Public Environment Report Tarkine Forest Drive ... - Transport

Code Site Name Significance SensitivityNSB03Arthur River Togari Group TypicalSectionRegional 8NSB09 Australia Point Ladder Ripples Local 3NSB05 Roger River – Ekberg Karst Systems Unknown 4Table 4.2 - Geoconservation site sensitivity indexSensitivity Definition123456Values sensitive to inadvertent damage simply by diffuse, freeranging human pedestrian passage, even with care (e.g. fragilesurfaces that may be crushed underfoot).Values sensitive to effects of more focussed human pedestrian accesseven without deliberate disturbance (e.g. entrenchment bypedestrian tracks; coastal dune disturbance).Values sensitive to damage by scientific or hobby collecting orsampling, or by deliberate vandalism or theft (e.g. some fossil andmineral sites; speleothems).Values sensitive to damage by remote processes (e.g. hydrological orwater quality changes; blasting impact; changes to subsurfaceseepage water routes).Values sensitive to damage by higher intensity shallow linear impacts,depending upon their precise position (e.g. vehicle tracks; minor roadconstruction; excavation of ditches or trenches).Values sensitive to higher intensity but shallow generaliseddisturbance on site. (This might involve either the removal oraddition of material) (E.g. light tracks and associated drainagechanges; soil erosion; site rehabilitation in quarries or road cuttings).7Values sensitive to deliberate linear or generalised shallowexcavation (simple road construction; shallow borrow pits).8Values sensitive to major removal of geo-material, or large scaleexcavation or construction (e.g. quarries).9Values sensitive only to very large scale contour change (e.g. verylarge quarries).10Special cases. Large regions whose geoconservation values resideessentially in their large scale form.4.6 Historic heritage valuesNo listed historic heritage sites of either state or national significance were identifiedby the historic heritage investigations.4.7 Indigenous heritage valuesThe background research and field investigations found no new Aboriginal heritagesites. The investigation did confirm a number of known Aboriginal Heritage Sites (aslisted on the Tasmanian Aboriginal Site Index) adjacent to the proposed roaddevelopment on Segment D.Because the proposed works predominantly involve sealing existing roads only they arenot expected to impact on any known Aboriginal heritage sites.Ref: HB09080H001 PER Tarkine Drive 33P Rev 00/DL/CL/jw 36