Annual Plan 2016-17 - Approved by Council 27 June 2016

2.3.1.6 Prepare and maintain Council’s contaminated sites register and utilise this when
assessing land use and development proposals.
2.3.1.7 Identify environmentally relevant Level 1 activities (under EMPCA) and prepare a
strategy for ongoing best practice monitoring and management.
3.1.1.1 Catchment management plans for priority catchments are to be developed and
implemented as resourcing allows and in partnership with stakeholders.
3.1.1.2 Undertake recreational water sampling of local beaches to monitor water quality and
ensure that these environments are suitable for public use.
3.1.1.3 Identify those unsewered locations that exhibit signs of domestic wastewater pollution
and arrange for landowners to upgrade their onsite wastewater management systems.
3.1.1.4 Identify key stormwater outfalls that potentially impact on recreational or
environmental values and determine any likely causes of pollution.
3.1.2.2 Implement a public awareness program that increases the community’s awareness of
the significant values protected within the Council’s reserves network.
3.1.3.1 Implement the Kingborough Weed Management Strategy 2015-2025.
3.1.3.2 Manage weeds on Council reserves and roadsides and raise community awareness
about how to eradicate noxious weeds on private land.
3.1.3.3 Participate in regional and state-wide programs that provide coordinated responses to
invasive species.
3.1.3.4 Continue to facilitate and implement the Kingborough Cat Management Program.
3.1.4.1 Provide the community with support and constructive avenues for engagement in
marine and coastal issues.
3.1.4.2 Investigate the opportunities to develop a coastal policy for Kingborough and identify
how this might link in with associated policies at a State level.
3.1.4.3 Identify Council managed coastal areas that require rehabilitation and/or protection
and implement a program to progressively undertake this work.
3.1.5.1 Work with the State Government and partners to initiate and implement recovery
actions, threat abatement and data collection.
3.1.6.2 Commission research and investigative studies on coastal vulnerability, policy
implications, mitigation works and ecosystem-based adaptation opportunities.
3.2.1.1 Support and participate in the work being done by the Derwent Estuary Program.
3.2.1.2 Support and participate in the work being undertaken as part of the D’Entrecasteaux
and Huon Collaboration.
3.2.2.1 Provide public information on and review when necessary Council’s regulatory
requirements for vegetation clearance.
3.2.2.2 Implement Council’s biodiversity offsets policy and the program of works that is
required to properly expend the collected funds.
3.2.2.3 Prepare and publicly release easily understood information about Council’s regulatory
requirements and general advice in regard to a broad range of environmental
conservation related matters.
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Approved by Council on 27 June 2016