Onsite Wastewater Management Plan 2024-2029

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Executive Synthesis

• Mitchell Shire’s 2024-2029 plan is a statutory five-year risk-management plan for onsite wastewater systems, not a funded sewer capital works program. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• The plan was created in November 2023, has plan number 20230510, is owned by the Manager Community Amenity, and has a December 2028 renewal date. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Council regulates onsite systems designed for daily flows below 5,000 litres; systems above that threshold are managed directly by the Environment Protection Authority. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mitchell Shire covers 2,864 square kilometres, starts about 40 kilometres north of Melbourne, and is projected to grow from 57,109 residents to 176,261 by 2041. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• The plan records a potential ultimate population of more than 300,000 people, with most growth expected in the metropolitan residential growth corridor. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• The 2014 plan estimated as many as 5,000 Mitchell properties relied on onsite wastewater systems, while Council then held 2,275 domestic wastewater permit records. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• The 2024-2029 plan records 3,149 known systems in Health Manager and 3,068 GIS-linked Weave records used for analysis. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• The difference between the 3,149 Health Manager records and the 3,068 Weave records is 81 records, or about 2.6% of the Health Manager inventory. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• The difference between the current 3,149 known systems and the 2014 estimate of 5,000 potentially onsite-reliant properties is 1,851 properties. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• The current Health Manager inventory captures about 63.0% of the 2014 estimated 5,000 potentially onsite-reliant properties. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• From 2014 to 2022, landowners and developers made 548 permit-to-install applications for onsite wastewater systems. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Across nine inclusive calendar years, 548 permit-to-install applications average about 60.9 applications per year. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• The current plan says Mitchell receives around 70 to 80 permit applications each year to install or alter onsite wastewater systems. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Risk calculation was undertaken across 19 sub-catchments ranging from 79 to 499 square kilometres. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Waterford Park is the clearest binding-constraint case: close to 200 residents, around 18 hectares, approximately 14.6 kilometres south of Broadford, bounded by Sunday Creek, and subdivided into around 800 to 1,000 square metre allotments. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• The plan compares Waterford Park’s 800 to 1,000 square metre allotments with a 4,000 square metre unsewered Low Density Residential Zone benchmark. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• An 800 square metre lot is 20.0% of the cited 4,000 square metre unsewered benchmark, while a 1,000 square metre lot is 25.0%. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• The Waterford Park schematic identifies 23 properties with known onsite systems, 73 dwellings without a permit record in Tech One Property and Rating Database, and 3 properties with no current dwelling. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• The 73 Waterford Park dwelling-with-no-record properties make up about 76.0% of the 96 built properties implied by 23 known plus 73 no-record dwellings. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• The plan estimates implementation costs at an average of 5,000 to 6,000 each year. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• The plan contains 34 numbered outcomes and requires annual review plus a 2027 public progress report. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

This initiative matters because wastewater is the hidden feasibility control on rural settlement, low-density residential subdivision, and township growth. A dwelling can be physically buildable, policy-supported, and marketable, yet still be infeasible if its wastewater cannot be treated and retained onsite or transferred to a reticulated sewerage system. The plan’s mechanism is therefore not only environmental protection; it is a service-capacity test for land use. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

The page should be read with mitchell-south-urban-growth-area, wallan-structure-plan, beveridge-central-psp, beveridge-north-east-psp, beveridge-north-west-psp, beveridge-south-west-psp, donnybrook-woodstock-psp, affordable-housing-strategy-2023, and wallan-wallan-regional-park. These pages sit on the same dependency chain: growth needs servicing, servicing defines feasible density, and wastewater failures can move from private land into public water, public health, and environmental systems. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

System Definition

• An onsite wastewater management system treats blackwater, greywater, or sewage. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Blackwater is toilet waste. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Greywater comes from showers, baths, handwash basins, laundries, and kitchens. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Sewage combines blackwater and greywater. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Systems are used where properties cannot connect to reticulated sewerage. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Septic tanks are only one type of onsite wastewater management system. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• EPA-approved types listed in the plan include septic tanks, waterless composting toilets, secondary wastewater treatment systems, aerated wastewater treatment systems, and domestic greywater treatment systems. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Known Mitchell system types include mostly primary treatment systems and secondary aerated water treatment systems, with smaller numbers of composting and worm farm systems. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Historical split systems are no longer permitted because offsite wastewater discharge is prohibited. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Legislative Architecture

• The Environment Protection Act 2017 and Environment Protection Regulations 2021 introduced a prevention-focused framework. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The General Environmental Duty applies to all Victorians. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The duty requires owners to keep wastewater systems in good working order. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The duty requires owners not to overload systems. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The duty requires owners to manage risk when disposing treated sewage to land. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Council has power to act where the General Environmental Duty is breached for an onsite wastewater system. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Authorised officers can exercise powers of entry and inspection. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Authorised officers can issue maintenance, improvement, and prohibition notices. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The Planning and Environment Act 1987 frames planning applications and strategic planning controls. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 has been used for improvement notices where failing systems caused nuisance. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994 is relevant to declared special water catchments and referral authorities. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Property-owner permit requirements have existed since at least the Victorian Health Act 1928. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The risk assessment aligns with ISO 31000:2018. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The soil categories use Australian/New Zealand Standard 1547:2012. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Mitchell Context

• Mitchell Shire forms part of the Goulburn River Valley Region. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The Shire stretches from the Melbourne metropolitan edge to rural plains and granite plateaus near Puckapunyal. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The Shire sits in the Hume Corridor and contains road and rail infrastructure connecting Melbourne to Sydney. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• More than 50% of residents work outside the Shire. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The Department of Transport and Planning identified Mitchell as Victoria’s fastest-growing municipality. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Growth is expected mostly in the southern metropolitan residential growth corridor. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Many southern growth areas and larger townships have reticulated sewers. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Large rural and small-township areas still rely on onsite wastewater management. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The natural environment includes foothills, farmland, mountain ranges, rivers, and creeks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The same environment creates exposure to fires, storms, and floods. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Several endangered and threatened flora and fauna species have been identified. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Risk Assessment Method

• The risk assessment identifies risks down to catchment or sub-catchment level. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Victorian councils previously used different onsite wastewater risk methods. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• A VAGO review recommended standardised risk assessment. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• EPA, DEECA, and the Department of Health jointly developed the risk framework and spreadsheet tool. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mitchell project staff populated the spreadsheet tool. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Known system counts, types, and ages were calculated from Weave data. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Climatic data came from the Bureau of Meteorology. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Topographic and soil data came from the 2014 plan and private Land Capability Assessments. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Median slope was below 10% in all sub-catchments, so slope risk was low. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Higher-risk sodosols and tenosols occur in Deep Creek, Hughes/Stewart Creek, and Sugarloaf/Lower Sunday Creek catchments. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Other areas include low-risk chromosols and dermosols and medium-risk kandosols, kurosols, and vertosols. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Distances and densities relative to bores, flood plains, and watercourses could not be calculated. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Depths from disposal sites to the water table could not be calculated. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The risk guidance says missing data should be treated as high risk unless local knowledge supports a lower band. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Public Health Pathways

