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14. APP I. SPP Code - Water Quality
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Appendix 3 Achieved
P/S Performance solution
SPP Code: Water Quality N/A Not applicable
Performance outcomes Acceptable outcomes Response Comment
Plan to avoid/minimise new impacts
PO1 The development is planned AO1.1 A site stormwater quality management The proposal is supported by the inclusion of a
and designed considering the plan (SQMP) is prepared, and: Stormwater Management Plan, which is
land use constraints of the site for (a) Is consistent with any local area understood to be consistent with any relevant
achieving stormwater design stormwater management planning, Noosa Council standards and that which provides
objectives. and for achievable stormwater quality treatment
measures as per current best practice
(b) Provides for achievable stormwater
environmental managements.
quality treatment measures meeting
design objectives listed below in Table
A (construction phase) and Table B
(post construction phase), or current
best practice environmental
managements, reflecting land use
constraints, such as:
a. Erosive, dispersive, sodic and/or
saline soil types
b. Landscape features (including
landform)
c. Acid sulfate soils and
management of nutrients of
concern
d. Rainfall erosivity
Editor’s note: Local area stormwater management
planning may include Urban Stormwater Quality
Management Plans, or Catchment or waterway
management plans, Healthy Waters Management Plans,
Water Quality Improvement Plans, Natural Resource
Management Plans.
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Performance outcomes Acceptable outcomes Response Comment
PO2 Development does not AO2.1 A wastewater management plan NA The proposal will not be supported by a
discharge wastewater to a (WWMP) is prepared by a suitably qualified wastewater management plan given that it will
waterway or off site unless person and addresses: not relate to the discharge of aqueous waste. The
demonstrated to be best a. Wastewater type, and proposal is however supported by a Stormwater
practice environmental Management Plan which details appropriate
b. Climatic conditions, and
management for that site. stormwater quality treatment measures.
c. Water quality objectives (WQOs), and
d. Best-practice environmental
In regards to oily water discharge from the service
management, and
station component refuelling area, a suitably
qualified hydraulic consultant will be engaged at
the Building Works stage to design the fuel
dispensing area in accordance with AS1940.
AO2.2 The WWMP provides that wastewater is NA See above response.
managed in accordance with a waste
management hierarchy that:
a. Avoids wastewater discharges to
waterways, or
b. If wastewater discharge to waterways
cannot practicably be avoided,
minimises wastewater discharge to
waterways by re-use, recycling,
recovery and treatment for disposal to
sewer, surface water and groundwater
PO3 Any non-tidal artificial AO3.1 If the proposed development involves a NA The proposal is not related to a non-tidal artificial
waterway is located in a way that non-tidal artificial waterway: waterway.
is compatible with the land use a. Environmental values in downstream
constraints of the site for waterways are protected, and
protecting water environmental
b. Any groundwater recharge areas are
values in existing natural
not affected, and
waterways.
c. The location of the waterway
incorporates low lying areas of a
catchment connected to an existing
waterway, and
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Performance outcomes Acceptable outcomes Response Comment
d. Existing areas of ponded water are
included, and
AO3.2 Non-tidal artificial waterways are NA See above response.
located:
a. Outside natural wetlands and any
associated buffer areas, and
b. To minimise disturbing soils or sediments,
and
c. To avoid altering the natural hydrologic
regime in acid sulfate soil and nutrient
hazardous areas.
PO4 Any non-tidal artificial AO4.1 Where a non-tidal artificial waterway is NA The proposal is not related to a non-tidal artificial
waterway is located in a way that located adjacent to, or is connected to, a waterway.
is compatible with existing tidal tidal waterway by means of a weir, lock,
waterways. pumping system or similar:
a. There is sufficient flushing or a tidal
range of >0.3 m, or
b. Any tidal flow alteration does not
adversely impact on the tidal
waterway, or
c. There is no introduction of salt water
into freshwater environments.
Design to avoid/minimise new impacts
PO5 Stormwater does not AO5.1 Any non-tidal artificial waterway is NA The proposal is not related to a non-tidal artificial
discharge directly to a non-tidal designed and managed for any of the waterway.
artificial waterway without following end-use purposes:
treatment to manage stormwater a. Amenity including aesthetics,
quality management landscaping and recreation, or
b. Flood management, or
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Performance outcomes Acceptable outcomes Response Comment
c. Stormwater harvesting as part of an
integrated water cycle management
plan, or
d. Aquatic habitat, and
AO5.2 The end-use purpose of any non-tidal NA See above response.
artificial waterway is designed and operated in
a way that protects water environmental
values.
Construct to avoid/minimise new impacts
PO6 Construction activities for the AO6.1 An erosion and sediment control plan Construction phase water quality measures are
development avoid or minimise (ESCP) demonstrates that release of sediment- provided in the Stormwater Management Plan,
adverse impacts on stormwater laden stormwater is avoided for the nominated provided in support of the proposal. As part of
quality. design storm, and minimised when the this, an Erosion Hazard Assessment has been
nominated design storm is exceeded, by carried out which demonstrates that the site is
addressing design objectives listed below in ‘low’ risk.
