Appendix E - Noosa Plan 2020 Assessment

8.2.1 ACID SULFATE SOILS OVERLAY CODE
Updated 04 March 2021

Noosa Plan, Version 1

Table 8.2.1.3 – Criteria for assessable development

Performance Outcomes             Acceptable Outcomes                      Response

Avoidance and management of ASS

PO1                              AO1.1                                    PO1 Complies

Development:                     The disturbance of ASS is                The development will ensure
                                 avoided by:                              that excavation and
  (a) does not disturb ASS; or                                            construction minimises
  (b) is managed to avoid or     (a) undertaking                          disturbance to ASS and where
      minimise the release of        an ASS investigation and             unavoidable will take
      acid and metal                 soil analysis according to           precautions to avoid or
      contaminants, where            the National Acid Sulfate            minimise the release of acid
      disturbance of ASS is          Soils Guidance;                      and metal contaminants.
      unavoidable.               (b) not excavating or otherwise
                                     removing soil or sediment
                                     containing ASS;
                                 (c) not permanently or
                                     temporarily extracting
                                     groundwater that results in
                                     the aeration of previously
                                     saturated ASS; and
                                 (d) not undertaking filling on
                                     land at or below 5 metres
                                     AHD that results in:-
                                     (i) actual ASS being
                                          moved below the water
                                          table; or
                                     (ii) previously
                                          saturated ASS being
                                          aerated.

                                 Editor's note—National Sampling and
                                 Identification Methods Guidelines is a
                                 reference to:

                                 (a)   National Acid Sulfate
                                       Soils Guidance: National acid
                                       sulfate soils sampling and
                                       identification methods manual,
                                       Department of Agriculture and

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