• Untreated wastewater can contain disease-causing pathogens. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Wastewater can contain chemicals and contaminants from household, industrial, or commercial activities. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Human faecal contamination can carry bacteria, viruses, protozoal pathogens, and parasites such as worms. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Many pathogens cause disease when ingested by humans. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Contamination can enter stormwater drains, rivers, creeks, dams, and groundwater. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Groundwater contamination can move through aquifers, crevices in rocks, and soil. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Inadequately treated wastewater can contaminate food-producing plants and crops. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Declared Special Water Supply Catchments create higher public-health risk. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Failures in declared catchments can affect community water supplies. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Environmental Pathways

• Untreated or poorly treated wastewater can discharge nitrogen and phosphorus to surface water or groundwater. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Domestic wastewater may include chemicals and pharmaceuticals. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Nutrient-level change can seriously affect aquatic ecosystems. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Chemicals and contaminants can create flow-on effects across species. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Poorly functioning systems can cause effluent run-off and seepage. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Council receives yearly complaints about odours and run-off escaping property boundaries. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Source-water contamination may require more treatment before water is safe to drink. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

High-Risk Catchments and Localities

• Victoria has 134 Declared Special Water Supply Catchment Areas. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Within Mitchell, all of McIvor Creek is in declared special water catchment areas. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Within Mitchell, all of Pohlman Creek and Back Creek is in declared special water catchment areas. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Parts of Mollison Creek, Sunday Creek, and Mt Disappointment are in declared special water catchment areas. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Localities include Tooborac, Pyalong, NullaVale, Glenhope, Glenhope East, MiaMia, Heathcote South, and Clonbinane. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Tooborac and Pyalong were main focus areas of the 2014 plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Over 700 inspections of systems in high-risk Tooborac and Pyalong areas have been undertaken since 2017. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The Mitchell Shire Environment Advisory Committee flagged Tallarook and Kilmore East as potential emerging issue areas. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Waterford Park Constraint

• Waterford Park is identified as one of the most significant risk areas for water contamination and public health risk. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Waterford Park is within the Clonbinane locality and Sunday Creek sub-catchment. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Waterford Park is not in a Declared Special Water Supply Area. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Its risk comes from proximity to Sunday Creek and housing density. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Historical subdivision created 800 to 1,000 square metre allotments. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The plan says it is almost impossible for owners to treat and retain all wastewater within those lot boundaries. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Water sampling demonstrated human faecal matter in Sunday Creek near Waterford Park. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Further sampling is needed to confirm contamination source or sources. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The plan says a compliance-based approach to Waterford Park is futile. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The plan says even modern efficient onsite systems are unlikely to solve the issue within allotment boundaries. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Other solutions need to be found. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Institutional Roles

• Goulburn-Murray Water is the rural water corporation responsible for Mitchell Shire. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Goulburn Valley Water largely provides water and sewerage services across Mitchell Shire. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Yarra Valley Water provides water and reticulated sewerage to the southern fringe, notably Wallan and Beveridge. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Coliban Water provides potable water but no sewerage to Tooborac. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Goulburn-Murray Water, Goulburn Valley Water, and Coliban Water are legislated referral authorities in declared catchments. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Catchment Management Authorities manage waterways and floodplains. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mitchell intersects Goulburn Broken CMA, North Central CMA, and Melbourne Water areas. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Kernow Environmental Services has delivered Mitchell Environmental Health activities since 2017. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Kernow remained contractor after the 2023 tender under a 3 + 3 + 3 contract. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Development Feasibility

• Development in unsewered areas depends on whether wastewater can be treated and retained onsite. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Small lots reduce the available disposal area and increase the probability of offsite movement. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Sewer availability must be checked for permit applications to upgrade or replace onsite systems. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Housing density and allotment size in unsewered areas must remain sustainable. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The Small Townships Infrastructure Assessment 2020 considered water, sewerage, power, gas, and telecommunications for Waterford Park, Tallarook, Pyalong, Tooborac, and Tyaak. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• The Rural Land and Activities Review 2022 acknowledged limitations to development and growth where reticulated sewerage was unavailable. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• For affordable-housing-strategy-2023, wastewater constraints matter because unsewered land may not be developable even if cheaper. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• For wallan-structure-plan and Beveridge PSP pages, reticulated sewerage supports higher-density growth feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• For environmental planning such as wallan-wallan-regional-park, wastewater matters because waterways and ecosystems are receptor pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Development feasibility implication: this fact should be treated as a servicing, catchment, maintenance, or records dependency before any intensification is assumed feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome-by-Outcome Implementation Analysis

Outcome 1

• Outcome 1 action: Advocate and partner with Goulburn Valley Water to determine the best town-based sewerage options for Waterford Park. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 1 timeframe: Formal option request in first quarter 2024. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 2

• Outcome 2 action: Train Environmental Health Unit staff to use the Place-based Small-Town Wastewater Management Project assessment tool. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 2 timeframe: 2024. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 3

• Outcome 3 action: Identify funding opportunities for onsite wastewater improvements in high-risk areas. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 3 timeframe: Ongoing. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 4

• Outcome 4 action: Partner with Goulburn Valley Water to engage Waterford Park community on viable wastewater-management solutions. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 4 timeframe: First half of 2024. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 5

• Outcome 5 action: Work with Goulburn Valley Water, Coliban Water, and Melbourne Water on information gathering for town-based solutions. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 5 timeframe: Ongoing, commencing 2024. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 6

• Outcome 6 action: Work with Waterford Park community on short-term strategies so existing systems function optimally. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 6 timeframe: 2024 and 2025. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 7

• Outcome 7 action: Continue state-level advocacy for town-based sewerage options, grants, and increased water-authority funding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 7 timeframe: Write to relevant authorities and ministers in 2024. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 8

• Outcome 8 action: Work quarterly with water authorities responsible for other high-risk communities. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 8 timeframe: Quarterly. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 9

• Outcome 9 action: Conduct annual review of Council onsite wastewater resources. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 9 timeframe: Annually. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 10

• Outcome 10 action: Conduct targeted education programs in high-risk areas. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 10 timeframe: Annually. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 11

• Outcome 11 action: Conduct Shire-wide education campaigns around single key messages. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 11 timeframe: Quarterly. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 12

• Outcome 12 action: Use shared onsite wastewater resources from EPA and other councils. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 12 timeframe: Ongoing. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 13

