Townsville Marine Precinct

Project overview*

EIS status	Recommended project proceed subject to conditions and recommendations
Description	Reclamation and development of approximately 34 hectares of land for marine-dependent industries.
Proponent	Port of Townsville Limited
Location/s	Port of Townsville. Map
Local government/s	Townsville City Council
Key features	private pile moorings (minimum of 53) trawler berths public boat ramps and 200-space parking area marine industry allotments, including a commercial slipway, barge ramp, ship-lift and docking facility breakwater

Key environmental impact statement (EIS) documents

• Coordinator-General’s report on EIS (PDF, 830 KB), March 2010
• Supplementary EIS (PDF, 266 KB), January 2010
  • Appendix A - Detailed design concepts (PDF, 945 KB)
  • Appendix B - Flood modelling outputs from Aecom (PDF, 626 KB)
  • Appendix C - Sediment trapping capacity of Lot 773C (PDF,1.5 MB)
  • Appendix D - Offset commitments (PDF, 160 KB)

• Environmental impact statement, September 2009
• Executive summary (PDF, 286 KB)
• Figure 1 - Reference design (PDF, 381 KB)
• Complete EIS (PDF, 10.6 MB)
  
  • Contents, exective summary, glossary of terms (PDF, 858 KB)
  • Section 1 - Introduction (PDF, 1.15 MB)
  • Section 2 - Description of the project (PDF, 973 KB)
  • Section 3 - Environmental values and management of impacts
    • Part A (PDF, 1.65 MB)
    • Part B (PDF, 1.56 MB)
    • Part C (PDF, 2.74 MB)
    • Part D (PDF, 1.01 MB)
    • Part E (PDF, 883 KB)
  • Section 4 - Social values and management of impacts (PDF, 168 KB)
  • Section 5 - Impacts on state and local economies and management of those impacts (PDF, 332 KB)
  • Section 6 - Hazard and risk assessment (PDF, 214 KB)
  • Section 7 - Matters of national environmental significance (PDF, 188 KB)
  • Section 8 - Environmental management plan (PDF, 228 KB)
  • Section 9 - Conclusions and recommendations (PDF, 114 KB)
  • Section 10 - References (PDF, 269 KB)
• Also available from State Library of Queensland (record number: 1198978)
• Terms of reference for EIS (PDF, 612 KB), April 2009
• Initial advice statement (PDF, 312 KB), July 2008
• Figure 1 - Concept layout (PDF 126 KB)
• Figure 2 - Proposed development area (PDF, 820 KB)
• Figure 3 - Townville Port Authority marine precinct (PDF, 172 KB)
• Appendix A - Essential habitat map (PDF, 719 KB)
• Appendix B - Wildlife online extract (PDF, 95 KB)
• Appendix C - Threatened and migratory fauna species (PDF, 37 KB)

EIS process

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Australian Government approval

Federal environment minister’s approval of ‘controlled action’, subject to conditions.

* Project information supplied by proponent and subject to change.