Amended Ecological Assessment Report

                                                                                                                                       Ecological Assessment Letter




               Performance Outcomes                                          Acceptable Outcomes                                          Compliance
                                                               AO8.1
PO8     Development       on     land     adjacent      to     Development adjacent to a waterway or wetland provides that:     Not applicable – the development
        a waterway or wetland maintains appropriate extent                                                                      footprint is not adjacent to a
        of public access to waterways and wetlands and                                                                          waterway or wetland
                                                                        1.   no new lots directly back onto a riparian buffer
        minimises edge effects.
                                                                             area; and
                                                                        2.   new public roads are located between a riparian
                                                                             buffer area or riparian zone and the proposed
                                                                             development area.
Surface and ground water hydrology
                                                               AO9.1
PO9     Development ensures that the natural surface water     Development does not impact on the natural surface water or      Complies with PO9
        and ground water hydrologic regimes of waterways,      groundwater hydrologic regimes and this is facilitated by:
        wetlands and hydrologically-sensitive plant                                                                             The proposed dwelling will not
        communities are not adversely impacted.                                                                                 impact upon that the natural surface
                                                                        1.   avoiding or minimising channelization,             water and ground water hydrologic
        Editor's Note—Groundwater dependent ecosystems are                   redirection or interruption of flow;               regimes of waterways, wetlands
        identified on Queensland Government Wetland Info                2.   avoiding groundwater extraction;                   and hydrologically-sensitive plant
        mapping.                                                        3.   maintaining groundwater recharge and               communities.       The    rainforest
                                                                             discharge processes;                               understorey vegetation in this
                                                                        4.   maintaining natural groundwater fluctuations;      location would be well suited to the
                                                                        5.   avoiding causing ingress of saline water into      additional moisture that would be
                                                                             freshwater aquifers of wetlands; and               released in this area.
                                                                        6.   avoiding contaminants entering groundwater
                                                                             (e.g. from runoff, effluent disposal).

Rehabilitation of ecologically important areas

        Development provides for ecologically important        AO10.1
PO10                                                                                                                            Complies with PO10
        areas to be restored and enhanced through:             Landscaping and rehabilitation complements and
                                                               supports ecologically important areas by:                        The proposal includes rehabilitation
                  1.   designing landscaped areas to                                                                            of existing degraded areas on the
                       complement and enhance                           1.   utilising local native species;                    site. A rehabilitation plan has been
                       existing vegetation and ecological               2.   utilising suitable plant species identified        included as part of the ecological
                       linkages;                                             in PSP2 Landscaping;                               assessment report.
                  2.   removing species likely to displace              3.   restoring degraded ecosystems to achieve a
                       native flora species or degrade fauna                 functional ecosystem state that requires
                       habitat;                                              minimal human intervention;
                  3.   replanting and rehabilitating
                       degraded habitat;




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