• Outcome 13 action: Develop safety resources around onsite systems. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 13 timeframe: 2024. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 14

• Outcome 14 action: Use different formats and languages for key messages. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 14 timeframe: Ongoing. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 15

• Outcome 15 action: Develop resources for new landowners and occupiers. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 15 timeframe: 2024. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 16

• Outcome 16 action: Explore GIS mapping layers for sewer access and known onsite systems. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 16 timeframe: 2024. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 17

• Outcome 17 action: Integrate onsite wastewater data and protocols into CRM, Trim, Health Manager, and GIS. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 17 timeframe: Ongoing. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 18

• Outcome 18 action: Expand Health Manager fields for searches, LCA outcomes, application details, permit conditions, reporting, and risk management. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 18 timeframe: 2024-2025. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 19

• Outcome 19 action: Develop a Property and Rating Database search function for ownership transfers. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 19 timeframe: 2025. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 20

• Outcome 20 action: Work with EPA and water authorities on a unified approach to encourage sewer connection where available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 20 timeframe: Ongoing. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 21

• Outcome 21 action: Ensure upgrade and replacement permit processes check current sewer availability. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 21 timeframe: 2024. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 22

• Outcome 22 action: Explore funding for a short-term Environmental Health position to review archived permit records. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 22 timeframe: 2027. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 23

• Outcome 23 action: Retrospectively add systems identified during routine property inspections. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 23 timeframe: Ongoing. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 24

• Outcome 24 action: Conduct community-wide surveys in high-risk areas to identify system type and age. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 24 timeframe: 2028. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 25

• Outcome 25 action: Develop resources for owners facing ageing or failing systems. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 25 timeframe: 2024-2025. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 26

• Outcome 26 action: Review internal regulatory procedures and documents. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 26 timeframe: Annually. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 27

• Outcome 27 action: Incorporate new guidelines and toolkits released under the Environment Protection framework. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 27 timeframe: As required. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 28

• Outcome 28 action: Provide ongoing training and up-skilling for Environmental Health and Planning staff. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 28 timeframe: Ongoing. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 29

• Outcome 29 action: Consolidate relationships between Environmental Health and Planning staff. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 29 timeframe: Ongoing. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 30

• Outcome 30 action: Develop relationships with water authorities and EPA, including regular meetings. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 30 timeframe: Ongoing. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 31

• Outcome 31 action: Monitor and update development and strategic planning policies in unsewered areas. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 31 timeframe: Ongoing. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 32

• Outcome 32 action: Undertake annual review of progress and provide Council with a summary. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 32 timeframe: Annually. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 33

• Outcome 33 action: Review externally contracted Environmental Health service delivery and renegotiate KPIs if required. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 33 timeframe: Annually. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Outcome 34

• Outcome 34 action: Publish a progress report on implementation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Outcome 34 timeframe: 2027 and required every 3 years. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this outcome either reduces immediate failure risk, improves evidence quality, strengthens institutional coordination, or preserves planning feasibility until sewerage or town-based options are available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Dependency: the action depends on the relevant Council unit, Kernow Environmental Services, water corporations, EPA, state agencies, property owners, or community participants named or implied by the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: this outcome should be mapped to proposals in unsewered areas because it defines whether risk is being reduced, documented, transferred to sewer, or left unresolved. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Planning Assessment Checklist

1. Is the property connected to reticulated sewerage or capable of connection? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

   • Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
   • Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

2. If sewer is available, has connection been encouraged rather than onsite replacement? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

   • Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
   • Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

3. If sewer is unavailable, is the lot large enough to treat and retain all wastewater onsite? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

   • Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
   • Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

4. Is the property in a Declared Special Water Supply Catchment Area? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

   • Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
   • Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

5. Is the property near a creek, river, bore, floodplain, dam, or drainage line? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

   • Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
   • Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

6. Is the system present in Health Manager? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

   • Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
   • Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

7. Is the system present in Weave GIS? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

   • Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
   • Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

8. Do Health Manager, Weave, and Property and Rating records agree? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

   • Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
   • Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

9. Is the system primary, secondary aerated, composting, worm farm, greywater, or historical split type? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

   • Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
   • Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

10. Is the system a legacy installation from the 1950s, 1980s, or 1990s? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

11. Is the system beyond the 25-to-30-year expected working lifespan described for historical options? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

12. Are maintenance and servicing records available? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

13. Has a Land Capability Assessment been supplied? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

14. Are soil categories known for the site? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

15. Is groundwater depth known? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

16. Does missing information require high-risk banding? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

17. Is the property in Waterford Park or another high-risk township? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

18. Has ownership recently changed? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

19. Has Council provided new-owner education? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

20. Has there been an odour, seepage, run-off, or amenity complaint? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

21. Has Environmental Health inspected the property? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

22. Has the system been retrospectively added after inspection? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

23. Do planning referral conditions match current legislation? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

24. Do permit conditions prohibit offsite discharge? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

25. Would an onsite upgrade solve the constraint, or is a town-based solution needed? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

26. Is the relevant water corporation involved? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

27. Is a catchment management authority relevant? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

28. Does the proposal increase density in an unsewered area? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

29. Does the proposal rely on outdated sewerage layers? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

30. Does the proposal align with the 34 plan outcomes? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

31. Does the proposal create evidence useful for the 2030-2035 plan? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

• Mechanism: the question tests whether wastewater risk is being reduced at source, transferred to reticulated sewer, or left as an unmanaged property-level uncertainty. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility consequence: if the answer is unknown, the plan’s risk method supports conservative treatment because missing data can require high-risk banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Source-Line Evidence Ledger

The following ledger converts the extracted source document into citeable analysis notes. It is intentionally granular because the page is used as an evidence base for planning, infrastructure, environmental health, and township feasibility work. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 1

• Plan Number (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 2

• 20230510 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 3

• Directorate (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 4

• Advocacy and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 5

• Community (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 6

• Owner (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 7

• Manager Community (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 8

• Amenity (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 9

• Date Created (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 10

• November 2023 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 11

• Renewal Date (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 12

• December 2028 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 13

• Acknowledgement of Funding (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 14

• The development of this plan was made possible thanks to funding from the Victorian Department of (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 15

• Environment, Land, Water and Planning’s Onsite Domestic Wastewater Management Grants Program. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 16

• Contents (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 17

• Acknowledgement of Funding…2 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 18

• Contents …3 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 19

• Accessibility …5 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 20

• Acknowledgement of Country …5 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 21

• 1 Introduction and Context …6 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 22

• 1.1 Introduction…6 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 23

• 1.2 What is an ‘Onsite Wastewater Management System’? …7 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 24

• 1.3 Potential risks associated with Onsite Wastewater Management Systems…8 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 25

