DRAFT CORNELIAN BAY MANAGEMENT PLAN March 2006

As endorsed for community consultation by the City Council at its meeting of 19th December 2005 Cover photograph: The gatekeeper’s lodge at Cornelian Bay, built 1887 (Archives Office of NS 1013/1943) Draft

Cornelian Bay Management Plan

March 2006

As endorsed for community consultation by the Hobart City Council at its meeting of 19th December 2005

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N 100 metres CORNELIAN BAY AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH MANAGEMENT PLAN 0 Aerial Image: Department of Primary Industries WaterDate: & 18-Jan-2005 Environment Image Rectification: DataVision GIS Pty Ltd June 2005 Figure 1 Point Cornelian Bay Point Pipe Clay Bay

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Cornelian

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Cycleway Cemetery Cornelian Bay

Railway Line Boat Ramp Carpark Playground Restaurant Toilets WALK

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STREET Sports Crematorium QUEENS Grounds

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AVENUE SELFS BROOKER Park Rugby Sports Grounds VISION STATEMENT

Cornelian Bay shall continue to be a place for the enjoyment of the community in a natural coastal setting within the

Capital City

A place where the natural, cultural and heritage values are protected and enhanced in a sustainable manner.

Cornelian Bay Working Group July 2002

The Cornelian Bay Management Plan has been prepared using the best available information. Every endeavour has been to ensure that it is inclusive of all stakeholders. It builds on and integrates current management actions and initiatives. The management of the Bay will change over time as the community and the natural environment continue to evolve. As a long - term document the Management Plan must be flexible enough to be able to accommodate change and at the same time be enduring to protect the core values of the Bay.

Cornelian Bay Management Plan – Draft for Consultation March 2006 3 CONTENTS PAGE

VISION STATEMENT ...... 3 ABBREVIATIONS...... 7 GLOSSARY...... 7 1.0 SUMMARY...... 8 2.0 INTRODUCTION ...... 9 2.1 Strategic Background...... 9 2.2 Management Plan Purpose ...... 10 2.3 Management Plan Area ...... 10 2.4 Management Plan Aim ...... 10 2.5 Management Plan Objectives ...... 10 3.0 VALUES ...... 11 3.1 Ecological/Natural ...... 11 3.2 Recreational...... 11 3.3 Social - Aesthetic /Atmosphere ...... 11 3.4 Cultural Heritage ...... 11 4.0 DESCRIPTION...... 12 4.1 History...... 12 4.2 Environment...... 13 4.3 Land Tenure...... 17 4.3.1 Zones [from the Planning Scheme]...... 17 4.3.2 Services...... 17 4.3.3 Use ...... 17 5.0 KEY STAKEHOLDERS...... 18 6.0 ISSUES & MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES & ACTIONS...... 19 6.1 Land Tenure ...... 19 6.2 Security ...... 20 6.3 Traffic ...... 21 6.4 Parking: Cars and Other Vehicles...... 22 6.5 Pedestrian Access...... 23 6.6 Boat Ramp and Slipways...... 24 6.7 Passive Recreation...... 25 6.8 Aboriginal and European Heritage ...... 26 6.9 Landscaping...... 27 6.10 Flora - Native and Exotic...... 29 6.11 Fauna - Native, Exotic and Domestic...... 31 6.12 Water and Sediment Quality...... 32 6.13 Monitoring and Review...... 34 6.14 Interpretation...... 35 6.15 Shoreline Erosion ...... 36 6.16 Boatsheds and Aquatic Club (Former Baths)...... 38 7.0 Key Management Actions: Current, Proposed and Ongoing...... 40

Cornelian Bay Management Plan – Draft for Consultation March 2006 5 8.0 References...... 42 Appendix 1: Vegetation Matrix Table...... 43 Appendix 2: Interim Shoreline Erosion Mitigation Plan ...... 44 Appendix 3: Cornelian Bay Boat Ramp Checks...... 45

LIST OF FIGURES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1. Aerial Photograph The Council would like to thank the Derwent Estuary Program, Department of Primary Industries, Water and 2. Heritage Environment, the Southern Regional Cemetery Trust, the Archives Office of Tasmania (AOT) and David Tarbath for 3. Geology/Soils giving their permission to reproduce images from their collections. 4. Vegetation / Habitat 5. Land Tenure & Zones As well as the specific acknowledgments given in respect of the images in Figure 2, acknowledgement should 6. Services be given also to the AOT for the use of the following images in the frieze to Section 6.8: 7. Existing Use Areas 8. Proposed Use Areas. - An early view of Cornelian Bay cemetery AOT 13/24 9. Key Actions for Implementation and Staging of Works - View from the Domain c.1900 AOT 30/7552 10. Access 11. Proposed Layout Boatshed Car Park 12. Landscape Plan Car Park and Stormwater Drainage © Hobart City Council, 2006 13. Cornelian Bay Foreshore Traffic and Landscape Plan 14. Landscape Plan Location Map All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted 15. Cornelian Bay Foreshore Park Landscape Plan any other form by any means without the prior permission of the copyright owners. Enquiries should be made to 16. Landscape Plan Cornelian Bay Point to Gas Road Manager Development Planning, Hobart City Council. 17. Flora 18. Fauna 19. Catchments 20. Shoreline Erosion Mitigation 21. Boatsheds, Aquatic Club & Slipway

Cornelian Bay Management Plan – Draft for Consultation March 2006 6 ABBREVIATIONS CBMT Cornelian Bay Management Team HCC CBWG Cornelian Bay Working Group CFU Colony Forming Units CPTED Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design CS City Services, HCC DEP Derwent Estuary Program DEPMP Derwent Estuary Program Management Plan Dec. 2001 D&ES Development and Environmental Services, HCC DPIWE Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment DHHS Department of Health and Human Services EMPCA Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act 1994 EPBCA Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cwth) HCC Hobart City Council PASS Potential Acid Sulphate Soils P&CS Parks and Customer Services, HCC TAFI Tasmanian Aquaculture Fisheries Institute TSPA Threatened Species Act 1995 (Tas) UTas University of Tasmania GLOSSARY

Backshore Refers to the area immediately behind the high tide mark that is affected by marine processes such as storm waves and high tides.

