14. APP I. SPP Code - Water Quality

 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


SPP Code 3: Water Quality                                      14124 – Empirica Developments Pty Ltd                                                     Page 6
                                                     139 Eumundi Noosa Road & 30 Lionel Donovan Drive, Noosaville