Ecological Assessment Report

Ecological Assessment Report v2                                                                       NCES REF: LEA2016-06
Lot 496 on MCH591 - 30 Pottery Street, Pomona



 Threatened Flora Species

 Species name                 EPBC Act            Habitat                                  Likelihood of Occurrence
                              Status                                                       within the Project Area
                                                  Most populations occur within 25         Low potential to occur
                                                  m of streams, on south or south-         due to lack of habitat and
                                                  east facing slopes or river terraces,    previous records.
                                                  with a few populations at higher
                                                  topographic positions away from
                                                  watercourses (Powell et al., 2005).
                                                  Triunia robusta occurs on well-
                                                  drained soil, either clayey sand,
                                                  loamy sand or loams, derived from
                                                  felsite substrate, alluvium or
                                                  arenite mudrock (Shapcott, 2002;
                                                  Powell et al., 2005).
 Xanthostemon                 Vulnerable          Occurs predominantly in riparian         Species or species’ habitat
 oppositifolius                                   communities on slightly acid clayey      unlikely to occur in the
 Penda, Southern                                  sands to sandy clays derived from        project area.
 Penda, Luya's                                    sedimentary and metasedimentary          No previous records within 2
 Hardwood                                         rocks. Associated vegetation             km of site.
                                                  includes notophyll vine forest,          Low potential to occur
                                                  simple notophyll mixed tall closed       due to lack of habitat and
                                                  forest with Araucaria cunninghamii       previous records.
                                                  var. cunninghamii (hoop pine)
                                                  emergents or in transitional
                                                  rainforest where the upper stratum
                                                  is composed mostly of tall
                                                  sclerophyll elements with rainforest
                                                  species restricted to a developing
                                                  understorey or mid-storey (DotE,
                                                  2016)

 Threatened Fauna Species

 Species name               EPBC Act            Habitat                                   Likelihood of Occurrence
                            Status                                                        within the Project Area
 Birds
 Anthochaera                Endangered          Mostly occur in dry box-ironbark          Species or species’ habitat
 phrygia                                        eucalypt woodland and dry                 occurs in the project area.
 regent honeyeater                              sclerophyll forest associations,          Previous records within 2km
                                                wherein they prefer the most fertile      of site.
                                                sites available, e.g. along creek         Moderate potential to occur
                                                flats, or in broad river valleys and      due to previous records in
                                                foothills (DSEWPC, 2012a).                the area.
 Botaurus                   Endangered          Occurs in or over water in tall reed      Species or species’ habitat
 poiciloptilus                                  beds, sedges, rushes, cumbungi,           unlikely to occur in the project
 Australasian bittern                           lignum, also in drains in tussocky        area.
                                                paddocks occasionally saltmarsh,          No previous records within 2
                                                and brackish wetlands (Pizzey and         km of site.
                                                Knight, 2007).                            Low potential to occur due
                                                                                          to lack of habitat and
                                                                                          previous records.
 Cyclopsitta                Endangered          Coxen's Fig-Parrot occurs in              Species or species’ habitat
 diophthalma coxeni                             rainforest habitats including             unlikely to occur in the project
 Coxen’s fig parrot                             subtropical rainforest, dry               area.
                                                rainforest, littoral and developing       No previous records within
                                                littoral rainforest, and vine forest      2km of site.
                                                (Coxen's Fig-Parrot Recovery              Low potential to occur due
                                                Team 2001; Holmes 1990;                   to lack of habitat and
                                                Templeton 1992).                          previous records.




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