Module 5 - VicForests

FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM, AUDIT WORKBOOK 5E – ROADING
Roading – Mandatory Actions
Construction
Environmental Impact Assessment Auditor Comments
Ref Origin Section Prescription Audit Criteria Compliance Extent Duration Asset
(E) (t) Value (z) Impact
5E51 Code of
Practice for
Timber
Production
2007
5E52 Code of
Practice for
Timber
Production
2007
2.4.3 Road All fill disposal areas and
Construction embankments must be
planned and designed to
minimise soil erosion,
mass soil movement, and
potential water quality
deterioration. They must
be appropriately
stabilised. Where
revegetation is used to
stabilise fills or
embankments, the
species must be suitable
for the site and where
possible indigenous to the
area.
2.4.3 Road
Construction
(page 30)
Mandatory Action;
Erosion and sediment
control must be an
ongoing activity over the
duration of the
construction activity,
integrated with the works
schedule. Road
construction sites must
have erosion mitigation
measures in place and
appropriate temporary
drainage to ensure that
the site is left protected
between construction
activities.
Faces / slope / fill /
embankments stabilised
effectively, or
stabilisation considered
but not required and
where implemented,
species used in
revegetation are
suitable for the site and
indigenous to the area.
Erosion mitigation
measures in place and
evidence of erosion and
sediment maintenance
works planned and
undertaken.
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FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM, AUDIT WORKBOOK 5E – ROADING
Roading – Mandatory Actions
Construction
Environmental Impact Assessment Auditor Comments
Ref Origin Section Prescription Audit Criteria Compliance Extent Duration Asset
(E) (t) Value (z) Impact
5E53
Management 1.6.3.2 Permanent road
Procedures Forest Roads
for timber
harvesting,
roading and
regeneration
in Victoria’s
State forests,
2009
5E54 Code of
Practice for
Timber
Production
2007
5E55 Code of
Practice for
Timber
Production
2007
construction must not
bury stumps, logs or
other debris in the
formed width of a road;
and all debris must be
removed from the formed
width of the road.
2.4.3 Road Quarry materials infected
Construction with Phytophthora
cinnamomi must not be
used.
2.4.3 Road Road construction
Construction operations must ensure
that disturbance to
stream beds and banks is
kept to a minimum.
No evidence of the
burying of stumps, logs
or other debris and
surface debris removed
from road area.
Evidence that clean
quarry materials have
been sourced and used.
Evidence of minimal
disturbance to stream
beds and banks.
5E56 Code of
Practice for
Timber
Production
2007
2.4.3 Road Road construction
Construction operations must ensure
that soil and rock fill is
not pushed into streams,
nor placed into a position
where there is a risk
that it can erode into a
stream.
Materials are not placed
where they can enter a
stream or wetland.
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