ATTACHMENT 8 Additional Supplementary Information ATTACHMENT 8N Works Approval Application – Desktop Assessment – Supporting Flora and Fauna Information (Golder, 2017) (1777197-020-R-Rev0) July 2017 Reference No. 1777197-015-L-Rev0 DATE 19 July 2017 REFERENCE No. 1777197-020-M-Rev0 TO Sam Mangione Alkina Holdings Pty Ltd CC FROM Jaclyn Ennis-John EMAIL
[email protected] WORKS APPROVAL APPLICATION – DESKTOP ASSESSMENT SUPPORTING FLORA AND FAUNA INFORMATION 1.0 INTRODUCTION This technical memorandum presents a desktop summary of publicly available flora and fauna assessment information for the Great Southern Landfill Site. The Great Southern Landfill Site, outside York, Western Australia, was previously referred to as Allawuna Farm Landfill (AFL), and a Works Approval Application (WAA) was prepared by SUEZ and granted by the Department of Environment Regulation (DER) (now the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation, DWER) on 17 March 2016; it was subsequently withdrawn by SUEZ. The WAA by SUEZ is publicly available on the DWER website. 2.0 PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION 2.1 WAA data The supporting works approval application provided the following information related to flora and fauna: Allawuna Landfill Vegetation and Fauna Assessment, ENV Australia Pty Ltd (October, 2012) (provided in Attachment A) 2.2 Summary of Information 2.2.1 Flora Golder (2015) summarised: A comprehensive Level 2 flora investigation of the proposed landfill area was undertaken by ENV Australia (2012) (Appendix K). The proposed landfill footprint differs to that considered in the flora assessment, although not significantly. The results and conclusions contained in the 2012 Vegetation and Fauna Assessment Report remain valid for the proposed landfill.