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Volume 4 - Cumulative Impact Assessment, Environmental Management and References
Chapter 4 - References 1-1
VOLUME 4 - CUMULATIVE IMPACT ASSESSMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND REFERENCES
CHAPTER 4 - REFERENCES
PROJECT SEA DRAGON
STAGE 1 LEGUNE GROW-OUT FACILITY
DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT
Project Sea Dragon
Stage 1 Legune Grow-out Facility
Draft Environmental Impact Statement
Volume 4 - Cumulative Impact Assessment, Environmental Management and References
Chapter 4 - References 4-i
CONTENTS
1 Volume 1 Project Overview ............................................................................ 1
1.1 Table of Contents ................................................................................................... 1
1.2 Introduction ............................................................................................................ 1
1.3 Project Description ................................................................................................. 1
1.4 Approvals, Conditions and Agreements ................................................................. 2
1.5 Water Balance ........................................................................................................ 2
1.6 Project Alternatives ................................................................................................ 2
1.7 Ecologically Sustainable Development................................................................... 2
1.8 Risk Assessment ..................................................................................................... 3
2 Volume 2 Environmental Assessment ............................................................. 4
2.1 Geology, Geomorphology and Soils ....................................................................... 4
2.2 Marine and Estuarine Water .................................................................................. 6
2.3 Freshwater ............................................................................................................. 7
2.4 Groundwater .......................................................................................................... 8
2.5 Terrestrial Flora ...................................................................................................... 8
2.6 Terrestrial Fauna .................................................................................................. 11
2.7 Marine and Estuarine Ecology .............................................................................. 20
2.8 Freshwater Ecology .............................................................................................. 25
2.9 Waste Management ............................................................................................. 26
2.10 Air Quality ............................................................................................................. 27
2.11 Climate and Local Meteorology ........................................................................... 27
2.12 Climate Change Assessment ................................................................................ 27
2.13 Noise and Vibration .............................................................................................. 28
3 Volume 3 Social, Economic and Cultural Assesment ...................................... 29
3.1 Socio-Economic .................................................................................................... 29
3.2 Historic and Cultural Heritage .............................................................................. 29
3.3 Human Health and Safety .................................................................................... 30
3.4 Traffic and Transport ............................................................................................ 31
3.5 Amenity ................................................................................................................ 31
4 Volume 4 Cumulative Impact Assesment, Environmental Management and
References .......................................................................................................... 32
4.1 Cumulative Impacts .............................................................................................. 32
4.2 Environmental Management System ................................................................... 32
4.3 Environmental Management Plan ....................................................................... 32
Project Sea Dragon
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Chapter 4 - References 4-1
1 VOLUME 1 PROJECT OVERVIEW
1.1 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1.2 INTRODUCTION
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1.3 PROJECT DESCRIPTION
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communities in the Northern Territory. Local Government Association of the Northern Territory, effective from
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Moerbeek, DJ, van Dobben, WH, Osieck, ER, Boere, GC and Bungenberg de Jong, CM 1987, ‘Cormorant Damage
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1.4 PROJECT ALTERNATIVES
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1.5 WATER BALANCE
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1.6 APPROVALS, CONDITIONS AND AGREEMENTS
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1.7 ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division 2015, World Population
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1.8 RISK ASSESSMENT
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guidelines. AS/NZS ISO 31000. Available from Australian Standards.
Standards Australia 2009, Construction of buildings in bushfire-prone areas, AS 3959. Available from Australian
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2 VOLUME 2 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
2.1 GEOLOGY, GEOMORPHOLOGY AND SOILS
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(ASS) in Queensland 1998. QASSIT, Department of Natural Resources, Resource Sciences Centre, Indooroopilly.
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Geology and mineral resources of the Northern Territory. Northern Territory Geological Survey, Special
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Geology and mineral resources of the Northern Territory. Northern Territory Geological Survey, Special
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Aurecon 2016, Grow-out farm earthworks field trial. Aurecon Australasia Pty Ltd, Project No. 1545845, Rev 0,
21 July 2016.
Boonsaner, M and Hawker, DW 2012, 'Remediation of saline soil from shrimp farms by three different plants
including soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.), 'Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A (2012) 47,
558–564.
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Territory. Report no. 78232.00.R.001, March 2016.
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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia.
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Dept. Infrastructure, Planning and Environment, Palmerston, NT.
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Thailand for Cultivation of Mauritius Grass (Brachiaria Mutica). Environmental Geochemistry and Health, Vol
25, pp 365–386, 2003.
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Jefferson, TA and Rosenbaum, HC 2014, Taxonomic revision of the humpback dolphins (Sousa spp.) and
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2.8 FRESHWATER ECOLOGY
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2.9 WASTE MANAGEMENT
Donovan 2003, Environmental Code of Practice for Australian Prawn Farmers. Australian Prawn Farmers
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Donovan, DJ 2001, Environmental Code of Practice for Australian Prawn Farmers. September 2001.
