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Environmental protection

Every person has a general environmental duty to ensure that they take all reasonable and practicable measures to prevent or minimise environmental harm due to any activity that they undertake.

Environmental harm is any adverse impact on a quality or physical characteristic of the environment and includes an environmental nuisance.

Council's Environmental Health Officers are authorised under the Environmental Protection Act 1994 to:

  • assess, monitor and register environmentally relevant activities (ERAs);  and
  • investigate environmental nuisance complaints that relate to air, water, noise, light, odour, or contamination

Environmentally relevant activities

An environmentally relevant activity is an activity that is required to be approved by either Council or State Government due to its potential to damage or pollute the environment (air, land, water and noise).

Council administers and regulates the following environmentally relevant activities:

ReferenceActivity
ERA4.1Poultry farm 1,000 to 200,000 birds
ERA4.2Poultry farm > 200,000 birds
ERA6aAsphalt manufacturing <1,000 tonne/year
ERA6bAsphalt manufacturing >1,000 tonne/year
ERA8.1.cStoring 10m3 to 500m3 dangerous good - class 3 or C/12
ERA12.1.a1Plastic manufacturing >50 tonne/year - plastic product 
ERA12.1.b2Plastic manufacturing >5 tonne/year - foam/composite/rigid 
ERA17Abrasive blasting 
ERA18aBoiler making >200 tonne <10,000 tonne/year 
ERA18bBoiler making >10,000 tonne/year 
ERA19Metal forming >10,000 tonne/year 
ERA20.1.a1Scrap metal yard <100 tonne/day
ERA20.1.a2Scrap metal yard >100 tonne/day or >10,000 tonne/year 
ERA20.1.b1Metal recovery <100 tonne/day  
ERA20.1.b2Metal recovery >100 tonne/day or >10,000 tonne/year 
ERA21Motor vehicle workshop operation 
ERA37aPrinting >200 tonne <1,000 tonne/year 
ERA37bPrinting >1,000 tonne/year 
ERA38.1.a1Surface coating <100 tonne/year 
ERA38.1.b2Surface coating <100 tonne/year 
ERA43Concrete batching >200 tonne/year 
ERA48.1.aWood and laminate manufacturing >100 tonne/year 
ERA49Boat maintenance or repair 
ERA61Waste incineration and thermal treatment 

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If you would like more information, please contact Council's Environmental Health Officers on 1300 79 49 29.

 

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