2015-06-23 I&S Agenda - Item 5 - Local Disaster Recovery Plan - Attachment 2

                              Noosa Local Disaster Recovery Plan 2015/2016

26.13 Communicate and consult
To attain maximum effect it is important to ensure engagement by all aspects of community
and all levels of government, and a broad range of subject matter expertise as the risk
management process or the recovery planning proceeds.

The natural environment is a highly complex area to assess and engaging the appropriate
expertise is essential. In Australia management and governance of the natural environment
is conducted by a mix of public and private and non-government organisational entities, with
varying standards and regulations. Engagement with these is critical to any natural
environment recovery activity.

Appendix 27.17 graphically depicts the above process.

Table 10 gives examples of options or strategies for treating risk in the natural environment
(under the components of air, water, land and soil, and plants and animals).

           Air                              Water                Land and soil        Plants and
                                                                                      animals
Monitor/   •     emissions (source) air     •   drinking water   •   soil stability   •   establish
observe          monitoring program             sampling             and erosion          survival of
           •     ambient (community)            program              potential            and current
                 air monitoring             •   recreational         surveys              threats to
                 program                        water body       •   soil                 important
           •     personal (recovery             sampling             contamination        species
                 Worker) air monitoring     •   natural water        assessments      •   flora/fauna
                 program                        body                 and                  surveys
           •     deposition (fall out)          sampling             environmental
                 monitoring program             program              and health
                                                                     risk
                                                                     assessments
                                                                 •   topsoil
                                                                     capability for
                                                                     regeneration
                                                                     of flora
Prevent/   •     aerial incendiary          •   keep people                           •   implement
avoid            practices                      out of                                    hygiene
           •     whether or not to put          contaminated                              protocols to
                 hazardous materials            waterways                                 prevent
                 fire out—let it burn out   •   remove oils,                              spread of
                 and get the oxygen             fuels etc from                            disease to
                 out or stop it burning         wrecked                                   /within the
                 so it doesn’t                  vehicles etc                              natural
                 contaminate the air        •   recycling of                              environment
           •     extinguish fires               wastes to                             •   keep livestock
           •     there may be                   minimise                                  out of
                 occasions where the            discharges or                             sensitive
                 decision is made that      •   impacts on                                areas by
                 the benefits gained by         water                                     fencing (to
                 allowing the fire to           resources                                 avoid grazing
                 burn outweigh the                                                        impact,
                 smoke pollution.                                                         improve
                 Assessment should                                                        recovery of
                 always be based on                                                       plants)
                 the fire rather than the                                             •   hygiene
                 smoke pollution                                                          protocols
           •     in planning post fire                                                •   controlling
                 recovery of an                                                           where
                 ecosystem sufficient                                                     machinery
                 time for recovery must                                                   goes so it
                 be given before the                                                      doesn’t
                 next control burn is                                                     impact on
                 implemented.                                                             certain
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