27Development on acid sulfate soils

27 Development on acid sulfate soils

27 Development on acid sulfate soils

(1) This clause applies to land identified as having high probability to be affected by acid sulfate soils on the map prepared by the Department of Land and Water Conservation entitled “Acid Sulfate Soil Risk Map” dated December 1997 and available for public inspection at the office of the Council.

(2) Despite any other provision of this plan, the consent of the Council is required for any development which involves or is likely to involve, through drainage, earthworks, or any other means, the exposure to the atmosphere of any part of soil which contains iron pyrites within land to which this clause applies.

(3) The Council must not consent to development described in subclause (2) unless it is satisfied that measures can and will be taken to avoid or mitigate the actual or potential contamination of waterways in the vicinity of the land concerned by acid from acid sulfate soils.

cl 27: Am 18.12.1998. Subst 16.7.1999. Am 13.6.2003.