Review of Environmental Factors: Potato Point fire buffer construction works (Stage 2) Eurobodalla National Park

Requests to address the bushfire risk to Potato Point Village resulted in the commissioning of this review of environmental factors, along with a species impact statement and a fire risk assessment.

This work forms stage 2 of fire buffer construction work at Potato Point. Stage 1 was approved and conducted in 2013 on land closer to the village

The reports sought relevant environmental approvals for proposed vegetation clearing to create a fire buffer in Eurobodalla National Park. The fire buffer would aim to provide bushfire protection for Potato Point village and protect environmental values including to:

• reduce fuel loads in close proximity to Potato Point village
• maintain asset protection zones and strategic fire advantage zones
• maintain fire trails
• protect the core Swamp Oak Forest Endangered Ecological Community within the works area
• protect SEPP14 wetland number 136 and associated drainage lines
• retain habitat critical to the survival of the endangered striated fieldwren
• protect the threatened white-footed dunnart
• retain known foraging habitat of the vulnerable glossy black cockatoo.

This review of environmental factors, along with a species impact statement and fire risk assessment, were commissioned by OEH and formed part of a public consultation held from 28 April to 27 May 2014.

Related documents

Documents relating to the proposed enhanced fire buffer at Potato Point:

• Species Impact Statement: Potato Point Buffer Construction Works (Stage 2), Eurobodalla National Park, Far South Coast Region 
  (PDF 5MB)
  • Appendices A (Director-General requirements), B (Flora species recorded in the study area), C (Fauna species recorded in the study area), E (Qualifications and experience of personnel) (PDF 4.9MB)
  • Appendix D (Raw field data sheets) (PDF 37MB)
• Potato Point Bushfire Risk Assessment (PDF 4.5MB)
• Submissions Report: Proposed Fire Buffer Construction Works (Stage 2), Eurobodalla National Park, Far South Coast Region (PDF 3.2MB)
• Review of Environmental Factors Determination Report: Potato Point Fire Buffer Stage 2, Eurobodalla National Park (PDF 321KB)
• Concurrence Report: Potato Point Stage 2 (PDF 1MB).