cr158696

LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA: Western Downs Regional Council

LOCATION: The resource is located on Paradise Road, adjacent to Dogwood Creek, approximately 8 kilometres north of Condamine and 19 kilometres south of Miles townships (see map KRA 165).

EXTRACTIVE RESOURCE: Sand

EXTRACTIVE RESOURCE DESCRIPTION: The resource site is generally covered by a thin and poorly developed veneer of residual soils that have been transported to the site via the Dogwood and Condamine river systems. The thin soil cover overlies an alluvial sand deposit which lies on top of a ferricrete band. Below that extremely weathered soft and friable sandstone of considerable thickness exists. A quarry currently operates at the site. The resource boundary is not fully defined at this stage, as a significant amount of resources is likely to exist outside the approved quarry resource area. The majority of the extracted sand has been used as bedding and fill sand in the gas fields. If washing and processing facilities are installed, this resource could be further processed and used as fine aggregate in concrete.

SIGNIFICANCE: The available resource is capable of supplying considerable quantities of material to the Western Downs Regional Council areas and surroundings for many years. Its location close to the Leichhardt, Condamine and Warrego Highways and the major CSG development areas is also significant.

SEPARATION AREA: The separation boundary is set at the full 200 metres from the resource boundary. The inner separation boundary is defined with a setback of 50 metres each from Dogwood Creek and Paradise Road.

TRANSPORT ROUTE: The materials are to be transported along Paradise Road on to the Leichhardt Highway towards Condamine or Miles.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS: A small part of the separation area is covered by Strategic Cropping Land (SCL) Trigger Mapping pursuant to the Regional Planning Interest Act 2014. This indicates the location of potential SCL and further on-ground assessment against the SCL criteria is required to confirm whether or not SCL exists.