BR210522_SBSMP_Rev6

NOOSA PLANNING SCHEME – WATER QUALITY AND DRAINAGE CODE


             PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES                                 ACCEPTABLE OUTCOMES                                    COMMENTS



 Wastewater management and effluent disposal Table 9.4.8.3 Criteria for assessment (part)
 PO15                                                  AO15                                              N/A
 Development does not discharge wastewater             Wastewater (non-sewage) generated from
                                                                                                         The development is expected to be serviced
 unless it can be demonstrated to not                  the development is collected and                  by reticulated sewer
 compromise environmental values of waters             contained on-site, and is:
 and water quality objectives.
                                                                 a.   lawfully disposed to sewer; or
 Editor’s Note—Environmental values of                           b.   transferred off-site for
 waters and water quality objectives are                              treatment/disposal to an
 prescribed in Schedule 1 of the Environmental                        appropriately licenced facility;
 Protection (Water) Policy 2009.                                 c.   reused on-site in a closed-cycle
                                                                      irrigation scheme, industrial
                                                                      processes, washing or cleaning
                                                                      or other purpose; or
                                                                 d.   treated to meet the drinking
                                                                      water supply environmental
                                                                      values prior to release.

                                                       Editor’s Note—The Plumbing and
                                                       Drainage Act 2003 sets out requirements
                                                       for wastewater management.
 PO16                                                  AO16                                              N/A
 On-site effluent treatment and disposal systems are   An onsite effluent system and disposal area is:
 designed, constructed and managed to not                                                                The development is expected to be serviced
 compromise the environmental values of waters                   a.   not located on a slope greater     by reticulated sewer
 and water quality objectives.                                        than 1 in (10%);
                                                                 b.   not located at or below the 1%
                                                                      annual exceedance probability
                                                                      (AEP flood event);
                                                                 c.   not located within a riparian
                                                                      buffer area mapped on



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