Appendix C - Ecological Assessment Report

     e) maintaining stream integrity and
        bank stability by minimising bank
        erosion and slumping;                 AO6.3
     f) maintaining water quality through     Recreational facilities (e.g. playgrounds, pergolas,
        filtering sediments, nutrients and    barbeques) are setback a minimum of 10 metres from the      AO6.3
        other pollutants; and                 top of the bank of a waterway.                              N/A. No public recreational facilities are proposed.
     g) removing pest species and
        replacing them with local native      Editor’s Note—Setbacks to waterways for certain uses and
        species.                              works are also specified in the relevant codes.

                                              Editor's Note—Wetland areas are 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                                          No acceptable outcome provided.                             N/A
 Vegetation within 400 metres of the full
 ponded water within Lake Macdonald is
 retained.
 PO8                                          AO8.1                                                       N/A
 Development on land adjacent to a            Development adjacent to a waterway or wetland provides
 waterway or wetland maintains appropriate    that:
 extent of public access to waterways and         a) no new lots directly back onto a riparian buffer
 wetlands and minimises edge effects.                area; and
                                                  b) new public roads are located between a riparian
                                                     buffer area or riparian zone and the proposed
                                                     development area.
 Surface and ground water hydrology
 PO9                                          AO9.1                                                       N/A - The development is not proposing activities
 Development ensures that the natural         Development does not impact on the natural surface water    which are likely to affect natural surface water or
 surface water and ground water hydrologic    or groundwater hydrologic regimes and this is facilitated   groundwater hydrologic regimes.
 regimes of waterways, wetlands and           by:
 hydrologically-sensitive plant communities       a) avoiding or minimising channelization, redirection
 are not adversely impacted.                          or interruption of flow;
                                                  b) avoiding groundwater extraction;
 Editor's Note—Groundwater dependent              c) maintaining groundwater recharge and discharge
 ecosystems are identified on Queensland              processes;
 Government Wetland Info mapping.                 d) maintaining natural groundwater fluctuations;

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