Queensland Guidelines: Meat Chicken Farms - Department of ...

standards in the National Farm Biosecurity
Manual Poultry Production is available.
A13
A back-up water supply must be maintained
which has a minimum of two days water
supply available at all times for emergency
use.
A14
Strategies are implemented for managing
power supply failures (e.g. installation of
back-up generators).
4.4 Surface and groundwater
Stormwater management is important to ensure that development does not adversely impact on
the environmental values and water quality of a waterway or wetland. Meat chicken farming is an
intensive use and requires active management of stormwater to ensure that run-off and leachate
from nutrient rich sources do not pollute surface waters (creeks, rivers, dams, lakes, etc) and
groundwater.
Performance criteria
P1
The design and operation of the meat
chicken farm incorporates integrated water
management elements so that:
stormwater peak discharges and run-off
volumes are not increased
natural drainage lines and hydrological
regimes are maintained as far as
practicable.
P2
The environmental values and quality of the
receiving waters within or downstream of the
development are maintained.
P3
Stormwater must be prevented from entering
all sheds and waste storage areas.
Acceptable solution
A1
No acceptable solution.
A2
Locating the meat chicken farm complex
(including sheds and waste storage areas)
on land that is not subject to flooding by the
100 year ARI event.
A3
Wash down water should be:
collected and stored in a suitably sized
effluent pond
applied sustainably to utilisation areas.
A4
Nutrient, pathogen and contaminant levels
in stormwater discharged from the meat
chicken farm do not exceed the water
quality guideline levels of the Australian and
New Zealand guidelines for fresh and
marine water quality 2000 and the relevant
regional plan prior to release into the
environment.
A5
Buffer zones are provided around the meat
chicken farm complex and litter utilisation
areas (see Appendix 1) to reduce the risk of
surface water contamination.
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