Vegetation Management, Monitoring and Reporting Plan

Specifications

• Client: Seqwater
• Scope:

  Preparation of a vegetation management, maintenance & monitoring plan to:

  • consolidate all vegetation commitments associated with Wyaralong Dam approval into a single plan that articulates the required activities, timeframes and responsible parties
  • establish a program for the ongoing management, monitoring, and reporting associated with vegetation management areas
  • ensure compliance with DEWHA (DSEWPaC) and Coordinator-General approval conditions
  • present the most effective means of achieving the required vegetation outcomes for the site
• Challenge:

  Separate Federal and State Development conditions resulted in two sets of management, monitoring and reporting requirements over the same area of revegetation works. The result was a requirement for assessment of different parameters on different reporting calendars.

• Solution:

  By developing a thorough understanding of the respective legislations, in combination with a practical and objective approach to management and monitoring requirements, Verterra was able to merge the management, monitoring and reporting requirements into a single, co-ordinated assessment and reporting program, substantially reducing complexity and compliance costs.

• Benefit to Client:

  The project guided the client through an intricate web of numerous and conflicting environmental conditions and plans from multiple sources, delivered a single, long-term, consolidated plan and assisted the client to renegotiate inconsistent conditions.

• Market Sector: Water and Wastewater
• Capabilities:
  • Environmental surveys, benchmarking and biodiversity assessment
  • Monitoring and database management
  • Property management planning
  • Natural resource management and environmental economics
• Location: Queensland
• Year: 2011 - 2012