Biodiversity Overlay Review

      species and
      replacing them with           Editor's Note—Wetland areas are
      local native species.         identified on the Queensland
                                    Wetland Program mapping

                                    Editor's Note—Any clearing of
                                    vegetation also needs to meet the
                                    outcomes of the Earthworks Code
                                    and the Water Quality and
                                    Drainage Code.
PO7
Vegetation within 400 metres of     No acceptable outcome provided.      Not Applicable
the full ponded water within Lake
Macdonald is retained.
 PO8                                AO8.1
Development on land adjacent to a   Development adjacent to a            The development will enhance
waterway or wetland                 waterway or wetland provides that:   and protect wetland and riparian
maintains appropriate extent of     (a)    no new lots directly          values through the
public access to waterways and                                           implementation of a habitat
                                           back onto a riparian
wetlands and minimises edge                                              restoration program over
                                           buffer area; and
effects.                                                                 previously farmed crop lands and
                                    (b)    new public roads              these values will be protected in
                                           are located between           perpetuity by application of
                                           a riparian buffer             environmental covenants.
                                           area or riparian
                                           zone and the                  Generally complies as described
                                           proposed                      in the report.
                                           development area.
PO9                                 AO9.1
Development ensures that the        Development does not                 The development will repair,
natural surface water and ground    impact on the natural surface        restore and protect, in perpetuity,
                                                                         waterway and wetland values by
water hydrologic regimes of         water orgroundwater
                                                                         providing rehabilitated recharge
waterways, wetlands and             hydrologic regimes and this          areas, improved ecosystem
hydrologically­sensitive plant      is facilitated by:                   function, habitat restoration of
communities are not adversely       (a)    avoiding or                   aquatic and riparian areas and
impacted.                                  minimising                    provide additional polishing and
                                           channelization,               cleaning of nutrients entering the
Editor's Note—Groundwater                                                waterway systems.
                                           redirection or
dependent ecosystems are                   interruption of flow;
identified on Queensland
Government Wetland Info             (b)    avoiding groundwater          Suitable and relevant conditions
mapping.                                   extraction;                   can be applied to ensure these
                                                                         outcomes.
                                    (c)    maintaining
                                           groundwater                   Complies as described in the
                                           recharge and                  report.
                                           discharge
                                           processes;
                                    (d)    maintaining natural
                                           groundwater fluctuations;
                                    (e)    avoiding causing
                                           ingress of saline water
                                           into freshwateraquifers
                                           of wetlands; and
                                    (f)    avoiding contaminants
                                           entering groundwater
                                           (e.g. fromrunof, effluent
                                           disposal).
PO10                                AO10.1
Development provides for            Landscaping and rehabilitation       The development will repair,