2018-04-10 S&O Agenda - Attachment 1 to Item 4 - Local Disaster Recovery Subplan

            Air                              Water                Land and soil        Plants and
                                                                                       animals
 Monitor/   •     emissions (source) air     •   drinking water   •   soil stability   •   establish
 observe          monitoring program             sampling             and erosion          survival of
            •     ambient (community)            program              potential            and current
                  air monitoring             •   recreational         surveys              threats to
                  program                        water body       •   soil                 important
            •     personal (recovery             sampling             contamination        species
                  Worker) air monitoring     •   natural water        assessments      •   flora/fauna
                  program                        body                 and                  surveys
            •     deposition (fall out)          sampling             environmental
                  monitoring program             program              and health
                                                                      risk
                                                                      assessments
                                                                  •   topsoil
                                                                      capability for
                                                                      regeneration
                                                                      of flora
 Prevent/   •     aerial incendiary          •   keep people                           •   implement
 avoid            practices                      out of                                    hygiene
            •     whether or not to put          contaminated                              protocols to
                  hazardous materials            waterways                                 prevent
                  fire out—let it burn out   •   remove oils,                              spread of
                  and get the oxygen             fuels etc from                            disease to
                  out or stop it burning         wrecked                                   /within the
                  so it doesn’t                  vehicles etc                              natural
                  contaminate the air        •   recycling of                              environment
            •     extinguish fires               wastes to                             •   keep livestock
            •     there may be                   minimise                                  out of
                  occasions where the            discharges or                             sensitive
                  decision is made that      •   impacts on                                areas by
                  the benefits gained by         water                                     fencing (to
                  allowing the fire to           resources                                 avoid grazing
                  burn outweigh the                                                        impact,
                  smoke pollution.                                                         improve
                  Assessment should                                                        recovery of
                  always be based on                                                       plants)
                  the fire rather than the                                             •   hygiene
                  smoke pollution                                                          protocols
            •     in planning post fire                                                •   controlling
                  recovery of an                                                           where
                  ecosystem sufficient                                                     machinery
                  time for recovery must                                                   goes so it
                  be given before the                                                      doesn’t
                  next control burn is                                                     impact on
                  implemented.                                                             certain
                  Frequent fire too often                                                  /threatened
                  can reduce floral                                                        species
                  biodiversity, such as                                                •   replacement
                  in dry sclerophyll                                                       of nesting
                  eucalypt or heathland.                                                   boxes where
                  Refer to SEQ fire and                                                    they are a
                  biodiversity guidelines                                                  part of a
            •     prevent dust lift off by                                                 monitoring or
                  stabilising land/use of                                                  research
                  fencing, mulching etc                                                    program
            •     manage wastes to                                                     •   supporting the
                  prevent emissions                                                        welfare of fire-
            •     manage pesticide                                                         affected
                  applications to                                                          wildlife
                  prevent spray drift




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