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Northern Territory Environmental Protection Authority 2015, Waste management strategy for the Northern
Territory 2015 - 2022. Northern Territory Environmental Protection Authority, July 2015.
2.10 AIR QUALITY
Environmental Protection Authority Victoria (2013) Recommended Separation Distances for Industrial Residual
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modelling and assessment of air pollutants in New South Wales.
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2.11 CLIMATE AND LOCAL METEOROLOGY
Bureau of Meteorology 2008, Climate influences - The Australian monsoon. Available from:
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Geoscience Australia 2011, Seabed habitats and hazards of the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf and Timor Sea, Northern
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Systems Engineering Australia 2016, Legune Station storm tide. Brisbane: Systems Engineering Australia Pty Ltd.
2.12 CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2014, Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of
Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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%20and%20Panels/Coastal%20and%20Ocean%20Engineering/vol_1_web.pdf.
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Systems Engineering Australia 2016, Legune Station storm tide. Brisbane: Systems Engineering Australia Pty Ltd.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 2015, Climate change in Australia.
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2.13 NOISE AND VIBRATION
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3 VOLUME 3 SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL ASSESMENT
3.1 SOCIO-ECONOMIC
ACIL Allen 2016, Project Sea Dragon socio-economic assesment stage 1 - Legune Grow-out Facility. Report to
Seafarms Group Limited. Acil Allen Consulting Pty Ltd, Sydney.
Aquaculture Stewardship Council 2014, ASC Shrimp standard version 1.0. March 2014. Created by the Shrimp
Aquaculture Dialogue March, 2014. Access date: 27 May 2016. Available from: http://www.asc-
aqua.org/upload/ASC%20Shrimp%20Standard_v1.0.pdf.
Australian Bureau of Statistics, undated 2011 census community profile Kununurra, SSC50417. ABS, Canberra.
Available from:
http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2011/communityprofile/SSC50417?op
endocumentandnavpos=220.
Integrated Management Services 2016, Project Sea Dragon workforce planning consultancy services report.
Report to Seafarms Group Limited, Perth.
Joint Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand Committee 2009, Risk management - principles and
guidelines. AS/NZS ISO 31000. Available from Australian Standards.
Kimberley Boab Consulting Pty Ltd 2016, Social impact assessment Project Sea Dragon Stage 1 Grow-out
Facility, Prepared for: CO2 Australia Pty Ltd and Seafarms Pty Ltd.
Kimberley Development Commission 2015, 2036 and beyond: A regional investment blueprint for the
Kimberley, Kimberley Development Commission, Kununurra. Available from http://kdc.wa.gov.au/wp-
content/uploads/2016/08/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley.pdf.
Northern Territory Environmental Protection Authority 2013, Guidelines for the preparation of an economic
and social impact statement.
Northern Territory Environmental Protection Authority 2015, Terms of reference for the preparation of an
environmental impact statement, Project Sea Dragon Stage 1 Legune Grow-out Facility, Project Sea Dragon Pty
Ltd.
Victoria Daly Regional Council July 2015, Timber Creek community plan, Available from:
http://www.victoriadaly.nt.gov.au/documents/10729/14947/Timber%20Creek%20Community%20Plan.pdf.
3.2 HISTORIC AND CULTURAL HERITAGE
Arndt, W 1965, The dreaming of the Kunukban. Oceania XXXV(4): 241-259.
Berndt, R M 1951, Kunapipi, A study of an Australian Aboriginal religious cult. Melbourne, FW Cheshire.
Castine, G 1967, Report on inspection of Legune Station. Darwin, Welfare Branch, NT Administration.
Employment and General Welfare of Aborigines Legune Station CRS F1 66/735: folios 161-187.
Evans, EC 1952, Patrol Report - Leguna Station 25 November. Darwin, Aboriginal Welfare Branch, NT
Administration. Employment and General Welfare of Aborigines Legune Station CRS F1 66/735: folios 68-73.
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Gordon, C and J Buikstra 1981, Soil pH, bone preservation and sampling bias at mortuary sites. American
Antiquity 46(3): 566-571.
Gregory, R 1998, Aboriginal settlement patterns in the Ord-Victoria River region. Northern Territory University.
PhD.
Gregory, R and Sutton, S 1997, Final assessment of the archaeological resources of the Keep River Plain and the
Knox Plain for the Ord stage 2 project. Darwin, NT Department of Industries and Fisheries.
Head, L 1994, Aborigines and pastoralism in North-Western Australia: Historical and contemporary perspectives
on multiple use of the rangelands. Rangelands Journal 16(2): 167-183.
International Council on Monuments and Sites 2013, The Burra charter. Deakin University, ICOMOS.
International Organisation for Standardisation 2009, ISO 31000:2009 Risk management principals and
guidelines. Geneva, International Organisation for Standardisation: 24.
