Penrith Bush Fire Management Committee Bush Fire Risk ...

PENRITH BUSH FIRE MANAGEMENTCOMMITTEE DRAFT BUSH FIRE RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN
Table 5.3
Zone Exclusions under the NVC Act
Asset
Protection
Strategic Fire
Advantage
Land
Management
1) Construction and maintenance of fire breaks up to 100 metres
wide in relation to habitable structures and for other community
assets identified in this Plan in accordance with Planning for
Bushfire Protection.
2) Maintenance of existing fire trails 1 identified within this Plan.
1) Maintenance of existing fire breaks 2 ,
2) Maintenance of existing fire trails 1 identified within this Plan.
3) Construction of a new fire trail 1 identified within this Plan
except within State protected land.
4) Bush fire hazard reduction works to reduce available fuel levels
to within 8 to 15 tonnes/ha with a coverage of between 60-
80%, except:
a) within or within 20 metres of a watercourse 3 ; and/or
b) within a rainforest.
1) Maintenance of existing fire breaks 2 ,
2) Maintenance of existing fire trails 1 identified within this Plan
3) All bush fire hazard reduction works consistent with appropriate
fire thresholds identified within this Plan except:
a) within or within 20 metres of a watercourse 3 ; and/or
b) within a rainforest.
3) Fire management activities consistent with a Crown land Fire
Management Plan approved by DLWC.
4) Construction of new firebreaks (up to 6 metres wide) along
property boundaries, except:
a) where the vegetation is native and contiguous with native
vegetation on an adjoining property 4 , and/or
b) within State protected land.
Fire Exclusion 1) Maintenance of existing fire breaks 2 (by slash/tritter),
2) Maintenance of existing fire trails 1 identified within this Plan.
1
fire trail construction is based upon a 4 metres carriageway with a 1 metre slashed/trittered edge on
each side of the carriageway with an additional allowance for passing bays, (3 metres wide by 20 metres
long) not less than 200 metres apart.
2
existing fire breaks is land that has been previously cleared for bushfire hazard reduction and contains
regrowth less than 10 years old, to a maximum of 20 metres width in the Eastern Division, and 30 metres
width on Western Division leasehold land except where mallee species predominate where a up to 100
metres width may be maintained.
3
watercourse includes a ‘wetland’ as defined under the NVC Act and a ‘river’ as defined under the Rivers
and Foreshores Improvement Act, 1948 (see Glossary)
4
other exemption or exclusions from the NVC Act may apply in this situation.
“ Wetland” includes any shallow body of water (such as a marsh, billabong, swamp or sedgeland) that is:
(a) inundated cyclically, intermittently or permanently with water, and
(b) vegetated with wetland plant communities. (Native Vegetation Conservation Act, 1997)
“river” includes any stream of water, whether perennial or intermittent, flowing channel, or in a natural
channel artificially improved, or in an artificial channel which has changed the course of the stream of
water and affluent, confluent, branch or other stream into or from which the river flows and, in the case of
a river running to the sea or into any coastal bay or inlet or into coastal lake, includes the estuary of such
river and arm or branch of the same and any part of the river influenced by tidal waters. (Rivers and
Foreshores Improvement Act 1948).
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