2021-01-18 GC - Item 3 - Attachment 1 - Coastal Hazards Adaptation Plan for Community Consultation

Appendix 4: Noosa Shire Council – Coastal Hazards Risk Assessment Consequence Criteria
                                     Community                                                                                                Council
  Consequence                                                                         Environment
                            Social                 Economic                                                                Economic                       Other
  Catastrophic     Widespread permanent        Widespread repair      Significant environmental impact with long        Recurrent             Extensive impact on assets
                   impact to community’s       needed to              term effects. Examples include:                   reduction in          requiring a significant
                   services wellbeing, or      damaged                • Serious environmental harm                      Council budget of     replacement or
                   culture (e.g. >50% of       properties across         (irreversible, high impact, widespread,        >1.6M or >5%          reconstruction effort. Total
                   community affected) or      the Noosa region,         cases > $50,000 damage).                       recurrent             loss of capability.
                   popular activity/use        with cost to repair                                                      reduction in          One or more major industries
                                                                      • Immediate containment required,
                   disrupted permanently       damage to                                                                branch budget         (e.g. tourism, agriculture,
                                                                         extensive clean up, extensive or
                   e.g. foreshore parkland     individual                                                                                     education, construction,
                                                                         ongoing remediation needed.
                   closed                      properties equal (or                                                                           manufacturing, retail or
                                               almost equal) to the   • Major impact to a protected species or
                                                                                                                                              fishing) within Noosa region
                                               property value.           habitat greatly contributing to or causing
                                                                                                                                              threatened.
                                                                         localised extinction risk in the Noosa
                                                                         area, requiring long term recovery                                   A large number of complaints
                                                                         efforts (>40% loss of an ecosystem type,                             resulting in negative attention
                                                                         >40% loss of a species, locally)                                     from the public due to action
                                                                                                                                              of branch.
  Major            Major permanent or          Major repairs          Significant medium to long term impact on         Recurrent             Major impact on assets
                   widespread medium           needed to              natural or built environment.                     reduction in          requiring a programmed
                   term (somewhat              damaged                Examples include:                                 Council budget of     repair/replacement response.
                   reversible) disruption to   properties within a                                                      $0.5M to $1M or       A major industry or whole
                   community’s services,       section of the         •   Material environmental harm (significant      $1m to $2M one
                                                                          effect and extent, causes $20,001 to                                sector of Noosa economy put
                   wellbeing, or culture       community, with                                                          off loss or 3-5% of   at risk
                   (e.g. up to 50% of          cost to repair             $50,000 damage).                              recurrent
                                                                          Immediate containment required, large                               Potential for a large number
                   community affected or       damage to              •                                                 reduction in
                                                                          clean up, significant remediation                                   of complaints resulting in
                   popular activity/use        individual                                                               branch budget.
                                                                          required.                                                           negative attention from the
                   disrupted for up to a       properties greater
                                                                                                                                              public.
                   year.                       than 50% of the        •   Serious impact to a protected species or
                                               property value.            habitat significantly contributing to local
                                                                          shire extinction pressures, requiring
                                                                          medium to long term recovery efforts (5-
                                                                          40% loss of an ecosystem type, 5-40%
                                                                          loss of a species, locally).
  Moderate         Minor long term or major    Some repairs           Medium term effects on environment from           Recurrent             Some impacts on assets
                   short term (mostly          needed to a            single incident. Examples include:                reduction in          damaged with programmed
                   reversible) disruption to   number of                                                                Council budget of

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