Jones, Judy Marchant, Dolly Bardbarriya†, Eileen Raymond, Doris Roberts, Duncan McDonald†, Dinah
McDonald†, Margaret McDonald, Candide Simard, Colleen Moerkerken and Glenn Wightman 2011, 'Jaminjung,
Ngaliwurru and Nungali plants and animals, Aboriginal flora and fauna knowledge from the Bradshaw and
Judbarra / Gregory National Park Area, North Australia', Northern Territory Botanical Bulletin No. 38. Dept. of
Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport and Diwurruwurru-jaru Aboriginal Corporation / Mimi
Aboriginal Art and Craft, Darwin.
Lewis, D 1996, The boab belt: A survey of historic sites in the North Central Victoria River District, Sites 1-46.
Darwin, Australian National Trust (NT). 1.
Lewis, D 2000, The final muster: A survey of previously undocumented historic sites throughout the Victoria
River District. Darwin, Australian National Trust (NT)
Lewis, D 2012, A wild history – Life and death on the Victoria River Frontier, Monash University Publishing.
Makin, J 1970, The big run: The story of the Victoria River Downs Station. Sydney, Weldon Publishing.
Mansfield J 2011, Simon v Northern Territory of Australia [2011] FCA 575, Federal Court. NTD 9 of 2010.
Martin, F 1980, Three families outback in Australia’s tropical north (reprinted 2007). Perth, Hesperian Press.
McConvell, P and A Palmer 1979, Yingawunarri Mudbura land claim Darwin, Northern Land Council.
Riddett, L 1990, Kine, kin and country: The Victoria River District of the Northern Territory 1911-1966. Darwin
ANU North Australia Research Unit.
Shaw, B 1981, My country of the pelican dreaming. Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
Woolfe, R 2013, Legune Station: Heritage and archaeological desktop review. Prepared for: Western Australian
Resources Limited.
3.3 HUMAN HEALTH AND SAFETY
Department of Health and Families 2011, Guidelines for preventing mosquito breeding associated with
construction practice near tidal areas in the NT, Medical Entomology Branch Centre for Disease Control
Department of Health and Families Northern Territory Government Darwin NT June 1988 Updated February
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2011. Available from:
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Department of Health and Families 2006, Guidelines for preventing mosquito breeding sites associated with
aquaculture developments in the NT, Medical Entomology Branch Centre for Disease Control Department of
Health and Families Northern Territory Government Darwin NT February 2006. Available from:
http://www.health.nt.gov.au/library/scripts/objectifyMedia.aspx?file=pdf/32/43.pdfandsiteID=1andstr_title=G
uidelines%20for%20preventing%20mosquito%20breeding%20sites%20with%20aqua%20culture%20developm
ents.pdf.
Standards Australia 2009, Construction of buildings in bushfire-prone areas, AS 3959. Available from Australian
Standards.
3.4 TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT
Austroads 2015, Guide to Traffic Management Part 2: Traffic Theory.
3.5 AMENITY
No references
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4 VOLUME 4 CUMULATIVE IMPACT ASSESMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND REFERENCES
4.1 CUMULATIVE IMPACTS
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Aquifer Model. Perth. Available at http://www.kai-australia.com.au/public-environment-report
Ecologia. 1997, Ord River Stage 11 M2 Development Area, Terrestrial Biological Assessment. Report published
in Kinhill Pty Ltd, 2000, Ord River Irrigation Area Stage 2, Proposed Development of the M2 Area,
Environmental Review and Management Programme, Draft Environmental Impact Statement. Perth.
Hancock, C. and Ladyman, M, 2011, Sorby Hills Proposed Silver Lead Zinc Mine Flora and Vegetation
Assessment, prepared for Sorby Management Pty Ltd, Perth.
Kimberley Boab Consulting, 2015, Knox Creek Plain, Public Environment Report. Prepared for Kimberley
Agricultural Investment Pty Ltd, Kununurra. Available at http://www.kai-australia.com.au/public-environment-
report
Kinhill Pty Ltd, 1999, Ord Sugar Project, A Vegetation survey to map the vegetation communities of the M2
Development Area of the Ord River Irrigation Scheme, report published in Kinhill Pty Ltd, 2000, Ord River
Irrigation Area Stage 2, Proposed Development of the M2 Area, Environmental Review and Management
Programme, Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
Kinhill Pty Ltd, 2000, Ord River Irrigation Area Stage 2 Proposed Development of the M2 Area - Environmental
Review and Management Programme Draft Environmental Impact Statement. Perth.
Sorby Management Pty Ltd, 2013, Public Environmental Review Sorby Hills Silver Lead Zinc Project. Sorby
Management Pty Ltd, Perth.
4.2 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
No references.
4.3 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN
As the EMP is designed as a stand-alone document all references are contained within (see Volume 4, Chapter
3 and included Appendices).