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State of the Environment Report OBERON COUNCIL STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT REPORT FOR THE PERIOD 01/07/07 TO 30/06/08 STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Aims and Objectives 1.3 The Report Format 1.4 General Area Description 1.5 Environmental Legislation SECTION 2 CURRENT STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT 2.1 Population 2.2 Climate 2.3 Bio-Diversity SECTION 3 IDENTIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT OF POPULATED AREAS 3.1 Land 3.2 Air 3.3 Water 3.4 Noise 3.5 Waste SECTION 4 IDENTIFICATION OF PRESSURES ON THE ENVIRONMENT 4.1 Forestry 4.2 Agrigulture 4.3 Urban Growth and Development 4.4 Natural Disaster/Hazards 4.5 Recreation and Tourism 4.6 Energy 4.7 Transport 4.8 Industry and Manufacturing 4.9 Mining/Quarrying SECTION 5 SPECIAL COUNCIL PROJECTS RELATING TO THE ENVIRORNMENT AND THE IMPACT OF COUNCIL’S ACTIVITIES 5.1 Threatened Species and Recovery Plans 5.2 Environmental Restoration Project 5.3 Vegetation Cover and Vegetation Instruments 5.4 The Role of Council’s Local Environmental Plan (LEP) 1998 5.5 Generation and Management of Solid Waste SECTION 6 COUNCIL AND COMMUNITY RESPONSES AND IMPACTS 6.1 Draft Environmental Management Strategies H:\Development Department\SOE Reports\State of Env Report 2007-8.doc 2 1.1 INTRODUCTION Every action and decision of Council can impact on the local, regional and global environments. The Oberon Council recognises that the community needs to review and change traditional attitudes and behaviour if we are to improve environmental quality and make progress towards sustainable development. To do this we need to easily understand readily available and widely disseminated environmental information on which to base these changes. However, the environment itself is always changing either naturally or due to the stresses placed on it by all of us. Understanding these changes in the environment, their trends, causes and impacts is what State of Environment Reporting is all about. It is a way of knowing whether our environment is getting better or worse. If done well, it will help us understand what is happening and whether our responses are working. The revision of the Oberon Local Environmental Plan has considered the pressures for development and also takes advantage of current and future opportunities for sustainable development within the Local Government Area (LGA). The Local Government Act 1993-Section 428(2) (c) requires councils to prepare annual reports that includes a report as to the state of the environment in that area, and in particular in relation to the following environmental sectors: • Land • Air • Water • Bio-diversity • Waste • Noise • Aboriginal heritage • Non aboriginal heritage • Management Plans relating to the environment • Special Council projects relating to the environment • The environmental impact of Council activities This report relates to the period 1/7/06 to 30/6/07.Oberon Council has also participated with 16 other Councils of the Greater Central West Region of NSW in the preparation of a Comprehensive Regional State of the Environment Report for the period 2008-2009. 1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The Oberon Council, via the State of the Environment Report, has the following overall objectives: • To educate the local community, the Council, business and developers about their local environment and how it is affected by human activities • To inform the community, the Council, business and developers of the activities of Council, Government, industry and the community, aimed at restoring the environment • To ensure that the Council area's environment is preserved and enhanced whilst making real progress towards sustainable development To achieve the aforementioned objectives, the ongoing annual State of the Environment Report will provide the public, decision-makers and Government with regular sound information about the status and condition of the environment by: • commenting on environmental pressures and stresses • assessing the present and future impacts of these stresses by reporting trends in environmental change • assessing progress towards achieving ecological sustainability H:\Development Department\SOE Reports\State of Env Report 2007-8.doc 3 • reporting on the effectiveness of policies and programmes responding to environmental change, including progress towards achieving environmental standards and targets • providing input into the development of long term, ecologically sustainable economical and social policies by all spheres of Government • identifying gaps in our knowledge of environmental conditions and trends 1.3 THE REPORT FORMAT This State of the Environment Report is based on the rationale that the environment interacts with the state of the economy. Human activities impose pressures on the environment whilst winning natural resource inputs. The state of the environment also depends on the management of the environment through appropriate economic and regulatory responses. • What do we know about the state of the local environment and our natural resource assets? What changes and trends are occurring? • Why is it happening? What causes