PART B Longwood to Violet Town (KP107.6 - KP141.2) (Looping 2)
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APA GasNet Australia (Operations) Pty Ltd Victorian Northern Interconnect Expansion – Flora and Fauna Assessment PART B Longwood to Violet Town (KP107.6 - KP141.2) (Looping 2) PART B – TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. REGIONAL BACKGROUND ......................................................................... 1 1.1 General .........................................................................................................1 1.2 Land Use .......................................................................................................2 1.2.1 Planning Zones ........................................................................................... 2 1.2.2 Environmental Overlays ................................................................................ 2 1.3 Waterways .....................................................................................................2 1.4 Previous Studies ..............................................................................................3 2.0 FLORA ASSESSMENT ............................................................................... 4 2.1 Ecological Vegetation Classes ..............................................................................4 2.1.1 Existing Vegetation Condition ......................................................................... 4 2.1.2 Vegetation Descriptions ................................................................................ 5 2.1.3 Scattered Indigenous Trees ............................................................................ 7 2.1.4 Planted vegetation ...................................................................................... 7 2.1.5 Weeds ..................................................................................................... 7 2.2 Permitted Clearing Assessment ............................................................................8 2.2.1 Risk-based Pathway ..................................................................................... 8 2.2.2 Habitat Hectare Assessment ........................................................................... 8 2.2.3 Tree Assessment ......................................................................................... 9 2.3 Targeted Surveys for Threatened Flora & Vegetation Communities .............................. 10 2.3.1 Targeted Surveys for Threatened Flora ........................................................... 10 2.3.2 Targeted Surveys for Threatened Vegetation Communities ................................... 12 3.0 FAUNA ASSESSMENT ............................................................................ 15 3.1 Fauna Profile ................................................................................................ 15 3.2 Habitat Types and Significance .......................................................................... 15 3.2.1 Open Farmland ......................................................................................... 15 3.2.2 Woodland ............................................................................................... 15 3.2.3 Watercourses and Dams .............................................................................. 15 3.3 Targeted Surveys for Threatened Fauna ............................................................... 16 3.4 Results of Targeted Surveys .............................................................................. 17 4.0 LEGISLATIVE IMPLICATIONS ................................................................... 20 4.1 Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 ................................. 20 4.2 State Legislation ............................................................................................ 20 4.2.1 Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 .............................................................. 20 4.2.2 Wildlife Act 1975 ...................................................................................... 20 4.2.3 Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994 ........................................................ 20 4.3 Permitted Clearing Regulations .......................................................................... 20 5.0 RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................................ 23 5.1 Kirwan’s Bridge – Longwood Road and Pranjip Creek KP109.64 – 109.67 ......................... 23 5.2 Longwood – Pranjip Road KP110.37 ..................................................................... 23 5.3 Government Road KP112.1 ............................................................................... 23 5.4 Creighton’s Siding Road KP116.88 to Drysdale Road KP117.2 and Government Road KP118.35 24 5.5 Angle Road KP119.2 ........................................................................................ 24 5.6 Euroa Airstrip KP120.5 – 121.05 .......................................................................... 24 5.7 Moglonemby Road KP127.27 .............................................................................. 25 5.8 Lawrence Road KP128.1 ................................................................................... 25 5.9 Government Road KP138.97 .............................................................................. 25 5.10 Minahan Lane (KP140.15) and Alan McDiarmid Road (KP141.17) .................................. 25 5.11 Tree and Vegetation Removal ............................................................................ 25 MONARC ENVIRONMENTAL PTY LTD Telephone (03) 8809 1800 Suite 3 259 Whitehorse Road Facsimile (03) 9836 0801 BALWYN VIC 3103 Page i Email [email protected] APA GasNet Australia (Operations) Pty Ltd Victorian Northern Interconnect Expansion – Flora and Fauna Assessment PART B Longwood to Violet Town (KP107.6 - KP141.2) (Looping 2) List of Tables Table B1: Summary of Planning Zones ................................................................................. 2 Table B2: Named Waterways Intersected by the Project .......................................................... 3 Table B3: DEPI modelled pre-1750 Ecological Vegetation Classes within the Local Area .................... 4 Table B4: Ecological Vegetation Classes identified During the Field Assessments ............................. 4 Table B5: Declared Noxious Weed Species ............................................................................ 8 Table B6: Summary of Habitat Hectare Vegetation Quality Assessment......................................... 9 Table B7: Summary of Scattered Indigenous Trees per EVC ....................................................... 9 Table B8 Summary of Indigenous Trees in patches per EVC ..................................................... 10 Table B9: Summary of Threatened Flora Species Recorded within 5 kilometres of the Easement ....... 11 Table B10: Threatened Communities along the Easement ....................................................... 12 Table B11: Threatened FFG Act Listed Communities along the easement .................................... 13 Table B12: Summary of Threatened Fauna Species ............................................................... 16 Table B13: Summary of Locations and Fauna Surveys Undertaken ............................................. 17 Table B14: Findings of Fauna Surveys ................................................................................ 18 Table B15: Summary of Vegetation Clearance Measures ......................................................... 22 List of Figures Figure B1 Overview of Looping 2 APPENDICES APPENDIX B1 Route Maps APPENDIX B2 Flora Lists APPENDIX B3 Habitat Hectare Assessment Results APPENDIX B4 Indigenous Tree Assessment Results APPENDIX B5 Database Report – Protected matters under the EPBC APPENDIX B6 VBA Search Report & Likelihood of Occurrence B6a: Flora B6b: Fauna APPENDIX B7 Threatened Flora Species – Habitat Preferences and Results APPENDIX B8 Threatened Fauna Descriptions APPENDIX B9 Fauna Survey Results – Birds and Nocturnal Surveys Appendix B10 Bioclimatic Data– Growling Grass Frog Surveys B10a: Site Location and Climatic Conditions B10b: Water Quality B10c: Summary of Habitats B10d: Frog Species Recorded APPENDIX B11 Fauna Survey Results – Brown Toadlet MONARC ENVIRONMENTAL PTY LTD Telephone (03) 8809 1800 Suite 3 259 Whitehorse Road Facsimile (03) 9836 0801 BALWYN VIC 3103 Page ii Email [email protected] APA GasNet Australia (Operations) Pty Ltd Victorian Northern Interconnect Expansion – Flora and Fauna Assessment PART B Longwood to Violet Town (KP107.6 - KP141.2) (Looping 2) 1. REGIONAL BACKGROUND APA GasNet Australia (Operations) Pty Ltd (‘APA’) is to looping (duplicating) part of the existing Wollert to Wodonga gas transmission pipeline (pipeline licence 101) between Longwood and Violet Town, Victoria (known as Looping 2). The Wollert to Wodonga gas transmission pipeline was constructed in 1975 and runs in an approximately north easterly direction from Wollert on the northern outskirts of Melbourne through to Wodonga, a total distance of approximately 257km. This pipeline occupies an easement of 35m in width. The proposed pipeline looping is to be installed within the previously disturbed current pipeline easement. With reference to the starting point of the existing pipeline at Wollert, this looping will commence at Kilometre Point (KP107.6) and finish at KP141.2, a total distance of 33.6km. An overview of the section to be looped is provided in Figure B1 whilst detailed pipeline maps are provided in Appendix B1. Monarc Environmental Pty Ltd