Bathymetry The underwater equivalent of topography, a bathymetric map gives the depth contours of the soil, rock, sand, etc at the bottom of a body of water such as an ocean or lake; a bathymetric chart provides an aid to navigation

Benthic An organism whose habitat is on or near the bottom of a stream, lake or ocean Cut and fill cycle Refers to natural coastal geomorphological processes whereby sand erodes during storm events and is then redeposited on the shoreline, rebuilding the beach as a normal part of coastal processes Pocket beaches A Pocket Beach is a sand and gravel beach along which no lateral drift of beach material takes place because it is contained between two headlands formed by the onshore and offshore movement of material. Pocket beaches are generally between 30 metres and 100 metres in length Quinquennial Lasting 5 years, reoccurring every five years Senescence The process of growing old, aging Sand budget A sand budget is the amount of sand available in the backshore zone to allow for the beach/foredune to rebuild itself following storm events that can result in the removal of sand offshore

Cornelian Bay Management Plan – Draft for Consultation March 2006 7 1.0 SUMMARY Management Plan combines and builds on the actions Cornelian Bay is a picturesque embayment in the north of ¾Protection and conservation of Aboriginal and contained in the Strategy and provides a framework for the the providing a popular and unique coastal European cultural heritage, on the foreshore and implementation of specific projects. experience close to the heart of the capital city. It has surrounds . significant ecological, natural, cultural heritage (Aboriginal One of the key actions of the Strategy was the establishment and European) and social values and is a popular ¾Shoreline erosion historical, ongoing and potential : of the Cornelian Bay Working Group. The Working Group is destination for passive recreational activities. The Cornelian the removal of sand for sand bags during WWII; made up of nominated community representatives and is Bay Management Plan has been prepared to ensure that trampling by pedestrians, dogs and “feral” animal chaired by the Lord Mayor. It is an important conduit for these shared values are protected in a sustainable manner (duck) activity, loss of native coastal dune species identifying community values and the issues associated with for current and future generations to appreciate and enjoy. and in the future (most probably) sea level rise. the Bay and community input into the implementation of the Strategy’s actions. The Management Plan has been The Management Plan has its emphasis on the coastal ¾Management of the boatsheds (including the prepared taking into account the Vision Statement, Values foreshore area bounded by the Southern Regional Aquatic Club) to ensure cultural heritage values are and Issues that have been identified by the Cornelian Bay Cemetery, Queens Walk and the . Whilst this protected and enhanced, and the development of Working Group. area is narrow and linear it is subject to high usage by the a framework for the appropriate use and ongoing community. It accommodates a range of natural values. management by stakeholders (i.e. boatshed owners, Core features of the Management Plan are: The popular use of the foreshore places significant pressure the Council and, importantly the State Government). on the area and in the absence of any formal management ¾ the identification of the values of the Bay; strategy is under threat of being loved to death by those ¾Poor water quality and sediment contamination by who value it most. both heavy metals (from historical industrial sources) ¾ the identification of issues associated with the use and and coastal urbanisation i.e. diffuse stormwater management of the Bay; The main issues affecting the Bay are: discharges.

¾ proposed issue objectives, strategies and actions to ¾Enhancement and management of passive In 2000 the Hobart City Council endorsed the Cornelian Bay best manage and protect the Bay; and recreation use of the foreshore area including Management Strategy to address a range of issues identified improved pedestrian access and linking tracks, with the management of the Bay. Since its endorsement ¾ the provision of a framework for the preparation of a upgraded facilities (playground, barbeques, vehicle many of the Strategy’s actions have been completed or are “Cornelian Bay Foreshore Traffic and Landscape Master access) and enhanced amenity. currently being implemented. The preparation of a Plan” for the open space area between the boatsheds Management Plan is the logical culmination to the Strategy to the bushland track to Cornelian Bay Point. ¾Protection and conservation of remnant endemic and provides an important tool to ensure that natural, coastal vegetation communities and species and cultural heritage, social and recreational values are These are represented through a series of maps, plans and aquatic vegetation such as sea grasses. protected and enhanced and an holistic and overarching text. approach to the management of the Bay is adopted. The

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Named after “carnelian” gemstones, a dull reddish or reddish structured or informal way in a natural setting and an provide a variety of aquatic habitats, and also help provide white variety of chalcedony (a type of quartz) weathered atmosphere of peace and quiet.” (De Gryse p v). juvenile fish with shelter and protecting them from predation. from the exposed basaltic lava flows, Cornelian Bay, is Scientific research currently being undertaken within the bay nestled between Queens Domain, New Town and Selfs Point. Approximately 170 million years ago the land now occupied is discovering that sediments, although highly contaminated It is shrouded in coastal vegetation and bordered by the by the Cornelian Bay Cemetery was located in the middle of with heavy metals and thought to be devoid of life, are in remnant native dry woodland and grasslands of the northern the Derwent River valley and Cornelian Bay was a tributary of actual fact highly biologically active. the river valley. Lava from volcanic activity in Moonah and side of, the Queens Domain (which has its historic The area abounds with natural beauty and features, Lindisfarne, 35-40 million years ago, flowed into the old ornamental plantings further towards the city - notably the however it has been subject to significant landscape channel, filling the bed and displacing the watercourse. Zoological Gardens, the grounds of Government House and changes. The wetland behind the pocket beach has been Over time the displaced watercourse eroded away softer Soldiers Walk) , the historic and still “working” Cornelian Bay filled in and its waterways have been piped underground. It materials and formed the current channel of the River Cemetery and the hockey fields. With the exception of a now accommodates hockey playing fields and is transected Derwent. Geological processes and changing sea levels, small residential cluster of houses along Bell St and Bellevue by the Brooker . Historically native coastal combined with the movement of tectonic plates, have Parade, the Bay is devoid of a typical urban landscape, vegetation has been removed from the pocket beach; it helped to shape the Bay to its current form. which lends to its overall “natural” ambience. was replanted with exotics in the 1920s to create a “very fine Cornelian Bay is an asset of significant natural, cultural, The remnant coastal vegetation communities are known to recreation ground of about 6 acres,” (Mayor’s report 1928 historical and recreational values. It is highly appreciated by contain 5 species of threatened vegetation. Mature stands p.20). A network of railway, roads, tracks and paths provides the community and is a popular location for passive of Eucalyptus globulus, Blue Gum are an important habitat for access to, through, and around the Bay to serve our recreational activities. It contains features that are typical of for threatened Swift Parrot. In recent times considerable work modern lifestyle, whilst the basalt headland accommodates coastal recreational use, including walking tracks through has been undertaken by the Council and the community in the historic and still functioning Southern Regional Cemetery. remnant coastal vegetation, to the pocket beach and open the management and revegetation of remnant vegetation Understanding and balancing Cornelian Bay’s competing space areas; a dog walking area, restaurant/kiosk, children’s communities. values, needs and uses is integral to its long-term playground, picnic/barbeque facilities and amenities block. Little is known and understood about the marine management and the overall success of the Cornelian Bay It is contiguous with and shares values described in the environment. Whilst the inter-tidal zone may be scorned as Management Plan. Queens Domain Management Plan: “the integrity of its being ugly, muddy and at times smelly, it actually plays an remaining natural areas, its sense of history, its beauty, its important and dynamic role in the Bay’s marine ecosystem. openness, the opportunities it provides to recreate in a The inter-tidal seagrasses trap sediments, cycle nutrients,

2.1 Strategic Background The Hobart City Council, as land manager of the Cornelian Bay foreshore and surrounding These “priority actions” underpin the preparation and contents of the Cornelian Bay area, has been guided by its Strategic Plan 2001–2005 in the shaping of its management Management Plan. They provide reference points and assist in the formulation of long-term framework for the area. The preparation of the Cornelian Bay Management Plan contributes strategies in conjunction with the “Cornelian Bay Management Strategy 2000,” output of the to the realisation of the following “priority actions” of the Strategic Plan: Cornelian Bay Working Group and the findings of the:

¾ Provide management programs and initiatives to maintain and enhance Hobart’s natural x “Cornelian Bay Planning Study,” Barraclough 1999, in particular the findings of residential and landscape values of the Wellington Range and foothills, other bushland and open and user surveys and community based aspirations for the development of the Bay; and space networks #6.2.5 x “Options Paper, Cornelian Bay Boatsheds,” HCC 2001 in particular actions to support, ¾ Develop maintain and review management plans, which include landscape, vegetation cultural heritage values and relevant legislation and jurisdictional requirements. and habitat mapping and hazard assessments to underpin the conservation and management of natural resources # 5.3.1.

