Module 10 · OPW16/0098

 Performance outcomes                             Acceptable outcomes                                             Response    Comment
 PO4 Development avoids the release of            AO4.1 Development that involves the manufacture or              N/A
 hazardous materials as a result of a             storage of hazardous materials in bulk are designed to:
 natural hazard event.                            (1) prevent the intrusion of waters from a defined storm
 Editor’s note: Applications should:                   tide event into structures or facilities containing the
                                                       hazardous materials, or
 (1)   assess the risk of storm tide inundation
                                                  (2) ensure hazardous materials remain secured despite
       releasing or otherwise exposing
       hazardous materials, including                  inundation, including secure from the effects of
       appropriate emergency planning and              hydrodynamic forcing associated with wave action or
       contingency measures.                           flowing water.
 (2)   applications are to be supported by a
       report certified by a Registered
       Professional Engineer of Queensland
       (RPEQ) that demonstrates this
       performance outcome will be achieved.
  PO5 Natural processes and the                   AO5.1 Development in an erosion prone area within the                      1. No removal or damage to vegetation.
 protective function of landforms and             coastal management district:                                                2. No decrease to foreshore sediment volumes. Associated
 vegetation are maintained in coastal             (1) maintains vegetation on coastal landforms where its                     nourishment (if undertaken) would increase sediment
 hazard areas.                                        removal or damage may:                                                  volumes.
                                                        (a) destablise the area and increase the potential
                                                                                                                              3. Erosion control structures have proven necessary in this
                                                            for erosion, or
                                                                                                                              location as historic nourishment works have proven short-
                                                        (b) interrupt natural sediment trapping processes or                  lived and high-maintenance.
                                                            dune or land building processes
                                                                                                                              4. Given the low-crested nature of the proposed works, the
                                                  (2) maintains sediment volumes of dunes and near-shore
                                                      coastal landforms, or where a reduction in sediment                     potential trapping of longshore transport by the groyne is
                                                      volumes cannot be avoided, increased risks to                           reduced. As separate approvals are in place to allow
                                                      development from coastal erosion are mitigated by                       nourishment to be placed between the groynes, groynes can
                                                      location, design, construction and operating                            also be artificially “filled” to further reduce short-term impacts
                                                      standards                                                               associated with initial natural trapping and re-alignment. In
                                                                                                                              the event of significant observed negative impacts not offset
                                                  (3) minimises the need for erosion control structures or
                                                                                                                              by nourishment, the trial structure can easily be removed.
                                                      riverbank hardening through location, design and
                                                      construction standards                                                  5. The development is an erosion control structure.
                                                  (4) maintains physical coastal processes outside the                        6. Adjacent areas of foreshore upstream have been
                                                      development footprint for the development, including                    hardened using rock and are not prone to erosion. Adjacent
                                                      longshore transport of sediment along the coast                         areas of foreshore downstream are protected by a
                                                  (5) reduces the risk of shoreline erosion for areas                         temporary sand-filled geotextile container seawall.
                                                      adjacent to the development footprint unless the
                                                      development is an erosion control structure
                                                  (6) reduces the risk of shoreline erosion for areas
                                                      adjacent to the development footprint to the
                                                      maximum extent feasible in the case of erosion
                                                      control structures.
                                                  AND



State development assessment provisions                                          Module 10 — Coastal protection          10.1 Tidal works, or development in a coastal management district state code
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