Supporting Document - Attachment 2 - Summary Dashboards - IPART

ATTACHMENT 2
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT — ASSET OVERVIEW
CONDITION OF FIRE TRAIL ASSETS
Business As Usual
Current
10 Year Projected
5% 10%
Comments
No monetary allocation is currently made to fire trail maintenance on Council lands A small amount of work can be carried out using existing
human and plant resources, but this can only address certain aspects of fire trail management such as vegetation trimming. Major replacements
and repairs are not currently addressed. Council seeks grant funding through State level bush fire mitigation grant programs, but funding
is ad-hoc, tied to specific works and cannot be relied upon as a solution to the problem. Accessible fire trails are essential to early intervention
for suppression/wildfire containment. and to facilitate fuel management burning activities.
85%
GOOD / FAIR CONDITION
52% 15%
current
in 10 years with
available funding
POOR CONDITION
48% 85%
current
in 10 years with
available funding
Confidence in Data:
HIGH
MODERATE
LOW
Risks
Failure to carry out adequate maintenance work can lead to the
rapid failure of drainage control structures and tracks becoming
overgrown. On the Blue Mountains sandstone plateaux, failure
to control running water will lead to rapid trail failures.
If fire trails become degraded and inaccessible, emergency
services may not be able to reach or suppress fires before they
become damaging wildfires.
Effective hazard reduction (fuel management burning) may be
hindered or may become dangerous, especially where tracks
have become overgrown.
Response
Council’s fire mitigation team has been equipped to carryout very
basic fire trail management work. However, no additional resources
have been allocated and fire trail maintenance must be
balanced against asset protection zone maintenance.
Council will continue to seek State Government grant funding,
however, this is not viewed as sustainable in the long term.
Closure of certain fire trails may be required where their characteristics,
such as their steepness, mean that effective maintenance
cannot be funded or is not sustainable. This will have result risk
management outcomes for Council and the community.
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Council may fail to meet its statutory obligations under the Blue
Mountains Bush Fire Risk Management Plan.