Notice of Appeal_(Sealed)_1Dec2015 (PAE00394436-004)

permeability of soils underlying the proposed location for the media filtration system
exceed the proposed permeability of the filter media treatment system.

c. Include an Operational Phase Water Quality Monitoring Plan, prepared in accordance
with the Environmental Protection (Water) Policy 2009 Monitoring and Sampling
Manual. The Operational Phase Water Quality Monitoring Plan must be sufficient to
demonstrate that a flood event does not cause the release of fertiliser, prescribed
water contaminants, or other nutrient laden waters from the operation of the
Greenhouse into surrounding waterways. Monitoring methods must not put any
lives at risk during a flood event.

The amendments must be incorporated into an amended Stormwater Management
Plan and submitted to Council prior to the issue of an Operational Works approval.

23) Condition 16 should be amended.

a)

b)

)

d)

e)

 

the condition is not reasonable or relevant and is an unreasonable imposition on the
development as a consequence of the development.

the condition should be amended to:

16. The use must be undertaken in accordance with the Stormwater Management Plan
Rev a, by O2 Environmental and dated 26/6/2015 (the SMP), except for the
requirement for water quality treatment from the roof area of the greenhouse.

The consequences of the development do not warrant the removal of the infiltration
basin out of the riparian buffer area.

PARTICULARS

(i) it has been excavated in an area that was cultivated for the growing of grass and
the removal of turf for sale from the previous use as a turf farm.

(ii) it is constructed outside the drip line of any riparian vegetation.

(iii) it did not require the removal of any native vegetation.

(iv) it is within the mapped riparian buffer area on the Biodiversity (Riparian Buffer &
Environmental Protection) maps.

The consequences of the development do not warrant the construction of the filter
media basin for water quality treatment.

PARTICULARS

(i) The hydroponic irrigation system is a closed system.

(ii) As the system is located in a greenhouse rainfall and overland flows cannot
convey nutrients to the receiving watercourse under normal conditions.

(iii) In a significant rainfall event the potential for harm is minimal.

(iv) The sediment and nutrient loads exiting the site will reduce considerably as a
result of the proposed changes in land use.

(v) The SMP fails to recognise that the nutrient deposition by airborne contamination
on the roof of the greenhouse is the same amount as would be deposited on the
ground without the greenhouse.

(vi) The filter media basin is designed to strip those nutrients before they enter the
catchment.

Paragraphs c. and d. of proposed condition 16 lack finality.

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