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FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM, AUDIT WORKBOOK 5B – WATER QUALITY, RIVER HEALTH AND SOIL PROTECTION Water Quality, River Health and Soil Protection Waterways – Mandatory Actions Environmental Impact Assessment Ref Origin Section Prescription Audit Criteria Compliance Extent Duration Asset Impact Auditor Comments (E) (t) Value (z) 5B11 Code of Practice for Timber Production 2007 Comments: 2.2.1 Water Quality, River Health and Soil Protection Buffers and filter strips must be applied to each waterway class regardless of the origins of the channelling. Buffers and filters have been applied. Waterway Classification The classification of a waterway is based on its characteristics prior to harvesting, noting that stream flow may change following harvesting. Source: Code, Section 2.2.1 pg19 and Glossary pg 74-81. 1. Pools, permanent streams and wetlands (Pools of still water at least 4 metres in diameter within or adjacent to the main channel of a permanent or temporary stream. Permanent spring, swampy ground, wetland or other body of standing water. Rivers and streams that flow throughout the year however may stop flowing or dry out in extremely dry years. Support distinctive riparian vegetation) 2. Temporary streams (clearly defined stream bed or continuous channel, obvious incision, distinctive riparian veg, flow during certain seasonal periods of the year) 3. Drainage lines (depressions that have visible evidence of periodically flowing water that feed into temporary or permanent streams. A defined channel may or may not be present. Visible water flow would be expected after storm events or briefly in the wettest times of the year. Riparian veg may or may not be present) FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM – MODULE 5 HARVESTING AND CLOSURE, APRIL 2010 PAGE 11 OF 30 FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM, AUDIT WORKBOOK 5B – WATER QUALITY, RIVER HEALTH AND SOIL PROTECTION Water Quality, River Health and Soil Protection Ref Origin Section Prescription Audit Criteria Compliance 5B12 Code of Practice for Timber Production 2007 5B13 Code of Practice for Timber Production 2007 5B14 Code of Practice for Timber Production 2007 2.2.1 Water Quality, River Health and Soil Protection 2.2.1 Water Quality, River Health and Soil Protection 2.2.1 Water Quality, River Health and Soil Protection Water quality and river health must be protected by maintaining buffers and/or filter strips (to each side of the waterway) The location of buffers and filter strips must be easily distinguishable in the field, either through the use of geographic features or marking. Trees must not be felled from within buffer areas unless the selective removal of trees for safety is approved by an authorised officer and documented in the Forest Coupe Plan. Buffers must not be less than the widths specified in Table 2 of the code. REFER TO MEASUREMENTS Fauna Notes: «FaunaValues» SEH Topsoil: SEH Subsoil: Slope Range: «SlopeMin»- «SlopeMax» Buffer shown on coupe plan and identified in field. REFER TO MEASUREMENTS Tree(s) have not been felled from within buffer strips. Any removals must be approved and noted on the Forest Coupe Plan. If removed, trees knocked into the buffer by accident should be noted on the Forest Coupe Plan. Environmental Impact Assessment Auditor Comments Extent Duration Asset Impact (E) (t) Value (z) Buffers – Mandatory Actions FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM – MODULE 5 HARVESTING AND CLOSURE, APRIL 2010 PAGE 12 OF 30
FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM, AUDIT WORKBOOK 5B – WATER QUALITY, RIVER HEALTH AND SOIL PROTECTION Water Quality, River Health and Soil Protection Ref Origin Section Prescription Audit Criteria Compliance 5B15 Code of Practice for Timber Production 2007 5B16 Code of Practice for Timber Production 2007 5B17 Code of Practice for Timber Production 2007 5B18 Code of Practice for Timber Production 2007 2.2.1 Water Quality, River Health and Soil Protection 2.2.1 Water Quality, River Health and Soil Protection 2.2.1 Water Quality, River Health and Soil Protection 2.2.1 Water Quality, River Health and Soil Protection Trees accidentally felled into buffers may be removed only where authorised and only if significant damage and disturbance of soil and vegetation within the buffer can be avoided. Buffers must be protected from damage caused by trees felled in adjacent areas. Machinery must not enter a buffer area except for the construction and use of stream crossings as specified in the approved Forest Coupe Plan. Pushing of fill or harvesting debris into a buffer or construction of drain structures within a buffer is not permitted except for the construction of an approved stream crossing. Removal of trees felled into the buffer zones have been approved and tree(s) felled into buffer strips are removed without causing significant damage and disturbance to retained vegetation and soil. Buffer is intact. Machinery has not entered buffer strip in a nonapproved stream crossing. Fill or harvesting debris has not been pushed into buffer and drain structures have not been created. Environmental Impact Assessment Extent (E) Duration (t) Buffers – Mandatory Actions Asset Impact Auditor Comments Value (z) FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM – MODULE 5 HARVESTING AND CLOSURE, APRIL 2010 PAGE 13 OF 30 FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM, AUDIT WORKBOOK 5B – WATER QUALITY, RIVER HEALTH AND SOIL PROTECTION Water Quality, River Health and Soil Protection Ref Origin Section Prescription Audit Criteria Compliance 5B19 Code of Practice for Timber Production 2007 5B20 Code of Practice for Timber Production 2007 2.2.1 Water Quality, River Health and Soil Protection 2.2.1 Water Quality, River Health and Soil Protection Buffer and filter strips must be increased beyond the measures listed whenever appropriate to take account of topography. Buffer and filter strips must be increased beyond the measures listed whenever appropriate to take account of intensity and magnitude of the harvesting operation. Buffer widths increased if required. Slope Range: «SlopeMin»- «SlopeMax» Buffer widths increased if required. Environmental Impact Assessment Auditor Comments Extent Duration Asset Impact (E) (t) Value (z) Buffers – Mandatory Actions 5B21 Code of Practice for Timber Production 2007 2.2.1 Water Quality, River Health and Soil Protection Buffer must be increased beyond the measures listed whenever appropriate to take into account the location of a water supply ‘take-off’ point. Buffer widths increased if required. 5B22 Code of Practice for Timber Production 2007 2.2.1 Water Quality, River Health and Soil Protection Buffer and filter strips must be increased beyond the measures listed whenever appropriate to take account of any other requirements set out in Special Area Plans under the Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994. Water Supply: «Catchment» Buffer widths increased if required. FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM – MODULE 5 HARVESTING AND CLOSURE, APRIL 2010 PAGE 14 OF 30
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