and stresses are making it happen? • What are we doing about it? What are our management responses? • A summary of the programmes and activities being undertaken as a response to problems in the Oberon area. This report is considered to be a step in an evolving process. The document is meant to be dynamic and will be amended in time to be more informative, user friendly and increasingly beneficial with each production. Essentially, in preparing the initial report in 1993, Council: • Looked at its existing sources of data first • Identified areas or gaps where information is not found • Where information has not been found, the current status is assessed as best as possible • Consulted Government bodies, authorities, community groups and industries who may be able to provide useful data on any environmental indicator This State of the Environment Report has been prepared in six (6) basic parts: Section 1 Introduction Section 2 Current State of the Environment A brief description of the natural resource assets - the land, air and water. This is a discussion based around the interpretation of suggested environmental indicators chosen for the Oberon Council area. It includes, with limitations, the geographic location and the extent and condition of the following themes as listed in the Act under the theme of bio-diversity: • Unique landscape and vegetation cover • Important wildlife and habitat corridors • Threatened Species Section 3 Identification and Management of Polluted Areas This includes, with limitations, identification of current and potential pressures or threats to the environment due to the various types of human activities. These pressures are related back to the following themes in the Act: • Polluted areas – land, air, water and noise • Special Council projects and environmental impact of Council activities H:\Development Department\SOE Reports\State of Env Report 2007-8.doc 4 Section 4 Identification of Pressures on the Environment This section discusses the history and benefits of identified natural and unnatural activities within the shire known to place pressure on the environment. Section 5 Special Council Projects Relating to the Environment and the Impact of Councils Activities This section details projects and initiatives undertaken by the Council which may impact upon the local and regional environment, and projects in place to help preserve and maintain the environment. Section 6 Council and Community Responses to Impacts This section describes actions taken by Council, and the local community in general, to deal with the known impact which human activities are having on the environment and to provide, as far as possible, an assessment of the effectiveness of these policies. Responses could include the following themes: • Waste management policies and strategies • Any environmental restoration projects • Any vegetation cover related instruments or policies • Stormwater Management Plans This report has not identified trends through time impacting on the environment of the Oberon Council area. It provides the baseline from which trends identified in the future can be prepared. Through time, appropriate indicators could be identified by Council if it chooses to do so. Data gathered could be entered on a database, readily able to be updated and manipulated. Knowing about the state of the local environment is a crucial prerequisite/tool which enables broader environmental management. The local and regional state of the environment is a corporate responsibility to be recognised by Council and its staff and is an important consideration in all Council policies, decisions and works. H:\Development Department\SOE Reports\State of Env Report 2007-8.doc 5 1.4 GENERAL AREA DESCRIPTION AND BRIEF HISTORY The Council Development Department prepared a Thematic History of Oberon as part of the community based Heritage Study in 2003. This book, prepared by Philippa Gemmell-Smith, is an interesting and informative document. The Oberon Local Government Area is located in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales on the Great Dividing Range,196kms west of Sydney. The Local Government Area is on both the eastern and western falls of the Great Dividing Range of NSW. It is approximately 2½ hours by road from Sydney. Forestry, agriculture, mining and tourism are the main industries throughout the LGA. Much of the area is considered to be sub-alpine with The Oberon township 1113 metres above sea level. The Local Government Area adjoins the local government areas of Bathurst Regional, Blue Mountains City, Upper Lachlan Shire, Lithgow City and Wollondilly Shire. Following an inquiry conducted in 2004, the new Oberon Council was proclaimed on 26 May 2004 and commenced operations on 26 May 2004. The total area of the new LGA has increased from 2925km² to 3660km², an increase in total land area of approximately 25%. The most significant area of this is the new south-western sector of the LGA, encompassing Burraga and Mount David, which were formerly part of Evans Shire. The former Evans Shire is a region of national historical importance, being the first settled farming and grazing area in Australia west of Parramatta.
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