Sustainable Water Management Plan - Nillumbik Shire Council

Stormwater Quality Action Plan
The Stormwater Quality Action Plan details actions Council can take to ensure its own operations are not
impacting on the environment, as well as actions Council can undertake to limit the community’s impact on
the environment.
1. Strategic objective: Ensure best practice in all of Council’s operations
to minimise impacts on the surrounding environment.
Sediment and erosion control
A* * Action identified in another plan
Council action Priority Responsibility Partners
1.1 SMP Undertake restoration programs in degraded ongoing EW and PM MW
environments in Council reserves that adjoin or
impact on significant waterways to improve water
quality in these waterways. This can include
revegetation, bank stabilisation, weed control and
removal and rabbit control. Priority is for those areas
identified in the Nillumbik Stormwater Management
Plan 2002.
1.2 Work with Melbourne Water to identify and restore ongoing EW MW
degraded riparian areas in the Shire through bank
stabilisation, revegetation, weed control and removal,
debris clearance and programs to strengthen
environmental flows and water quality in waterways.
1.3 ES Ensure formal referral of any applications for the ongoing PBS
construction of dams to Melbourne Water and
Department of Sustainability and Environment to
gain advice and inform planning decisions to protect
environmental flows in waterways.
1.4 SMP Apply best practice work procedures and/or guidelines 2008 ID and IM
ES for road and drain maintenance works manuals using
the ARRB Transport Research publication Unsealed
Roads Manual – Guidelines to Good Practice
Revised Ed 2000 and include these into Council’s
work manuals.
A* * Action identified in another plan
Council-led community action Priority Responsibility Partners
1a SMP Continue to provide Asset Protection Local Law ongoing PBS
requirement information with all relevant planning
and building permits.
1b Monitor construction site management conditions in ongoing PBS and ID
relation to erosion and sediment control on residential,
commercial and industrial construction sites.
1c SMP Apply guidelines on good construction site 2009 PBS and ID
management utilising materials such as the
Environmental Guidelines for Building Sites
developed by MWC, EPA, Master Builders
Association and the HIA or materials developed
by MBA, EcoRecycle and RMIT.
1d Conduct training/staff awareness to assist contract 2010 EP
managers in the enforcement of the erosion and
sediment control guidelines.
1.5 Investigate methods to filter sediment run-off from 2008 ID
unsealed roads (sediment ponds or filters) in priority
areas where it is not anticipated roads will be sealed.
1.6 Implement erosion and sediment control guidelines 2008 ID
based on best practice management for Council staff
and contractors on construction sites to ensure
treatment of water prior to entering receiving waters.
1.7 Require a site management plan and risk assessment 2008 ID and PBS
which includes erosion and sediment control procedures
for all Council tenders for construction works.
1.8 In Council development projects, contain all soil and ongoing IM
mulch stock piles within bunded areas.
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