Cornelian Bay Management Plan – Draft for Consultation March 2006 9 2.5.5 To encourage and promote recreational 2.2 Management Plan 2.4 Management Plan Aim activities that are consistent with the values of the Bay Purpose The aim of the Cornelian Bay Management Plan is to: 2.5.6 To achieve a safe and healthy coastal provide a set of clear and consistent guiding The purpose of the Cornelian Bay Management Plan is foreshore environment within the management sustainable management principles that can be to enable the further development of the area as a key area passive recreational space within Hobart whilst applied to ensure that the core natural, protecting and enhancing its ecological, social, cultural, cultural/historical and recreational values of 2.5.7 To improve asset infrastructure to support historical and economic values. Cornelian Bay are protected and enhanced. current and future community needs 2.5.8 To provide opportunity for review of the Management Plan 2.3 Management Plan Area 2.5 Management Plan 2.5.9 To encourage understanding and to promote the “The name Cornelian Bay does not refer to a formal Objectives values of Cornelian Bay suburb or specific area of land.” (Scripps 2005 p 1). In a general sense Cornelian Bay includes the hockey The aim of the Cornelian Bay Management Plan is grounds, cemetery, and the small residential section of supported by the following objectives: New Town to the east of the , which includes part of and Bellevue Parade. 2.5.1 To ensure sustainable best practice management principles are applied to all The emphasis and focus of the Cornelian Bay works, activities and developments undertaken Management Plan encompasses the foreshore areas: at Cornelian Bay ¾ Not included in the Queens Domain Management 2.5.2 To protect and enhance the intrinsic natural Plan 1996, values of Cornelian Bay, including terrestrial ¾ From Pipe Clay Point to Selfs Point bounded by and aquatic ecosystems and geo-diversity, Queens Walk, the railway reserve and Southern with a particular focus on endemic flora and Regional Cemetery, and fauna

¾ The inter-tidal flat and other tidal areas to the low 2.5.3 To conserve and promote cultural heritage tide mark. values associated with the Bay Whilst the emphasis of the Management Plan covers the 2.5.4 To minimise impacts from human based above areas other areas such as the hockey fields, road activities on intrinsic natural, cultural and entry to the Bay etc. are also considered. heritage values of Cornelian Bay

Cornelian Bay Management Plan – Draft for Consultation March 2006 10 3.0 VALUES Cornelian Bay has significant intrinsic ecological and anthropocentric [human based] values. It is these values that are central to the Management Plan, and which through the management plan are to be protected and enhanced. The values described below intertwine and contribute collectively to the overall values ascribed to Cornelian Bay.

3.1 Ecological/Natural 3.2 Recreational 3.4 Cultural Heritage Cornelian Bay is highly valued for its natural and ecological Cornelian Bay is highly regarded within the community as a Cornelian Bay provides a significant cultural landscape. It qualities. It contains the only remnant mosaic of coastal passive (unstructured/informal) recreational resource. It is encompasses features of both European and Aboriginal vegetation communities fringing a largely un-developed popular for activities such as walking, relaxing, culture. coastline within Hobart’s municipal area. It is home to barbeques/picnics, children’s playground, off leash dog Subtly contained in the landscape are the middens of terrestrial and marine communities of birds, and threatened walking, fishing and boating/kayaking. Aboriginal people, the Mouheneenner, who once intimately species of plants, animals and birds. Its location adjacent to the Inter City Cycleway and playing included Cornelian Bay in their day-to-day life. No doubt Five threatened plant species are known to occur within in its fields reinforces the recreational values associated with the other cultural practices such as fire stick farming shaped the bushland areas that also form habitat to the threatened Swift Bay. ecological character of the Bay, encouraging the grassed woodlands that are contiguous with the Queens Domain Parrot. Two species of seagrass occur in the inter-tidal zone The quiet, peaceful, ambience of the Bay lends itself to and linked with periodic burning for their ongoing survival and one of these, Zostera muelleri, is the only known passive recreational activities such as walking, reading, and ecological maintenance. occurrence of this seagrass within the Derwent Estuary. A artistic pursuits, contemplation and even fly-fishing practice. species of starfish was endemic to the Bay, however this is The more recent cultural landscape mosaic wrought by now extinct. Europeans is much more obvious. It includes features such as Unlike other coastal areas that have been developed, such 3.3 Social - Aesthetic the clearing of vegetation to form the Government Farm, the as Sandy Bay and the New Town Bay/Rivulet, the nature of transition of the wetlands from racetrack to factories to the activities and land uses in proximity to the Bay have /Atmosphere hockey field, and the removal of beach sand during World War II for civil defence purposes. Built structures including the helped to ensure the retention of its natural values. Cornelian Bay provides a tranquil escape from the bustle of boatsheds, kiosk-now-restaurant, amenities block and boat the capital city. There are many descriptions of its peaceful, ramp, are consistent with, and collectively contribute to, a serene and relaxing atmosphere. It has been the subject of “seaside” atmosphere. many postcards and the subject matter of painters since European settlement. Its “natural” setting, enclosed by the Brooker Highway, Cemetery and the Queens Domain reinforce this tranquil atmosphere, by effectively screening it from the urban and city environments.

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European Heritage 2 Crematorium Cornelian Bay Point Boatsheds QUEENS (Listed in City of Hobart Planning Scheme 1982 BROOKER and on the Tasmanian Heritage Register)

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Carpark Railway site Boat Ramp Cornelian Sports Bay Old fence posts Grounds 3

Details of Photographs

1. Angel headstone at Cornelian Bay Cemetery. Officially opened

WALK Restaurant 22 July 1872. (Image from http://www.srct.com.au/history.html)

2. View looking south-east from cemetery (c1900), showing fencing 9 of which the posts can still be seen today. (AOT 13/16) Playground

Sports 3. The Kiosk at Cornelian Bay 1966 (AOT 30/9323) Grounds 4 4. Children at Cornelian Bay Beach (Weekly Courier 18 August BELL 1919 - p24)

5. The gatekeeper’s lodge at Cornelian Bay was built in 1887 at the STREET Toilets 7 level crossing with the new road from the Queens Domain. (AOT

AVENUE NS 1013/1943)

BELLEVUE 6. View from cemetery (c1905) showing racecourse and beginning of development in Bellevue Parade and Bell St (AOT NS 485/159) PARADE 7. Panorama of the boatsheds (c1945) (AOT NS 952/190/197) Boat Sheds Railway Line 8. Cornelian Bay Baths (c1925) (AOT NS 869/366) 5 8 9. Jam factory & racecourse (AOT NS 892/95) Pipe Clay Point

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HIGHWAY Figure 2 Continues into area included Area included in within Queens Domain Management Plan HERITAGE Queens Domain Management Plan 4.0 DESCRIPTION

The following section provides a brief description of the history of Cornelian Bay. 4.1 History Cornelian Bay has a rich Aboriginal and European history. A detailed account of the area’s history is provided in the report “A Tranquil Haven, A History of Cornelian Bay”, Lindy Scripps, 2005. The following is a brief discussion of some of the key events that make up the known history of the Bay. Figure 2 shows the location of the known Cultural Heritage features within the Bay.