• Public Health Risk …8 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 26

• Environmental Health Risk …8 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 27

• Adverse Impacts to Amenity …9 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 28

• 1.4 Legislation relevant to regulating Onsite Wastewater Management Systems …10 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 29

• 1.5 What is the purpose of developing an Onsite Wastewater Management Plan? …13 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 30

• 1.6 How we developed this plan …14 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 31

• 2 About Mitchell Shire …15 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 32

• 2.1 An introduction to Mitchell Shire …15 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 33

• 2.2 Onsite Wastewater Systems in Mitchell Shire …16 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 34

• 2.3 Transition to contracted Environmental Health services …17 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 35

• 2.4 Progress, actions, and outcomes from the 2014 Mitchell Shire Council Domestic Wastewater (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 36

• Plan …17 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 37

• 3 Risk Identification and Assessment for Onsite Wastewater Management in Mitchell Shire …20 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 38

• 3.1 Risk identification and assessment methodology …20 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 39

• 3.2 Onsite Wastewater Management Systems in Mitchell Shire …22 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 40

• 3.3 Completion and Outcomes of the Risk Assessment Spreadsheet Tool …24 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 41

• 3.4 Identifying and prioritising the risks associated with Onsite Wastewater Management in (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 42

• Mitchell Shire …25 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 43

• Identified Risk – Missing and Incomplete Data …25 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 44

• Identified Risk – High Risk Townships …26 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 45

• Identified Risk – Lack of Understanding and community awareness of Onsite Wastewater (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 46

• Management obligations and risks … 28 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 47

• 4 Strategies …29 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 48

• 4.1 Key Focus Areas for 2024-2029 …29 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 49

• 4.2 Focus Area 1 - Finding Solutions for Our Highest Risk Towns …30 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 50

• 4.2.1 – Key Outcomes and Strategies – High Risk Towns …30 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 51

• 4.3 Focus Area 2 - Education and Awareness …31 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 52

• 4.3.1 – Key Outcomes and Strategies – Education and Awareness …31 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 53

• 4.4 Focus Area 3 - Enhanced Information Management …32 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 54

• 4.4.1 – Key Outcomes and Strategies – Enhanced Information Management…32 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 55

• 4.5 Focus Area 4 - Identification of Legacy and Ageing Systems…34 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 56

• 4.5.1 – Key Outcomes and Strategies – Identification of Legacy and Ageing Systems …34 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 57

• 4.6 Focus Area 5 - Regulatory Responsibility …35 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 58

• 4.6.1 – Key Outcomes and Strategies – Regulatory Responsibility …35 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 59

• 4.7 Estimated Costs of Implementing this Plan …36 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 60

• 5 Reporting and Review …37 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 61

• 5.1 Plan review …37 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 62

• 5.1.1 Annual Review of Progress and Priorities …37 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 63

• 5.1.2 Development of Mitchell Shire Council’s Onsite Wastewater Management Plan 2030-2035 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 64

• …37 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 65

• Appendix 1 – Water Corporations in Mitchell Shire … 38 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 66

• Appendix 2 – Sub Catchments within Mitchell Shire …40 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 67

• Appendix 3 – Declared Special Water Catchment Areas within Mitchell Shire …41 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 68

• Appendix 4 – Soil Risk Categories within Mitchell Shire … 42 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 69

• Accessibility (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 70

• In line with the Victorian Government Accessibility Guidelines, Mitchell Shire Council has formatted this (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 71

• document to increase its readability and accessibility to the wider community. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 72

• It has been written in plain English, as concisely as possible, and avoids the use of acronyms (initialisms) (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 73

• wherever possible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 74

• Acknowledgement of Country (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 75

• Mitchell Shire Council respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters of (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 76

• the municipality, those of the Taungurung and Wurundjeri People. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 77

• We pay our respects to their rich cultures, their intrinsic connection to Country, and to their Elders, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 78

• past, present, and emerging. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 79

• 1 Introduction and Context (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 80

• 1.1 Introduction (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 81

• Under Victorian legislation, all Councils that have Onsite Wastewater Management Systems within their (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 82

• municipality must develop and implement an Onsite Wastewater Management Plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 83

• This plan is to be developed in consultation with Water Corporations, the community, and other (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 84

• relevant stakeholders. The broad purpose of the plan is for Local Councils to identify public and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 85

• environmental health risks associated with these systems, analyse those risks, and to set out strategies (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 86

• to minimise those risks within the context of their municipality. The plan represents a medium to long (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 87

• term vision of how the risks associated with these systems will be managed and regulated. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 88

• In 2014, Mitchell Shire Council published its second Domestic Wastewater Management Plan, and since (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 89

• that time, the Environmental Health, Local Laws, and Planning teams have implemented many of the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 90

• strategies outlined in that plan into their day-to-day activities and procedures. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 91

• In the time since the last plan was developed, the Shire has grown and changed, with the southern (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 92

• urban corridor and larger townships seeing significant development. There has also been an increased (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 93

• focus on the impacts of climate change and protecting the natural environment that attracts many of (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 94

• our community to the area. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 95

• Council has a statutory duty in relation to the regulation of Onsite Wastewater Management under a (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 96

• number of pieces of legislation. The recent changes to the Environment Protection Act 2017 (effective (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 97

• from 1 July 2021), have seen a significant transition from a more reactive, response-type focus to a (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 98

• more proactive and preventative focus with a ‘General Environmental Duty’ that is imposed on all (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 99

• Victorians, businesses and community members. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 100

• This revised and updated plan aims to further build on previous management strategies, and to look to (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 101

• the future in order to best minimise the risks posed by onsite wastewater management systems to the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 102

• environment and all of those that work, live or play within Mitchell Shire. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 103

• 1.2 What is an ‘Onsite Wastewater Management System’? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 104

• An Onsite Wastewater Management System is a system that treats ‘black water’ (toilet waste), (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 105

• ‘greywater’ (wastewater generated by showers, baths, handwash basins, laundry, or kitchens), or (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 106

• ‘sewage’ (a combination of black and grey water). (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 107

• Onsite Wastewater Management Systems are designed to treat and then either recycle or dispose of (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 108

• both greywater and black water in areas that are not able to connect to a reticulated sewerage system. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 109

• Wastewater can be treated in different ways. Onsite wastewater treatment systems may use bacterial, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 110

• biological, chemical, or physical treatment of the sewage generated on site. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 111

• Although often commonly referred to as ‘Septic Tanks’, it is important to note that septic tanks are only (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 112

• one type of onsite wastewater management system. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 113

• There are a number of different types of ‘Onsite Wastewater Management Systems’ approved for use (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 114

• by the Environment Protection Authority including: (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 115

• ï‚¡ Septic Tanks (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 116

• ï‚¡ Waterless Composting Toilets (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 117

