Vegetation Management, Monitoring and Reporting Plan
Specifications
- Client: Seqwater
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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