January 1804. A month later Lieutenant Governor Collins established the Government Farm at 4.1.1 Aboriginal what was then known as Farm Bay, growing wheat for the new colony until the 1850’s when it was no longer viable. It was then subdivided into 30 villa estates and sold at auction. It was Much of the 35,000 years of Aboriginal heritage and cultural practice of the area has been lost around this time that the name Cornelian Bay was restored to the embayment. Several years since European colonisation. It is believed that for the Mouheneenner Tasmanian Aboriginal later the land was repurchased for use as Hobart’s cemetery. The first burial, that of 12-year-old people, the Cornelian Bay was part of their day-to-day life. The middens that are now hidden Bridget Ryan, took place in 1872. and integrated in the landscape are testament to their use of the Bay. It is most probable that Charles Darwin made observations of the Bay’s geological features when he visited the area women and children would have used the Bay as their kitchen, diving to collect shellfish such on the HMS Beagle in 1836. They can still be seen today. as scallops, mussels and oysters, fishing in the shallow waters and cooking seafood feasts over fires in the sheltered foreshore embayment. The wetland, which once existed behind the pocket beach, was used as a racecourse in the late 1800s, with the last meeting of the Hobart Turf Club held in 1897. In 1904 the foreshore area The remnant vegetation communities of the Queens Domain and the Cornelian Bay foreshore was declared a recreation reserve and has remained in public ownership ever since. The are fire dependent. This reveals a further link between the Mouheneenner, their land former wetlands also subsequently housed the Rosella (jam) Factory (1927-1995), temporary management practices and the local landscape. Their use of fire as a land management tool accommodation during the 1940’s that was later converted to Stainforth Court, and a caravan has shaped the ecological character of Cornelian Bay in particular the grassed woodlands park adjacent to the public toilets from the 1940s to the 1960s before being converted to their that are contiguous with the Queens Domain. current use as playing fields and the Hockey Centre. Sadly, there is little known of other cultural practices, associations and values that the The first boatsheds were built on the southern shore in the late 1890s and further sheds Mouheneenner and other aboriginal people had with the Bay. continued to be built until the early 1940s. The Cornelian Bay Aquatic Baths were built in the 1920s. 4.1.2 European In 1793 the name Carnelian Bason was given to the Bay by D’Entrecasteaux’s expedition after the carnelian gemstones found on the beach. James Meehan first surveyed the Bay on 26th

Cornelian Bay Management Plan – Draft for Consultation March 2006 12 The Bathymetry of Cornelian Bay: The image below depicts the land, beach, inter-tidal zone (where the seagrass occurs), rocky foreshore and deeper waters where the substrates are comprised of fine silty sediments deposited since European settlement underlain by original sandy coarser grained sediments. Source: “Assessment of 4.2 Environment seabed habitats and sediments in Cornelian Bay.” 2003 TAFI 4.2.1 Climate Cornelian Bay shares Hobart’s temperate maritime climate; its proximity to the sea tends to buffer the temperature, resulting in less extremes. The maximum average temperature varies between 21.6qC in February and 11.6qC in July, while the minimum average varies between 11.9qC in February and 4.5qC in July. Water temperatures range from approximately 16–17oC through summer months to 9-10oC over the winter months. The relatively sheltered embayment experiences prevailing north - westerly winds and is exposed to south-easterly storms. 4.2.2 Geology Cornelian Bay is made up of a mix of geological types. Figure 3 shows the soil geology of the Bay. The beach and low-lying areas to the north are underlain by semi-lithified gravelly and clayey Tertiary age sediments representing the sedimentary infill of a former channel of the (circa 30 – 60 million years ago). “Cornelian Bay Beach is composed of glacially derived sands that were washed down the Derwent River during the last glaciation, then pushed onto the present shoreline as sea level rose following the waning of the last glaciation (circa 10,000 years ago).” “The present beach and former dune were probably established circa 6,500 years ago when sea level stabilised at present level.” (Sharples, “Shoreline Erosion and Coastal Geomorphic Process of Cornelian Bay “, 2003 p. 1). The soil type of the cemetery is comprised of basalt from volcanic activity in Moonah and Lindisfarne that filled in the former channel of the River Derwent. Pipe Clay Point and the cliff face behind the boatsheds is comprised of poorly consolidated sandy sediments with some intrusion of the Jurassic dolerites that make up the Queens Domain. The soil types, specifically swamp deposits, underlying the former wetland are known to be associated with Potential Acid Sulphate Soils (PASS). When exposed to air the iron sulphides in these soils break down into sulphuric acid, which corrodes concrete, iron, steel, and some aluminium alloys, as well as impacting on vegetation and fauna. Further investigation is required to determine whether or not they are present. 4.2.3 Geomorphology Cornelian Bay is a sheltered, enclosed embayment, containing a pocket beach, subject to prevailing north - westerly winds that blow down the River Derwent Valley. It is comprised of a broad inter-tidal zone that is exposed at low tides, and a narrow sandy shoreline. It experiences a tidal range from 0.3 to 1.6m, exposing approximately up to 150 metres of the inter-tidal zone on low tides. The shoreline experiences a “gentle littoral long shore drift in a north/north-easterly direction along the beach.” (Sharples, 2003 p.24). The Bay’s shape and structure result in the circulation and retention of sand within the system, unlike other River Derwent shorelines such as Long Beach, Sandy Bay, that experience sand loss through longshore drift.