• ï‚¡ Secondary Wastewater Treatment Systems (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 118

• ï‚¡ Aerated Wastewater Treatment Systems (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 119

• ï‚¡ Domestic Greywater treatment systems (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 120

• Local Councils are responsible for overseeing all systems that are designed to treat daily (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 121

• flows of less than 5000L. Systems larger than this are managed by the Environment (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 122

• Protection Authority directly. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 123

• 1.3 Potential risks associated with Onsite Wastewater Management Systems (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 124

• There are several risks associated with onsite wastewater management systems that relate to both (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 125

• public health and environmental health. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 126

• Public Health Risk (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 127

• Untreated (or inadequately treated) wastewater has long been recognised as posing a threat to public (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 128

• health. Wastewater may contain disease causing pathogens, chemicals, and other contaminants from (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 129

• household, industrial or commercial activities. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 130

• Wastewater that has been contaminated with human faecal matter may contain a variety of bacteria, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 131

• viruses, protozoal pathogens, and parasites such as worms. Many of these pathogens cause disease (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 132

• when ingested by humans so prevention of contamination of food and water supplies with sewage or (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 133

• blackwater is critical to preventing disease of both individuals and entire communities. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 134

• Contamination can occur directly when untreated wastewater enters storm water drains, rivers, creeks, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 135

• and dams, or through the contamination of ground water (water located below the surface in aquifers (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 136

• and crevices in rocks and soil). It can also occur if inadequately treated wastewater is used for watering (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 137

• food-producing plants and crops destined for human consumption. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 138

• Although all Onsite Wastewater Management Systems have the potential to impact public health if (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 139

• they are not maintained correctly or are failing, those that are located within ‘Declared Special Water (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 140

• Supply Catchment Areas’ are recognised as presenting a higher level of risk. Failures of systems in (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 141

• these areas could potentially impact not just neighbouring properties, local waterways, and habitat, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 142

• but also contaminate community water supplies. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 143

• Environmental Health Risk (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 144

• Mitchell Shire contains several areas of environmental significance, for both plant and animal species. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 145

• The importance of protecting and enhancing the natural environment and Council’s role in achieving (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 146

• this is detailed in the Mitchell Shire Environment Strategy 2012 – 2024. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 147

• The discharge of untreated or poorly treated wastewater into either surface or ground water has the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 148

• potential to seriously impact the delicate ecological balance due to increased levels of nitrogen and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 149

• phosphorus, along with the potential impacts of chemicals (and even pharmaceuticals) that may form (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 150

• part of domestic wastewater. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 151

• Aquatic ecosystems can be seriously impacted by the nutrient level changes, chemicals, and other (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 152

• contaminants and this has on-flow effects across a large number of species. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 153

• Adverse Impacts to Amenity (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 154

• Wastewater systems that are not functioning properly can lead to effluent run-off or seepage that may (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 155

• impact community amenity. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 156

• Every year, Council’s Environmental Health Officers receive complaints of poorly functioning or failing (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 157

• wastewater systems from residents who are concerned about the odours, or the failure to maintain (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 158

• the run-off from an onsite wastewater management system within a property’s boundaries. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 159

• Figure 1 – Contamination Pathways (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 160

• Taken from the Document ‘Onsite Wastewater Management Plans – Risk Assessment Guidance’ (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 161

• published by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 162

• Note: ‘Potable’ water is water that has been treated and tested as safe for human consumption – (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 163

• it has the same meaning as ‘drinking water’. Contamination of the source water used as part of a (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 164

• drinking supply system may mean more treatment is required to make the water safe to drink. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 165

• 1.4 Legislation relevant to regulating Onsite Wastewater Management Systems (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 166

• There are a number of different pieces of legislation and associated documents that relate to the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 167

• regulation and oversight of onsite wastewater management systems in Victoria. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 168

• Since the development of Mitchell Shire’s last Domestic Wastewater Management Plan in 2014, there (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 169

• have been significant changes to the Environment Protection Act and Environment Protection (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 170

• Regulations with the goal of introducing a ‘new approach to environmental issues, focusing on (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 171

• preventing waste and pollution impacts rather than managing those impacts after they have occurred.’ (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 172

• (Source: EPA Fact Sheet) (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 173

• The new Environment Protection Act 2017, and Environment Protection Regulations 2021, have seen (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 174

• the introduction of a ‘General Environmental Duty’ that applies to all Victorians, as well as changes to (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 175

• how enforcement can be undertaken. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 176

• The general environmental duty (sometimes shortened to ‘GED’) is at the center of the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 177

• Environment Protection Act 2017 and it applies to all Victorians. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 178

• The general environmental duty requires you to reduce the risk of your activities harming the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 179

• environment or human health. This includes the way you use and maintain your onsite (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 180

• wastewater management system. For example: (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 181

• • Keep your wastewater or septic system in good working order (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 182

• • Do not overload the system (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 183

• • Manage the risk when disposing the treated sewage to the land. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 184

• Councils have the power to act when there is a breach of the GED in relation to an onsite (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 185

• wastewater management system. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 186

• Read more about council’s role. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 187

• https://www.epa.vic.gov.au/for-community/environmental-information/water/about- (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 188

• wastewater/onsite-wastewater-regulatory-framework (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 189

• Source: epa.vic.gov.au (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 190

• The previous Environment Protection Act utilised several other related documents such as Codes of (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 191

• Practice, Guidelines, and Toolkits to assist with direction and enforcement. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 192

• With the introduction of the new legislation, these supporting documents have, in some cases, moved (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 193

• from ‘enforceable’ to ‘state of knowledge’ (such as the the State Environment Protection Policy (Waters) (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 194

• and the Code of Practice - Onsite Wastewater Management ). Others have required extensive review (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 195

• and updating. This process is still ongoing, posing some difficulties for councils during the transition (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 196

• period. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 197

• Under the new legislation, Council ‘Authorised Officers’ can exercise certain powers of entry and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 198

• inspection, issue notices ordering maintenance and/or improvement, as well as prohibition notices. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 199

• The Environment Protection Authority are working on releasing a number of updated publications to (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 200

• assist Local Council and Authorised Officers with administering these new powers and understanding (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 201

• how the regulation of Onsite Wastewater Management Systems has changed under the new Act . (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 202

• The Act is designed with a different mix of subordinate instruments and regulatory tools to support (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 203

• and work with the Act. This framework focuses on the prevention of waste and the impacts of (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 204

• pollution, rather than managing those impacts after they have occurred. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 205

• Source: water.vic.gov.au (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 206

• The regulation of Onsite Wastewater Management Systems is complex. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 207

• ï‚¡ The Environment Protection Act 2017 and Environment Protection Regulations 2021 set out the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 208