Table A (construction phase) or local
equivalent, for:
During the construction phase of the
a. Drainage control, and development, an Erosion and Sediment Control
b. Erosion control, and Program will be employed throughout the site,
c. Sediment control, and prepared in compliance with the relevant Noosa
Council standards.
d. Water quality outcomes, and
AO6.2 Erosion and sediment control practices See above response.
(including any proprietary erosion and
sediment control products) are designed,
installed, constructed, operated, monitored
and maintained, and any other erosion and
sediment control practices are carried out in
accordance with local conditions and
appropriate recommendations from a suitably
qualified person, or
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Performance outcomes Acceptable outcomes Response Comment
AO6.3 The ESCP demonstrates how stormwater See above response.
quality will be managed in accordance with
an acceptable regional or local guideline so
that target contaminants are treated to a
design objective at least equivalent to
Acceptable Outcome AO6.1.
Operate to avoid/minimise new impacts
PO7 Operational activities for the AO7.1 Development incorporates stormwater The proposal has been designed and located to
development avoid or minimises flow control measures to achieve the design incorporate appropriate stormwater flow control
changes to waterway hydrology objectives set out below in and Table B (post measures. Refer to the Stormwater Management
from adverse impacts of altered construction phase). The operational phases Plan (provided as part of the application
stormwater quality and flow. for the development comply with design supporting material) for further details.
objectives in Table B (post construction phase),
or current best practice environmental
management, including management of
frequent flows, and peak flows.
PO8 Any treatment and disposal AO8.1 Implement the WWMP prepared in NA Refer to the response provided for AO2.1.
of waste water to a waterway accordance with AO2.1.
accounts for:
The applicable water
quality objectives for the
receiving waters, and
Adverse impacts on
ecosystem health or
receiving waters, and
In waters mapped as
being of high ecological
value, the adverse
impacts of such releases
and their offset.
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Performance outcomes Acceptable outcomes Response Comment
PO9 Wastewater discharge to a AO9.1 Wastewater discharge to waterways is NA The proposal will not comprise wastewater
waterway is managed in a way managed to avoid or minimize the release of discharge to waterways. Nonetheless, it will
that maintains ecological nutrients of concern so as to minimize the comprise stormwater quality treatment measures
processes, riparian vegetation, occurrence, frequency and intensity of coastal to maintain compliance with all relevant
waterway integrity, and algal blooms, and standards prior to legal discharge (Eumundi
downstream ecosystem health. Noosa Road road reserve, Lionel Donovan Drive
road reserve & the existing drainage easement
over Lot 31).
AO9.2 Development in coastal catchments NA The proposal is not located in a coastal
avoids or minimises and appropriately catchment, will appropriately manage soil
manages soil disturbance or altering natural disturbance and will not alter natural hydrology.
hydrology, and
AO9.3 Development in coastal catchments: NA See above response.
a. Avoids lowering groundwater levels
where potential or actual acid sulfate
soils are present, and
b. Manages wastewater so that:
I. The pH of any wastewater
discharged is maintained
between 6.5 and 8.5 to avoid
mobilisation of acid, iron,
aluminium, and metals, and
II. Holding times of neutralised
wastewaters ensures the
flocculation and removal of any
dissolved iron prior to release,
and
III. Visible iron floc is not present in
any discharge, and
IV. Precipitated iron floc is
contained and disposed of, and
V. Wastewater and precipitates
that cannot be contained and
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Performance outcomes Acceptable outcomes Response Comment
treated for discharge on site are
removed and disposed of
through trade waste or another
lawful method.
PO10 Any non-tidal artificial AO10.1 Any non-tidal artificial waterway is NA The proposal is not related to a non-tidal artificial
waterway is managed and designed, constructed and managed under waterway.
operated by suitably qualified the responsibility of a suitably qualified
persons to achieve water quality registered professional engineer, Queensland
objectives in natural waterways. (RPEQ) with specific experience in establishing
and managing artificial waterways, and
AO10.2 Monitoring and maintenance NA See above response.
programs adaptively manage water quality in
any non-tidal artificial waterway to achieve
relevant water-quality objectives downstream
of the waterway, and
AO10.3 Aquatic weeds are managed in any NA Refer response to AO10.1 above.
non-tidal artificial waterway to achieve a low
percentage of coverage of the water surface
area (less than 10%). Pests and vectors (such as
mosquitoes) are managed through avoiding
stagnant water areas, providing for native fish
predators, and any other best practices for
monitoring and treating pests, and
AO10.4 Any non-tidal artificial waterway is NA Refer response to AO10.1 above.
managed and operated by a responsible
entity under agreement for the life of the
waterway. The responsible entity is to
implement a deed of agreement for the
management and operation of the waterway
that:
a. Identifies the waterway, and
b. States a period of responsibility for the
entity, and
c. States a process for any transfer of
responsibility for the waterway, and
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Performance outcomes Acceptable outcomes Response Comment
d. States required actions under the
agreement for monitoring the water
quality of the waterway and receiving
waters, and
e. States required actions under the
agreement for maintaining the
waterway to achieve the outcomes of
this code and any relevant conditions
of a development approval, and
f. Identifies funding sources for the
above, including bonds, infrastructure
charges or levies.
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