The shoreline (wave cut) erosion is the result of the removal of significant quantities of sand during the 1940s (World War II) for sand-bagging purposes. It is also considered that in Inter-tidal zone exposed on a low tide. recent times this may have been exaggerated by rising sea levels. There has only been “a slow build-up of silty sediment (and thus, a slight shallowing of the Bay) in the deeper central part of the Bay” (Sharples 2003 p.26). The recent report by Sharples, Dec 2004, “Indicative mapping of Coastal Vulnerability to Climate Change and Sea Level Rise”, prepared for the State Government, identifies the Bay’s open sandy shores backed by low sand plains, as a coastal form vulnerable to erosion and recession due to predicted sea level rise. Cornelian Bay is consistent with this description of Vulnerable Shorelines. Wave cut erosion of the shoreline at Cornelian Bay

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N 100 metres CORNELIAN BAY GEOLOGY / SOILS* ndifferentiated fluviatile & swamp upra-basalt moderately lithified Dolerite *Source: Hobart - Geology Landslide Hazard Series Mineral Resources Tasmania Sheet 2 Feb. 2005 MANAGEMENT PLAN 0 fine - gravel includes deposits related to Quaternary man made deposits Quaternary colluvium Quaternary - modern shore faceaeolian & dune associated sand Tertiary s conglomerate with interbedded sandstone at places, clasts of wellcobbles rounded & siliceous pebbles, of Tertiary& derived rarely silica, of dolerite. Tertiary u deposits of poorly-consolidated to unconsolidated sand, clayey labile sandsilt & with wood pieces &places cross-bedding & at interbedded subordinate clay minor probable former course of Derwentsurficial River, swamp deposits & supra-basalt sand. Tertiary transitional olivine basalt Tertiary poorly-consolidated white siltstone, sandstone & claystone with Tertiary fossil flora. Jurassic Figure 3 Point

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BROOKER SELFS Park Rugby Sports Grounds BELL 4.2.4 Water and Sediment Quality Cornelian Bay Recreational Water Quality Overall the quality of sediment and water is contiguous with those within the middle section of the Derwent Estuary, in that the silt-laden sediments have high levels of heavy metal contamination (quite often exceeding health guidelines) and the water quality is generally 1100 poor. This is principally a legacy of historical industrial practices, sewage discharge practices and clearing of the vegetation for urban 1000 development and other diffuse stormwater sources associated with coastal urbanisation. 900 800 700 Heavy metal analyses of Cornelian Bay’s surface and sub-surface sediments by Jordan et al in 2003, revealed that heavy metal 600 contamination is a problem in the deeper part of the Bay, where fine silty sediments occur, with the highest concentrations occurring at a 500 depth of 10cm. Heavy metal concentrations in the near shore coarser sandy sediments typically are within the acceptable range, although 400 lead and mercury occur towards the upper limit of acceptable levels (where adverse effects are expected for 10% of biota) but are below 300 levels which pose a human health risk. Disturbance of sediments can result in resuspension and redeposition of contaminated sediments. 200 Enterococci CFU/100ml Given the marginal (heavy metal) quality, disturbance of the inshore sediments should be minimised. This is consistent with the findings and 100 current direction advocated by the Derwent Estuary Program, whereby a management approach of retaining contaminated sediments in 0 situ and minimising their disturbance is encouraged (C. -Coughanwr). 1998 1999 2001 2002 2004 2005 2006 Year Cornelian Bay, although not a designated swimming beach, is included in the Council’s annual Recreational Water Quality Monitoring 1 . Program that samples enterococci levels from November through to March Where samples are above 33 CFU/100 ml a resample is taken The Australian Guidelines for Recreational Use of and where a sample exceeds 250 CFU/100ml designated Water Quality for primary (swimming) contact swimming beaches are closed. Typically, results for Cornelian Bay do not meet the necessary standard for primary recreation in marine waters are exceeded by samples contact (see graph this page) and as such should continue not to be a designated swimming beach. In January 2006, following advice of 33 Enterococci per 100ml. Note since 1999 there from the DEP and the State Director of Public Health, a sign was erected at the beach indicating that monitoring had shown that were an additional 9 samples that exceeded 2000 Enterococci CFU/100 ml – not shown on the above the water quality was not suitable for swimming. graph due to limitation of scale and depiction.

To begin to address the issue of sediment and water quality within the Bay the Council installed a stormwater bio retention and sediment trap, as part of Riverworks funded project “Cornelian Bay an Integrated Approach to Stormwater Treatment”. The bio retention trap treats stormwater from the urban sub catchment of New Town that includes the Council Depot “Cleary’s Gates” and sections of the Brooker Highway that discharge to Cornelian Bay. 4.2.5 Vegetation: Terrestrial and Aquatic

Aquatic Vegetation A survey of Cornelian Bay’s benthic habitats , (i) (ii) conducted by Jordan et al in 2003, identified two species of sea grasses: Zostera tasmanica and Zostera muelleri in the inter-tidal zone. Zostera tasmanica forms the dominant species whilst Z. muelleri is limited to the inner margins of the inter- tidal zone, and is the only known occurrence in the Derwent Estuary. Generally, seagrass “beds” occur in the inter-tidal and sub-tidal zones of i ii relatively shallow, sheltered inshore areas on soft Distichilis distichophylla (Australian Salt grass), and sediments consisting of any combination of sand Isolepsis nodosa (Knobby club rush). These salt and mud. Seagrass is recognised as playing an tolerant species play an important role in stabilising the shoreline and protecting it from erosion. Photographs of (i) seagrass, Zostera tasmanica, and (ii) seagrass important role in stabilisation of wrack at Cornelian Bay foreshore. Although at times considered sediments/substrates, nutrient recycling, habitat unsightly and smelly seagrass wrack plays an important role in for aquatic organisms and shelter and protection for juvenile fish from predation. Jordan et enhancing diversity of vegetation, providing structure that helps to al noted an abundance of algal epiphyte, associated with the presence of excessive Photograph of the bio retention stormwater treatment systems installed reduce erosion, increasing biomass and habitat for benthic fauna nutrients in middle of the Bay. Other than the seagrass, un-vegetated habitats are the most to reduce sediment and pollution loads entering the Bay via stormwater (Chapman et al). It is also noted as food, shelter and nesting habitat discharges from the adjacent urban catchment for shorebirds( Fairweather et al). dominant habitat type within the Bay

1 The “Australian Guidelines for Recreational Water Use Of Water” published by the National Health and Medical Research Council uses levels of “enterococci” as a microbiological faecal indicator of the presence of human or animal faecal material at levels that are deemed unsuitable for primary or secondary contact activities .

Cornelian Bay Management Plan – Draft for Consultation March 2006 14 Terrestrial Vegetation While most of the coastal endemic vegetation associated with the Bay has historically been cleared and disturbed, there are still areas of remnants of endemic plant communities and individual flora specimens. Four of the five threatened species in Cornelian Bay are known to occur in the foreshore area. (See Figure 4 Vegetation/Habitat for their general location.) In a report to Council, Gray (2002) describes Cornelian Bay’s native vegetation as representing remnants of coastal foreshore vegetation and one of the very few remaining examples of the type of vegetation along the River Derwent foreshore2. He also identified four distinct sites, based on the vegetation present, terrain and soil type. These are outlined in the following table. Unfortunately coastal vegetation associated with the now filled wetland behind the sandy pocket beach has been significantly modified and/or lost. With the exception of the hardy and salt tolerant species of Distichilis distichophylla (Australian Salt grass), and Isolepsis nodosa (Knobby club rush) fringing the shoreline, no remnants have been observed in this area. Much of the remnant coastal vegetation is degraded and suffering from weed invasion, senescence and altered (lack) fire regime for regeneration purposes.

