waterways and              A. no new lots directly back
wetlands and minimises edge                     onto a riparian buffer
effects.                                        area; and
                                            B. new public roads are
                                               located between a riparian
                                               buffer area or riparian
                                               zone and the proposed
                                               development area.

PO9                                       AO9.1                                   Complies with AO9.1
Development ensures that the              Development does not impact             Refer Engineering Plans and
natural surface water and                 on the natural surface water or         Figure 1 below.
ground water hydrologic regimes           groundwater hydrologic regimes
of waterways, wetlands and                and this is facilitated by:
hydrologically-sensitive   plant            A. avoiding or minimising
communities are not adversely                   channelization, redirection
impacted.                                       or interruption of flow;
                                            B. avoiding         groundwater
Editor's Note—Groundwater dependent
ecosystems are identified on Queensland        extraction;
Government Wetland Info mapping.            C. maintaining groundwater
                                               recharge and discharge
                                               processes;
                                            D. maintaining        natural
                                               groundwater fluctuations;
                                            E. avoiding causing ingress
                                               of saline water into
                                               freshwater aquifers of
                                               wetlands; and
                                            F.   avoiding     contaminants
                                                 entering      groundwater
                                                 (e.g. from runoff, effluent
                                                 disposal).

PO10                                      AO10.1                                  Complies with AO10.1
Development      provides   for           Landscaping and rehabilitation          Refer to Landscape Concept
ecologically important areas to           complements      and     supports       Master   Plan.  All   mapped
be restored and enhanced                  ecologically important areas by:        waterways on the site are
through:                                    A. utilising    local    native       intended to be protected and



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