• requirements for owners of any property that has an Onsite Wastewater Management System. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 209

• They also provide Councils with set powers to regulate these systems, along with a variety of ‘tools’ (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 210

• they can use to achieve this. These pieces of legislation relate to existing systems. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 211

• Council’s Environmental Health Unit (part of Mitchell Shire’s Community Amenity Department) (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 212

• plays a lead role in this area. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 213

• ï‚¡ The Planning and Environment Act 1987 is the state-level piece of legislation that provides the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 214

• framework for planning decisions. It does this by providing the rules and requirements for (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 215

• developing land, including allowed uses for land based on zoning and overlays, and outlines the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 216

• roles and responsibilities of various authorities and stakeholders. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 217

• The Mitchell Shire Planning Scheme, developed under the Victorian Planning Provisions, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 218

• outlines the policies and provisions that control land use and development across the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 219

• municipality. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 220

• Council’s Planning Department plays an important role in minimising the potential risks from (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 221

• onsite wastewater by ensuring all developments, subdivisions and re-zoning activities are (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 222

• appropriate, and that planning decisions conform to the requirements of the planning scheme. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 223

• This includes ensuring that the Environmental Health Unit and relevant Water Authorities have (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 224

• their required input into planning decisions through a robust ‘referral process’. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 225

• You can learn more about Victoria’s planning system by visiting planning.vic.gov.au. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 226

• Councils also have specified roles and powers under other pieces of legislation that may impact the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 227

• installation, use, and regulation of Onsite Wastewater Management Systems: (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 228

• ï‚¡ Local Government Act 2020 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 229

• ï‚¡ Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 230

• ï‚¡ Water Act 1989 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 231

• ï‚¡ Safe Drinking Water Act 2003 and Safe Drinking Water Regulations 2015 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 232

• 1.5 What is the purpose of developing an Onsite Wastewater Management Plan? (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 233

• An onsite wastewater management plan is a documented plan that aims to consolidate Council’s (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 234

• understanding of the risks associated with onsite wastewater management systems within their (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 235

• municipality, and to prioritise actions and provide direction in relation to how those risks are to be (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 236

• minimised in the medium to longer term. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 237

• Although the basic risks associated with the use of onsite wastewater management systems are (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 238

• universal, each municipality will vary in population density and location, soil types, geography, and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 239

• number and distribution of water catchments. This means that the importance of each of the identified (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 240

• risks and actions and priorities will vary from area to area and be unique for each municipality. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 241

• The development and implementation of an Onsite Wastewater Management Plan for Mitchell Shire (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 242

• aligns with the Community Vision and Council Plan which focus on how the Council will deliver its (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 243

• services so that Mitchell becomes ‘….a place that people of all ages love to call home. Where we (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 244

• celebrate our natural beauty and where businesses prosper.’ (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 245

• The Plan documents action items that require budget allocation, human resources, and ongoing (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 246

• advocacy to have a meaningful impact. Without integration into day-to-day council activities, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 247

• procedures, service contracts, role descriptions, and departmental performance indicators, the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 248

• planned action items are unlikely to achieve the outcomes required to minimise the risks posed by (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 249

• onsite wastewater management systems to both the community and the environment. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 250

• Finally, the development of the Onsite Wastewater Management Plan provides an opportunity to (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 251

• provide information and education for all stakeholders, but especially for those landowners, businesses (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 252

• and occupiers who rely on onsite systems to manage wastewater on their property. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 253

• 1.6 How we developed this plan (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 254

• “This Onsite Wastewater Management Plan was developed in close collaboration with internal and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 255

• external stakeholders, including the Mitchell Shire community. The Mitchell Shire Council Onsite (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 256

• Domestic Wastewater Plan 2024-2029 primarily involved key departments, contractors, and staff (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 257

• responsible for delivering Council services related to onsite wastewater. Their extensive experience and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 258

• knowledge were instrumental in the plan’s development. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 259

• During the drafting stages, we also engaged with our largest Water Corporation and relevant (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 260

• government bodies overseeing wastewater management legislation. An initial review of the Mitchell (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 261

• Shire Council Domestic Wastewater Management Plan 2014 was carried out in conjunction with (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 262

• Mitchell Shire Council’s Environmental Health unit and Planning team staff. A comprehensive (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 263

• assessment included a desktop analysis of the plan’s strategies over the past decade, which highlighted (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 264

• priority areas, data limitations, and the need for updated information management strategies. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 265

• Subsequently, a formal risk assessment process was undertaken using the new Risk Assessment (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 266

• Framework for Managing Onsite Wastewater, jointly developed by the EPA, Department of Energy, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 267

• Environment, and Climate Change, and the Department of Health. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 268

• A Draft Plan was formulated and shared for Community Consultation in July-August 2023, with feedback (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 269

• and suggestions collected to inform the final document. We received a total of four written submissions (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 270

• during this period, and we held follow-up meetings with both Goulburn Valley Water and Coliban Water (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 271

• to discuss their submissions in more detail.” (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 272

• Mitchell Shire (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 273

• DRAFT Onsite (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 274

• Onsite (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 275

• Review of Stakeholder Wastewater Community (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 276

• Risk Analysis Wastewater (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 277

• Previous Plan Engagement Management Consultation (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 278

• Management (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 279

• PlanPlan (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 280

• Plan 2024-2029 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 281

• 2 About Mitchell Shire (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 282

• 2.1 An introduction to Mitchell Shire (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 283

• Mitchell Shire, located 40 kilometers north of Melbourne, forms part of the Goulburn River Valley (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 284

• Region, known for its scenic beauty. The municipality stretches from the edge of the Melbourne (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 285

• Metropolitan area at its southern boundary to rural plains and granite plateaus surrounding the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 286

• Puckapunyal Military Area to the north, covering 2864 square kilometers. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 287

• Offering a mix of urban and rural living, the municipality supports (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 288

• a diverse range of lifestyle and housing choices. It is also a popular (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 289

• outdoor activity and holiday destination with areas of lush forest, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 290

• walking trails, rivers and lakes, and a variety of unique attractions. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 291

• Located within the Hume Corridor, the Shire contains major road (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 292

• and rail infrastructure connecting Melbourne to Sydney. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 293

• Mitchell Shire has a high commuter workforce (more than to 50% (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 294

• of residents work outside of the Shire) relying heavily on regional (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 295

• rail and road networks to travel to and from work and for day-to- (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 296

• day community activities. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 297

• Mitchell Shire has been identified by the Department of Transport and Planning as the fastest growing (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 298

• municipality in Victoria with an estimated population growth of 4.5% from 2018 through to 2036. The (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 299

• Shire’s current population of 57,109 is projected to more than triple by 2041 to 176,261 residents. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 300

• Ultimately, the Shire will continue to grow to a potential population of more than 300,000 people. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 301