Table 1. Summary of four distinct coastal vegetation communities identified in Cornelian Bay Site Location Surveyed (dominant) vegetation species present Comment (Refer Fig.4) Eucalyptus viminalis (White Gum) dominant Acacia mearnsii (Black Wattle) The plant community on the site is a grassy Eucalyptus viminalis (White Gum) community. Many of the white gums at the site are in Bursaria spinosa (Prickly Box) poor condition. The site also contains Acacia mearnsii (Black Wattle), Bursaria spinosa (Prickly Box) and Allocasuarina verticillata 1 Cornelian Bay Point Allocasuarina verticillata (Weeping She Oak) (Weeping She Oak) as shrub species, again many of these plants are in poor condition. An extensive range of weeds is also present on the site, especially between the cliff face and the walking track. Austrodanthonia popinensis (Roadside Wallaby Grass) Austrostipa (Spear grass 2 species)

Eucalyptus viminalis (White Gum) dominant Dominated by E.viminalis with a few specimens of Eucalyptus pulchella / amygdalina (White Peppermint / Black Peppermint). The 2 Cornelian Bay Point to Beach Eucalyptus pulchella White Peppermint larger trees in this area are all showing clear signs of senescence. The understorey is dominated by densely crowned shrubs of Eucalyptus amygdalina (Black Peppermint) specimens Dodonea viscosa (Native Hop). The overall species richness in this remnant is low with fewer than eighteen native species present. Allocasuarina verticillata (Weeping She Oak), Dodonaea viscosa (Native Hop), Dominated by Allocasuarina verticillata (Weeping She Oak), Dodonaea viscosa (Native Hop), and Bursaria spinosa (Prickly Box) and Bursaria spinosa (Prickly Box) with a few scattered Eucalyptus viminalis (White Gums). Native grasses are common in the area. A small daisy, Brachyscombe 3 Pipe Clay Point sieberi var. gunnii that is considered to be endemic to Tasmania and likely to be classified as RARE was found on this site. Eucalyptus viminalis (White Gums). , Examples of the coastal plant Atriplex (Salt Bush) were found here, they do not appear to belong to any species currently recorded Brachyscombe sieberi var. gunnii in Tasmania. Atriplex (Salt Bush).

Dodonaea viscosa (Native Hop) Narrow strip of vegetation on a steep slope lying between the railway line and the Cornelian Bay boatsheds . The most common 4 Pipe Clay Point to Pocket Beach. Bursaria spinosa (Prickly Box) plant species occurring are Dodonaea viscosa (Native Hop) and Bursaria spinosa (Prickly Box). The site is dominated by a range of Eurospermum dalechampii weeds with the aggressively invasive Eurospermum dalechampii that is an escapee from the Botanical Gardens being very common.

4.2.6 Fauna: Aquatic and Terrestrial

The natural coastal setting of Cornelian Bay supports a variety of native wildlife. Habitats include its rocky foreshores, tidal flat, cliffs, pocket beach and dry woodland remnants. It is the existence of these ecosystems and native wildlife that contribute to the community’s valuing and appreciation of the Bay, and ultimately the community’s desire to protect and enhance the Bay. Given its location, Cornelian Bay is unique. It provides, within a city setting, habitat opportunities for native [endemic] fauna such as possums, bandicoots, swift parrots, silver gulls, herons, black swans, pelicans, invertebrates, native water rats, skinks, lizards, bats and so on. Analysis of long core samples, taken during an assessment of the seabed habitats and heavy metals in Cornelian Bay, show a range of bivalve shells including those of commercial scallops and native oysters, in the lower section of the core. It is suspected that these have become extinct from the Bay due to the sedimentation that has occurred throughout the Estuary since European settlement. Recent studies indicate that sediments are highly contaminated with heavy metals, and although they were thought to be devoid of life, they are in fact biologically active. Further work is required to Black Swan, Cygnus atratus photographed at develop an understanding of the marine and inter-tidal ecological processes. The Derwent Estuary Penguin Project, “Recommendations and Cornelian Bay Management, Guidelines 2006,” identified an extinct Little Penguin Eudyptula minor colony in Cornelian Bay, that, anecdotally, was in use up until 2002.

2 Gray, A. “A survey of Remnant Vegetation and Weed Species, Shoreline, Cornelian Bay.” February 2002. p 3.

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Sea grass beds

BROOKER Carpark 2 Terrestrial Vegetation

Sports Mark Boat Ramp Identified Coastal Vegetation Grounds Community (see Table 1 in 4.2.5) Euc. globulus Swift Parrot Habitat Water Cornelian Sports Bay Hedge

WALK Restaurant Grounds Grass open space (exotic) Low Native vegetation (endemic)

Playground Mix of open space native & exotic plantings

Threatened species (indicative o f BELL Approx. occurrence):

Austrodanthonia prosera - tall wallaby-grass STREET Toilets Austrostipa nodosa - knotty speargrass Austrostipa bigeniculata - double-jointed speargrass Lepidium pseudotasmanicum - shade peppercress 4 Vittadinia muelleri - narrowleaf new-holland daisy

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Area included in metres Queens Domain Management Plan VEGETATION / HABITAT Table 2: Indicative Cornelian Bay ecosystems and the native wildlife they support. (Note the table is not a definitive list of species of native wildlife that occurs in the embayment)

Ecosystem Native Wildlife Rocky foreshore / cliffs Sponges, sea anemones and crustaceans, amphipods, isopods, crabs, barnacles, molluscs, gastropods, bivalves, chitons, sea squirts echinoderms, tubeworms. Tidal flat Crabs, bivalves, nursery to fish, foraging habitat for water and shore birds (i.e. herons, cormorants, gulls, swans, pelicans) Pocket beach Amphipods (i.e. beach hoppers), crabs, shore and shore and water birds i.e. Black Swans, pelicans, Silver Gulls, plovers Possums, native rats, bandicoots, bushland birds – parrots, honeyeaters, wattlebirds, robins, Shrike thrush. Note: the endangered Swift parrot, Lathamus discolour, forages for nectar in the blue gums on the boundary of the cemetery Dry woodland and the foreshore.

Cornelian Bay Bushcare Group Bird Watch Activities were taken by expert birdwatchers. The area of Cornelian Bay studied included Cornelian Bay Point around the foreshore to the Botanical Gardens boundary. Table 3 Bird List Cornelian Bay

28/9/03 – 3/10/05 20/11/05 26/9/04 – Bird watch led by Kerryn Bird Watch led by Bird Watch led by Bird watch led by Juliet Herman and Jo Chapple (HCC Dennis Abbott Dennis Abbott Chapman (HCC) (Tas Unit) and Kerry Heatley)

Birds seen: Birds seen: Birds Seen Birds seen:

