Floodplain plan to start shortly

A floodplain risk management study and plan is expected to be prepared for the Peninsula in the coming months, according to a report to Gosford Council.

The study is expected to assess the impacts of flooding on the Peninsula from Brisbane Water foreshore flooding and also from overland flows from the Woy Woy Peninsula area.

A report was prepared by council staff as part of the council's consideration of its new planning scheme.

It stated that staff would review the Local Environment Plan once it had completed a number of investigations and had resolved its strategic direction in response to climate change.

The report stated that the Woy Woy Flood Study had just been completed and would be used in the preparation of the Woy Woy Peninsula Floodplain Risk Management Study and Plan.

This would start after the Brisbane Water Foreshore Floodplain Risk Management Study and Plan was completed.

Other investigations included the Brisbane Water Foreshore Flood Risk Management Study and Plan and the Brisbane Water Estuary Management Plan, as well as the Woy Woy Peninsula Floodplain Risk Management Study and Plan.

The Brisbane Water Foreshore Floodplain Risk Management Study and Plan was anticipated to reach its final draft later this year.

Council said the date would depend on the outcomes of the public exhibition and workshops due to occur over the next six months.

A draft Estuary Management Study has also been developed, publically exhibited and subsequently revised over the past 12 months.

The draft study would be provided as a supporting document to the Brisbane Water Estuary Management Plan when it was publicly exhibited.

Since exhibition of the Estuary Management Study, the consultant had developed a preliminary Draft Brisbane Water Estuary Management Plan, according to council staff.

The draft Brisbane Water Estuary Management Plan is currently on exhibition until Friday, July 29.

Council Agenda ENV.35, 31 May 2011