RFI - Ecology Response

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                                                                               25 Pavilion St POMONA - RAL21/0017




29 October 2021

Noel Shipp
[email protected]
Dear Noel,
RE: Request for RFI Response to Issues 1-3 – For proposed subdivision at 25 Pavilion St
POMONA - Council Reference: RAL21/001).
As per your request please see below our response to Noosa Council RFI Issues 1-3 (Council
Reference: RAL21/0017) for the proposed subdivision at 25 Pavilion St POMONA.
Issues 1-3 stated within the Information Request are as follows:




The NC Biodiversity, Waterways, and Wetlands Overlay depicts a waterway within the centre of the
site. This mapping is considered to be incorrect on the following basis.
The Noosa Shire Planning Scheme defines a Waterway as; waterway is a river, creek or other
stream, lake or lagoon in which water flows permanently or intermittently, in a natural channel,
whether artificially modified or not or in an artificial channel that has changed the course of the
stream. A waterway includes instream islands, as well as constructed stormwater drainages with
surface water flows, but not piped water drains.
The Ecological Assessment Report prepared by NCES (August 2021) stated the following;
Council’s Biodiversity, Waterways, and Wetlands overlay mapping depicts a first order waterway in
proximity to the proposed Lot 6 building envelope. No formal waterway containing defined bed and/or
banks was observed in the location as mapped by Council. A small, engineered, mowed, grassy
swale was observed which would capture sheet flow from the eastern slope in prolonged rain events.
The swale would direct flows into the onsite dam. No formal spillway was observed on the dam wall
and no defined channel exiting the dam was observed, indicating that the majority of water captured
by the drainage swale would be expected to be retained within the dam.
The blue hatched line in Plate 1 & 2 depicts the condition of the mapped waterway. No woody
vegetation is present flanking the majority of the mapped waterway (precluding exotic slash pine
trees; Pinus elliottii, surrounding the dam).




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