Hoary headed Grebe Pacific Gull Australian Pelican Australian Magpie Oacific Gull Little Pied Cormorant Pied Oystercatcher (x Noisy Minor Little Pied Cormorant Kelp Gull 5 feeding on grassed Welcome Swallow Kelp Gull Silver Gull area near restaurant) Masked Lapwing Pacific Black Duck Noisy Minor Kelp Gull Eastern Rosella Silver Gull Eastern Rosella Pacific Black Duck Yellow Wattlebird Noisy Minor Masked Lapwing Silver Gull Grey Fantail Eastern Rosella Autsralian Magpie Mallard Silver Gull Masked Lapwing (on Pied Oystercatcher Yellow Wattlebird Striated Pardalote nest) Ducks ( Mallards, Eastern Rosella Spotted Pardalote Welcome Swallow Pacific, hybrids, blacks Noisy Minor Australian Magpie and white) Musk Lorikeet Superb Fairy-wren Musk Lorikeet Forest Ravens Brown Thornbill Pacific Black Duck Yellow Wattlebird Little Wattlebird Grey Fantail Grey Fantail Brown Thornbill Spotted Pardalote Crescent Honeyeater Striated Pardalote Striated Pardalote European Goldfinch Common Blackbird Silvereye Tasmanian Thornbill Grey Fantail Superb Fairy-wren Pelicans, Pied Oyster Catchers and Silver Gulls, Cornelian Bay Foreshore 2003. Black Swan Swift Parrot Welcome Swallow Photograph David Tarbath CBWG. Common Starling Common Blackbird Common Starling

Birds heard only: Birds heard only: Birds heard only: Birds heard only: Striated Pardalote Spotted Pardalote Masked Lapwing Brown Thornbill Black Cockatoo

Extinct: Cornelian Bay Seastar - Marginaster littoralis

In 1970 a researcher at the Tasmanian Museum decided that a small, blue-green seastar, which lived off Cornelian Bay, was actually a new species. It had been overlooked previously because of the presence of the very similar New Zealand green seastar, Patiriella regularis. This species invaded south-eastern Tasmania in the early 1900s, and had already pushed most of the small local seastar species out of the Derwent River estuary. The new seastar was named Marginaster littoralis because its natural habitat was in the littoral zone, just in or below low tide level. The headland of Cornelian Bay, and the old Powder Jetty on the Hobart Domain, were the only places in the world where this seastar could be found. It was therefore an endemic seastar. However, over the next ten years or so, numbers fell dramatically, and by the 1980s there was confusion as to whether it still lived in the area. Searches revealed a small population of specimens, which appeared to have the characteristics of both M.littoralis and P.regularis, but this presented genetic questions still not answered. In 1994 a grant was issued to study whether M. littoralis still existed, but despite extensive research work carried out in the area, no definite specimens of the species were found. During this time, the voracious introduced northern Pacific seastar, Asterias amurensis, gradually invaded the area as well.

Cornelian Bay Management Plan – Draft for Consultation March 2006 16 4.3 Land Tenure 4.3.1 Zones [from the 4.3.2 Services Planning Scheme] Services, including stormwater, sewer and water supply, are The area covered by the Management Plan is a mixture located within the foreshore area of Cornelian Bay. These of Hobart City Council owned and Crown (State) Land. The land within the area covered by the are shown in attached Figure 6. Services. Figure 5 shows a breakdown of the land tenures as follows: Management Plan to high tide is zoned “Recreation” under the City of Hobart Planning Scheme 1982. The 4.3.3 Use ¾ Cornelian Bay Point to Selfs Point – unallocated “objective of the recreation zone is to continue to Crown land; the Council currently has application to provide areas of natural bushland and facilities for As indicated in Figure 7 - Existing Use Areas, Cornelian lease portion of this land passive and visual recreation and enjoyment of Bay accommodates a range of uses, such as residents, workforce and visitors to Hobart, and to recreational uses i.e. hockey fields, playground, ¾ Cornelian Bay Point to “Boatramp” Car park – accommodate various utility services where picnic/bbq area, walking tracks and dog exercise areas. Crown Land vested with HCC, which technically necessary, by eventual public ownership.” It also has a restaurant, residential areas associated with expired on 01.11.05 # Bell Street Bellevue Parade, and private uses such as the See Figure 5 Land Tenure and Zones boatsheds and Aquatic Club. ¾ Boatramp Car Park to the Boatsheds - Crown Land vested with HCC, which technically expired on The preparation of a new Planning Scheme, Figure 8 indicates the proposed broad use of various 01.11.05. Note: this parcel includes the inter-tidal structured on the mandatory State Government parts of the foreshore area proposed in the zone # template, will need to consider the ramifications of Management Plan. the Management Plan for statutory planning. ¾ Boatsheds to Pipe Clay Point – owned by Hobart City Council and forms part of the Queens Domain

¾ Boatshed Car Park – Crown Land leased to Pacific National and forms part of railway reserve. Note: includes site of former railway cottage/station # Note : this arrangement will be reviewed as part of the Crown Land assessment and Clarification Project (CLAC), which was programmed to commence its assessment in the Hobart municipality in February 2006

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Queens Walk - collector road LAND TENURE regulated by Dept. of Infrastructure Energy & Resources; and maintained by Hobart City Council Crown Land leased to HCC Track

Crown Land - temp. Licence to HCC

Cornelian Bay Crematorium Point HCC owned

QUEENS Crown Land leased to Tasrail

Sports BROOKER Carpark PLANNING/ZONING Grounds

Sports Mark Boat Ramp Recreation Zone Grounds (City of Hobart Planning Scheme 1982)

Water Residential 1 Zone (City of Hobart Planning Scheme 1982)

WALK Restaurant Cornelian Bay

Low HCC municipal area extends to Low Water Mark Playground

Approx. Low Water Mark

BELL Approx. Area included within Queens Domain Management Plan STREET Toilets

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PARADE 0 100 200 Railway Line Boat Sheds metres

Pipe Clay Point N

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Area included in LAND TENURE & ZONES Queens Domain Management Plan 150 mm RCP 150mm

ROAD CICL 450mm HDPE

Rugby 50mm DICL DICL 375mm GI Park 150mm

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Cornelian Bay CORNELIAN BAY Cemetery 450mm HDPE MANAGEMENT PLAN

L SELFS IC RCP D m m 5 7 3 100mm 300mm DICL

300mm 375mm RCP

450mm HDPE

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Crematorium Cornelian Bay 150 mm CONC

0 mRCP mm 300 HDPE450mm Point

675mm SERVICES QUEENS

100mm MS 150mm PVC DICL 375mm 675mm 50mm 450mm CU RCP 100mm 225mm RCP MS Sewer line 450mm HDPE DICL CONC BROOKER Carpark 225 mm RCP 450mm approx positionRCP only 225mm 450mm

Sports Mark Boat Ramp Water supply line Grounds Sports

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Grounds Water Cornelian 450mm HDPE WALK 100mm

uPVC Bay Stormwater line Restaurant 150mm Stormwater 50mm 375mm DICL Bio-retention CU Filtration Unit 675mm Low RCP MS 750mm Playground

RCP 450mm HDPE 100mm 300 mm RCP W DICL 300mm EST DERW 750mm 750mm RCP 225mm 150mm 300mm RCP ENT PIPELINE PVC 100mm m PVC 150 mm EW 100mm 750m 750mm DICL Approx. BELL 100mm

