RFI - Appendix 6 - Ground Water Response · MCU19/0117

Groundwater Dependant Ecology Preliminary Impact Assessment v1                         NCES REF: J000538
90 Beach Road, Noosa North Shore




    •    21 terrestrial vascular plant species.
In addition to several ‘special least concern’ species, the following conservation significant flora
and fauna species listed under the NC Act 1992 and or the EPBC Act 1999 have been recorded
within the 2km search extent:
Flora
    •    Habenaria harroldii – listed as ‘endangered’ under the NC Act.
Fauna
    •    Litoria freycineti (wallum rocketfrog) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act;
    •    Crinia tinnula (wallum froglet) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act;
    •    Hirundapus caudacutus (white-throated needletail) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the EPBC
         Act;
    •    Calyptorhynchus lathami lathami (glossy black-cockatoo (eastern)) – listed as ‘vulnerable’
         under the NC Act;
    •    Numenius madagascariensis (eastern curlew) – listed as ‘endangered’ under the NC Act
         and ‘critically endangered’ under the EPBC Act;
    •    Limosa Lapponica baueri (Western Alaskan bar-tailed godwit) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under
         the NC Act and EPBC Act;
    •    Tenuibranchiurus glypticus (swamp crayfish) – listed as ‘endangered’ under the NC Act;
    •    Phascolarctos cinereus (koala) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act and EPBC Act;
         and;
    •    Pteropus poliocephalus (grey headed flying-fox) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the EPBC
         Act.
The site is bordered to the east and south by wetlands and therefore is anticipated to provide
foraging and dispersal opportunities for amphibian species including the previously recorded
conservation significant species Crinia tinnula (wallum froglet) and Litoria freycineti (wallum
rocketfrog). The wetland may also provide suitable habitat for the previously recorded Pezoporus
wallicus wallicus (ground parrot) and Tenuibranchiurus glypticus (swamp crayfish).
3.4.3    Matters of State Environmental Significance
The Department of Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning’s State Planning Policy (SPP)
Interactive Mapping System indicates that the site is host to the following Matters of State
Environmental Significance (refer to Plate 4):
    •    Wildlife habitat;
    •    Regulated vegetation (wetland); and
    •    Regulated vegetation (essential habitat – 860 (Phascolarctos cinereus), 606 (Litoria
         freycineti), 593 (.) 1171 (Calyptorhynchus lathami) and 33603 (Tenuibranchiurus
         Glypticus) (Source: Essential Habitat Map Lot 21 NPW1150)




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