• Most of this population growth is expected to be in the metropolitan residential growth corridor, with (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 302

• large housing estates already being developed and changing the landscape in the south of the municipal (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 303

• area. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 304

• Our rolling foothills, open farmland, mountain ranges, rivers and creeks contribute to a unique natural (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 305

• environment, however they come with the risk of natural disasters such as fires, storms, and floods. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 306

• Within this varied natural environment, several endangered and threatened species of flora and fauna (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 307

• have been identified. Protecting and enhancing the natural environment is part of Mitchell Shire (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 308

• Council’s vision for the future and details of how we plan to achieve this are outlined in the Mitchell (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 309

• Shire Environment Strategy 2012 – 2024. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 310

• Although many parts of the southern urban growth corridor and larger townships within Mitchell Shire (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 311

• are serviced by reticulated sewers, there remains a large area of the Shire where onsite wastewater (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 312

• management is the only option for property owners. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 313

• 2.2 Onsite Wastewater Systems in Mitchell Shire (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 314

• The requirement for a property owner to obtain a permit for the installation of an onsite wastewater (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 315

• management system has been in place since at least 1928 (Victorian Health Act 1928), however it is (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 316

• only recently that the conditions of these permits has required owners of these systems to regularly (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 317

• service their treatment units and to provide Council with evidence of their ongoing maintenance. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 318

• Historically, permits allowed for onsite wastewater management systems to discharge outside of (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 319

• property boundaries, and into open drains. Permits were issued for the installation of systems, with no (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 320

• requirements for ongoing service or maintenance, and with no permit ‘end date’ despite all the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 321

• wastewater management options of the day having an expected working lifespan of 25-30 years. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 322

• Prior to the formation of the Shire of Mitchell in November 1994, areas included in the current (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 323

• municipality boundaries were overseen by the Shire of Pyalong, Rural City of Seymour, Shire of (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 324

• Broadford, and Shire of McIvor and hence records of onsite wastewater management system permits (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 325

• are spread across the archives of each of these. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 326

• Records of the location and type of onsite wastewater management systems located across Mitchell (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 327

• Shire have improved significantly with the transition to electronic record keeping in the last 10-20 years, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 328

• however, historical data relating to permits issued for onsite wastewater management systems remains (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 329

• incomplete. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 330

• In the Mitchell Shire Council Domestic Wastewater Management Plan 2014, it was estimated that there (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 331

• may have been 5,000 allotments within Mitchell Shire that relied on onsite wastewater management (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 332

• systems. At that time Council had records of 2275 domestic wastewater permits, however it was (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 333

• acknowledged that records of many units may have been missing from historical data, and there may (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 334

• have been units that had been installed without following the correct application and approval process. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 335

• In the years 2014 – 2022, 548 applications were made by landowners and developers for ‘Permits to (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 336

• Install’ an Onsite Wastewater Management System as areas of the municipality have become (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 337

• increasingly developed. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 338

• Mitchell Shire Council’s ‘Health Manager’ program currently lists details of 3149 ‘known’ Onsite (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 339

• Wastewater Management Systems located across the Shire, with some previously unrecorded systems (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 340

• identified during property inspections retrospectively added to the database. There have also been (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 341

• extensions to the reticulated sewerage system in all the larger townships of the municipality as these (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 342

• areas grow and develop. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 343

• 2.3 Transition to contracted Environmental Health services (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 344

• In 2017, Mitchell Shire Council made the decision undertake a tender process for the provision of its (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 345

• Environmental Health Services. As a result of this, Kernow Environmental Services have been the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 346

• contractor delivering all the Shire’s Environmental Health activities since this time. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 347

• Oversight and regulatory activities relating to Onsite Wastewater Management Systems is only one part (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 348

• of the services provided, and as such, the Environmental Health unit at Mitchell has contractual (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 349

• requirements and key performance indicators across a variety of activities. Many of the outcomes and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 350

• strategies from the Mitchell Shire Council Domestic Wastewater Plan 2014, were included into the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 351

• contractual agreement, however some items were outside the scope of the contract or were the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 352

• responsibility of other areas of council. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 353

• At the time of the expiration of the initial contract, Council reassessed its ability to bring these services (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 354

• back ‘in-house’, however it was found that contracted services remained the better option, and once (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 355

• again the provision of environmental health services for the Shire were put out to tender in 2023. As (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 356

• the successful respondent, Kernow Environmental Services remains as the contractor with a ‘3 + 3 + 3 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 357

• contract’ in place, and as such, their staff will be responsible for delivering many of the strategies in this (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 358

• plan as part of their ‘business as usual’ activities. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 359

• 2.4 Progress, actions, and outcomes from the 2014 Mitchell Shire Council Domestic (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 360

• Wastewater Plan (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 361

• The Mitchell Shire Council Domestic Wastewater Plan 2014 contained four areas of strategic priority, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 362

• with each area broken down into ‘Action Steps’ with a timeline, responsibility, and budget requirement. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 363

• ï‚¡ Priority 1 – Communication and engagement (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 364

• ï‚¡ Priority 2 – Monitoring, compliance, and information management (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 365

• ï‚¡ Priority 3 – Review of policy and procedures (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 366

• ï‚¡ Priority 4 – Reporting and review (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 367

• Initially, internal Mitchell Shire Council staff implemented the plan, but with the transition to contracted (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 368

• environmental health services, many of the plan action items relating to statutory requirements and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 369

• ‘business as usual’ type activities were written into the contract agreement as key deliverables. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 370

• Despite the COVID Pandemic presenting new challenges for the delivery of many on-site and face-to- (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 371

• face action items, most of the action steps were delivered, undertaken, or commenced within the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 372

• timeframes set out. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 373

• The Environmental Health unit produced a number of educational resources including a septic system (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 374

• maintenance flyer and fact sheet, and content for the Mitchell Shire Council website. They also (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 375

• conducted a ‘Customer Survey’ requesting information relating to onsite wastewater management (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 376

• systems from property owners and occupiers across the Shire. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 377

• There was development of correspondence templates for use before, during, and after pro-active (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 378

• inspections of onsite wastewater systems in high-risk areas that formed part of the Domestic (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 379

• Wastewater Management Plan’s monitoring program. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 380

• This monitoring program saw an initial audit of 120 properties perceived to be high-risk in the township (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 381

• areas of Tooborac and Pyalong as part of the ‘Place-based Small Town Wastewater Management (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 382

• Project’. This multi-agency project, headed by Goulburn Valley Water, formed the basis of developing (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 383

• an assessment tool for determining the feasibility of a range of options for wastewater management in (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 384

• towns where there is no access to a reticulated sewerage connection. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 385

• The goal of developing this assessment tool was to provide all agencies an initial, ‘first pass’ method of (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 386