300mm 100mm RCP DICL 100mm Toilets ST DICL 150 mm EW PVC 150 mm CONC 150 mm 100mm 150 mm RCP 100mm 300mm DICL 50mm 760:1 CICL \ CU 675mm 450mm HDPE 100mm BELLEVUE 100mm 100mm DICL

MS AVENUE CI 450mm PVC CICL 150 mm PVC DICL RCP 100mm 760:3 PDE 50mm 150m 100mm m 0 100 200 CICL 22 DRAIN 5mm 225mm

3 00mm P C R Boat

450mm mm Railway Line 375 Sheds 300mm metres PVC RCP 450mm Exact loc’n RCP Pipe Clay unknown 300mm 375mm DICL RCP 50mm Point 450mm HDPE 300mm OPEN DRAIN RCP N OPEN DRAIN OPEN DRAIN

760:4 Track 300mm OPEN DRAIN RCP Cycleway 450mm HDPE 300m

RCP RCP 300mm m DOMAIN 300mm RCP 300mm RCP HIGHWAY Figure 6 600mm MSCL

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Off-leash dog exercise area BROOKER Carpark

Boat Ramp Bushland Sports Mark ()Area managed by Bushland & Reserves Unit

Grounds Boat ramp car park Formal recreation Sports Water Cornelian Queens Walk car park Grounds Bay Commercial

WALK Restaurant

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Playground Carpark Playground car park

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Playing fields car park STREET Toilets

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Area included in Queens Domain Management Plan EXISTING USE AREAS 200

N 100 metres CORNELIAN BAY MANAGEMENT PLAN PROPOSED USE AREAS Area landscaped to enhance habitat values, 0 Use Areas - Proposed Cornelian Bay Foreshore Park ( amenity & passive recreation; pluserosion minimise & maintain open space grassed areas) Proposed new Bushland Management Area On-leash Bushland Management Zone Off-leash dog exercise area Boatshed foreshore upgrade Cornelian Bay Traffic Precinct Erosion management Stormwater bioremediation Link pedestrian track Pedestrian/bike track Linking track in proposed Bushland Management Area Cornelian Bay Point Existing track Figure 8 Proposed additional bushland management area & linking track Point Cornelian Bay Point

Track Pipe Clay Bay

Track Cornelian

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Off-leash dog exercise area HIGHWAY Cemetery Remove boat ramp as part of erosion mitigation plan Review car park layout Cornelian Bay

Railway Line Conversion of existing car park to stormwater treatment area New toilet facilities Playground

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WALK ROAD Queens Domain Management Plan

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BROOKER SELFS Park Rugby Sports Grounds BELL 5.0 KEY STAKEHOLDERS Table 3: Key Stakeholders identified through the preparation of the Management Plan include:

Stakeholder Role Interest (indicative) Core Jurisdiction Legislation

Boat Owners Boats on moorings in Cornelian Bay Marine and Safety Act 1997

Boathouse Restaurant Private business Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993 Local Government Act 1993

Boatshed owners / Cornelian Bay Boatsheds use and maintenance Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993 Boatshed Owners Association Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act 1994 Historic Cultural Heritage Act 1995,Crown Land Act 1976

Community/residents Recreational, natural values Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993

Cornelian Bay Bushcare Group A community group actively rehabilitating bushland areas with the support of the Hobart City Council.

Cornelian Bay Working Group Community Group established to assist in the development and implementation of the Cornelian Bay Management Strategy

State Government/Crown Land Crown Land Services - responsible for boatshed, Aquatic Club and slipway licences, land the Crown Land Act 1976 land owner below high water mark

Derwent Estuary Program A joint Local, State, Federal Government initiative to restore and protect the Derwent Estuary

Dog owners Private users Dog Control Act 2000

Hobart City Council Environmental Management Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act 1994 Parks, Open Space, Bushland Management Parks Recreation and Natural Areas By Law Asset Management Stormwater, Roads [Queens Walk] Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993 Planning, Rates, Dog Control Local Government Act 1993,Dog Control Act 2000

Hockey Association Operation and management of the sports fields Local Government Act 1993

MAST Navigational hazards Marine and Safety Act 1997

Police Security Safety Police Offences Act 1935

Southern Regional Cemetery Trust Operation and management of the Cornelian Bay Cemetery Burial and Cremation Act 2002

METRO Public transport – bus route Transport Act 1981

Pacific National Railway Former Cornelian Bay Railway Cottage site and Boatshed Car Park

Tasmanian Aboriginal Land & Sea Aboriginal cultural heritage sites and values Aboriginal Relics Act 1976 Council

Tasmanian Heritage Council Boatsheds, Slip and Aquatic Club Historic Cultural Heritage Act 1995

Traffic DIER Roads: Domain Highway , Brooker Highway Transport Act 1981, Highways Act 1951

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SELFS 22 CURRENT ACTIONS: 1 Foreshore erosion monitoring 2 Relocation & upgrading of public toilets 3 Envirofund Project: Enhancing coastal biodiversity & protecting Aboriginal heritage sites, Cornelian Bay 3 24 20 23 3 24 20 20 Track PROPOSED KEY ACTIONS: 4 Restructure boat ramp car park to minimise erosion 7 5 Install stormwater grass swale Crematorium 6 Remove boat ramp as part of erosion management Cornelian Bay 1 Shoreline erosion management zone - implement measures 21 Point 7 QUEENS 8 Consideration of sand replenishment of the foreshore - as part of 8 shoreline erosion mitigation 12 9 Coastal linking path - ‘off-leash’ area to boat shed car park 1 10 Upgrade & rationalise path to boatsheds. Provide boatshed 4 access to toilet block BROOKER Carpark 11 Install fire hydrant and potable water point for boatsheds 5 Boat Ramp 12 Traffic calming works Queens walk Sports 13 6 13 Resurface car park to reduce sedimentation entering bay Grounds 7 14 Improve bike pedestrian access from bike track to Cornelian Bay 15 Install bike racks at selected locations Sports 9 Cornelian 16 12 Rationalise car parking at parking area for boatsheds Grounds Bay 1 17 Landscaping to increase amenity & passive recreation

WALK Restaurant 18 Removal of trees (nearing end of life cycle) & landscape with natives 15 Playground 19 Installation of seats & interpretation in selected locations 13 20 Bushland ‘on-leash’ area for dogs 8 21 Retain as ‘off-leash’ area for dogs 2 BELL 13 19 22 Coastal rehabilitation of area, subject to finalistion of HCC lease 17 arrangements 12 2 7 STREET 23 Coastal linking of access path to Selfs Point & New Town Rivulet - Toilets 1 subject to HCC finalisation of lease arrangements 18

BELLEVUE 14 19 ONGOING ACTIONS: AVENUE 24 Bushcare activities PARADE 25 Boatshed maintenance & conservation of heritage values 14 13 Boat 16 10 Sheds Railway Line 25 Pipe Clay N Point 3 11

3 10 24 3 Cycleway 0 100 200 Track

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Area included in KEY ACTIONS FOR Queens Domain Management Plan IMPLEMENTATION & STAGING OF WORKS