Module 5 - VicForests
Module 5 - VicForests
Module 5 - VicForests
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FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM, AUDIT WORKBOOK 5B – WATER QUALITY, RIVER HEALTH AND SOIL PROTECTION<br />
Water Quality, River Health and Soil Protection<br />
Ref Origin Section Prescription Audit Criteria Compliance<br />
Environmental Impact Assessment<br />
Extent<br />
(E)<br />
Duration<br />
(t)<br />
Filters – Mandatory Actions<br />
Auditor Comments<br />
Asset<br />
Value (z) Impact<br />
5B29 Code of<br />
Practice for<br />
Timber<br />
Production<br />
2007<br />
5B30 Code of<br />
Practice for<br />
Timber<br />
Production<br />
2007<br />
2.2.1 Water<br />
Quality,<br />
River Health<br />
and Soil<br />
Protection<br />
2.2.1 Water<br />
Quality,<br />
River Health<br />
and Soil<br />
Protection<br />
Machinery must not enter<br />
a filter strip, except at<br />
stream crossings as<br />
specified in the approved<br />
Forest Coupe Plan.<br />
Pushing of fill or<br />
harvesting debris into a<br />
filter strip is not permitted<br />
except for the construction<br />
of an approved stream<br />
crossing.<br />
Machinery entered filter<br />
strip in agreed points only.<br />
Code guidelines followed.<br />
5B31 Code of<br />
Practice for<br />
Timber<br />
Production<br />
2007<br />
5B32 Code of<br />
Practice for<br />
Timber<br />
Production<br />
2007<br />
2.2.1 Water<br />
Quality,<br />
River Health<br />
and Soil<br />
Protection<br />
2.2.1 Water<br />
Quality,<br />
River Health<br />
and Soil<br />
Protection<br />
Buffer and filter strips<br />
must be increased beyond<br />
the measures listed<br />
whenever appropriate to<br />
take account of<br />
topography.<br />
Buffer and filter strips<br />
must be increased beyond<br />
the measures listed<br />
whenever appropriate to<br />
take account of intensity<br />
and magnitude of the<br />
harvesting operation.<br />
Filter strip widths increased<br />
if required.<br />
Slope Range: «SlopeMin»-<br />
«SlopeMax»<br />
Filter strip widths increased<br />
if required.<br />
FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM – MODULE 5 HARVESTING AND CLOSURE, APRIL 2010 PAGE 17 OF 30<br />
FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM, AUDIT WORKBOOK 5B – WATER QUALITY, RIVER HEALTH AND SOIL PROTECTION<br />
Water Quality, River Health and Soil Protection<br />
Ref Origin Section Prescription Audit Criteria Compliance<br />
Environmental Impact Assessment<br />
Extent<br />
(E)<br />
Duration<br />
(t)<br />
Filters – Mandatory Actions<br />
Auditor Comments<br />
Asset<br />
Value (z) Impact<br />
5B33 Code of<br />
Practice for<br />
Timber<br />
Production<br />
2007<br />
2.2.1 Water<br />
Quality,<br />
River Health<br />
and Soil<br />
Protection<br />
Buffer and filter strips<br />
must be increased beyond<br />
the measures listed<br />
whenever appropriate to<br />
take account of any other<br />
requirements set out in<br />
Special Area Plans under<br />
the Catchment and Land<br />
Protection Act 1994.<br />
Filter strip widths increased<br />
if required.<br />
5B34 Fire Salvage 9.1 Barred During harvesting of fire<br />
Harvest Galaxias salvage, minimum stream<br />
Prescriptions Management buffer and filter strip<br />
2009 Prescription widths must be applied<br />
upstream of Barred<br />
Galaxias populations (all<br />
soils).<br />
see below.<br />
Filter strip widths comply.<br />
Comments:<br />
Minimum stream buffer and filter width strips for Barred Galaxias<br />
Source: Section 9.1, Salvage Prescriptions<br />
Stream class Slope 0-20° * Slope 21-30°<br />
Permanent 40m B + 10m F 50m B + 10m F<br />
Temporary 20m B + 20m F 30m B+ 20m F<br />
Drainage Lines 10m F 15m F<br />
Wetlands 40m B 50m B<br />
*Slope should be regarded as the average slope of the coupe area in the vicinity of the water<br />
body and within the catchment<br />
FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM – MODULE 5 HARVESTING AND CLOSURE, APRIL 2010 PAGE 18 OF 30
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