Approved Document OPW18-0342.01 Environment Management Plan Stage 2_Grasstree Court July 2021 (1)

Ecological Management Plan – Grasstree Court – Lot 9



     5. REHABILITATION ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE

Approval conditions require rehabilitation works to undergo a five-year maintenance period.

The On-Maintenance period is proposed to start once the stage 2 area within T2 area has received the translocated
soil treatment and the ecologist and Council has signed off on the works. Once the maintenance period has started,
photo monitoring points will be established for reporting purposes and operational works approval conditions.

In accordance with condition 12, the establishment of the vegetation offsets must be completed prior to the
commencement of the use of the first stage (i.e. Lot 6). As such, the “establishment” phase will be deemed
completed prior to the start of on-maintenance (i.e. once the initial practical works have been completed for stage 1
rehabilitation area and balance area weed management).

As time progresses, Stage 1 and Stage 2 rehabilitation works will be monitored and reported simultaneously.

Maintenance visits will occur every month for the first year. Each visit will involve recording presence or absence of
active regrowth/recruitment, photos from monitoring points, weed control requirements (including to the
surrounding buffer area), watering requirements, mulching requirements, sediment and erosion control, reporting
progress and any other items as needed.

This first year will determine whether the area requires enhancement planting dependent on the success of the
translocation works. Recommendations regarding further planting will be determined at the end of the first year and
will based on the rehabilitation performance.

For the balance of the maintenance period, quarterly maintenance visitation will occur (i.e. years 2-5) with recording
as per year 1.

At the end of the maintenance period it is proposed to have the area established with 90 - 95% native vegetation
cover and showing signs of returning to a self-sustaining ecosystem such as self-mulching, indications that all levels of
strata (ground, mid and canopy) are or likely to be present and fauna recruitment to the area (refer Section 6).




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