• assessing options for small, unsewered townships utilising data such as allotment size, population (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 387

• densities, and information such as soil types captured in Land Capability Assessments. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 388

• Since then, a total of over 700 inspections and desktop assessments across 20 localities within Mitchell (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 389

• Shire have taken place. These inspections were separate to the ‘business as usual’ inspections that (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 390

• took place in response to permit applications (permits to install, permits to alter an existing system, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 391

• and certificates for use) and those in response to concerns and complaints relating to onsite systems (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 392

• that may have been failing or impacting community amenity. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 393

• Onsite wastewater management systems that have been identified during these inspections, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 394

• monitoring programs, and through the customer survey, but which did not appear in Council records (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 395

• have been added to the database retrospectively. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 396

• During the time since the 2014 Plan was implemented, the Environmental Health unit transitioned to (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 397

• a new software program called ‘Health Manager’. This improved software allows for better recording (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 398

• and tracking of Onsite Wastewater Management Systems and other environmental health activities (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 399

• across the Shire. Along with the broader Council-wide transition to updated information management (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 400

• software, this has seen a dramatic improvement in information accessibility and sharing. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 401

• Since Kernow Environmental Services commenced at Mitchell in 2017, they have also utilised their own (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 402

• Regulatory Information and Management System procedures and forms to ensure compliance with the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 403

• relevant legislation, codes, and standards of practice. As part of their service agreement, all relevant (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 404

• wastewater documents are reviewed annually or when there is legislative change to ensure that the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 405

• contained information is accurate, and that processes and activities comply with legislative (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 406

• requirements. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 407

• During the time since the implementation of the 2014 plan, there has been the need to undertake (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 408

• enforcement action in relation to landowners who have failed to comply with directions in relation to (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 409

• their onsite wastewater management systems. In most cases, the environmental health unit undertake (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 410

• an educational approach to resolve any issues, but improvement notices have been issued under the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 411

• Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 where wastewater systems were failing or causing an (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 412

• environmental or public health nuisance. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 413

• Much effort has been put into developing a better relationship between the contracted Environmental (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 414

• Health unit and the planning department, including significant work on making sure that ‘referrals’ for (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 415

• planning applications are processed efficiently, and in a repeatable manner that ensures that all (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 416

• applications are carefully considered and responded to. This has included the development of a number (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 417

• of checklists, a set of standard planning conditions, and a planning referral service agreement between (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 418

• the environmental health and planning units. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 419

• The planning department have also been busy undertaking a number of projects that relate to (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 420

• wastewater management within the municipality, including engaging Tomkinson Group to prepare a (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 421

• report – ‘Mitchell Shire Small Townships Infrastructure Assessment 2020’. This project looked at the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 422

• provision of services including water, sewerage, power, gas, and telecommunications for the townships (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 423

• of Waterford Park, Tallarook, Pyalong, Tooborac and Tyaak, and detailed opportunities and constraints (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 424

• for the development of each area. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 425

• The infrastructure assessment report helped to inform the larger Mitchell Shire Council Rural Land and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 426

• Activities Review 2022, which ‘outlines a strategic framework and planning policy recommendations for (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 427

• the use, management, and development of rural land within the shire’, with both documents (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 428

• acknowledging the limitations to development and growth where a reticulated sewerage option was (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 429

• not currently available. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 430

• Although most of the action items from the 2014 plan have been successfully implemented and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 431

• delivered, there have been some that have not. With the transition to contracted environmental health (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 432

• services, there have been action items that have been deemed to be outside of the scope of the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 433

• contract. Where these items have not been identified and re-assigned to a specific role within council, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 434

• they have remained largely unactioned. This has highlighted the need to ensure that the roles and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 435

• responsibilities for all future action items are better defined, both within any contract agreement, and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 436

• internally within council departmental staff. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 437

• 3 Risk Identification and Assessment for Onsite Wastewater Management (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 438

• in Mitchell Shire (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 439

• 3.1 Risk identification and assessment methodology (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 440

• The goal of conducting a comprehensive risk assessment is to systematically identify the risks posed by (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 441

• Onsite Wastewater Management Systems across the municipality down to a catchment (or sub- (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 442

• catchment) level. The risk analysis can be used to inform the priorities of the plan moving forward. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 443

• In the past, Councils across Victoria conducted their Onsite Wastewater Management risk analyses in (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 444

• different ways. One of the outcomes of the Victorian Auditor General’s Office review into ‘Managing (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 445

• the Impacts of Domestic Wastewater’, was the recommendation that Councils adopt a standardised (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 446

• risk assessment process that aligns with the ISO standards (ISO 31000:2018 – Risk Management (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 447

• Guidelines). (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 448

• To this end, a risk assessment framework including a Risk Calculation spreadsheet tool, and Risk (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 449

• Assessment Guidance Report for managing onsite wastewater has been developed jointly by the EPA, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 450

• Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Change and the Department of Health. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 451

• Mitchell Shire Council’s Onsite Wastewater Management Plan project staff were given the task of (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 452

• populating the risk calculation spreadsheet tool to inform the risk assessment process. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 453

• One of the things that became immediately obvious was that, although data collection and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 454

• management has improved significantly, there are still large gaps in the information required to fully (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 455

• populate the detail required by this spreadsheet tool. There are also areas of data source ‘overlap’ (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 456

• where inconsistencies in total values exist between data from different origins within the Mitchell Shire (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 457

• records. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 458

• With the move to the Health Manager program in 2019, data migration from Mitchell Shire Council’s (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 459

• Property and Rating database was undertaken. Unfortunately, the Health Manager program is not (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 460

• currently easily searchable, with only a limited number of data queries and report functions available, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 461

• most of which relate directly to operational requirements. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 462

• Spatial information, searching, and reports relating to known onsite wastewater management systems (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 463

• is, however, available through Mitchell Shire’s geographical information system (GIS), ‘Weave’. This (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 464

• system contains layers relating to some reticulated sewerage provision (older data), sub-catchments, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 465

• and onsite wastewater management system permits, but it currently relies on data that is still sourced (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 466

• from the Property and Rating database, rather than from the Health Manager program. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 467

• Therefore, populating the risk spreadsheet has presented a significant challenge. Although onsite (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 468

• wastewater management system permit records exist in the Property and Rating database relating to (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 469

• the timeframe since the data migration to Health Manager, there are approximately 100 records less (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 470

• than the totals held within Health Manager. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 471

• At best, the information entered into the spreadsheet relating to known systems is a ‘close estimate’ (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 472

• of the current situation due to being based on this less accurate and less up-to-date data source. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 473

• The need for a ‘single source of truth’ for risk assessment data and reporting is an area that will need (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 474

• to be addressed moving forward. Inclusion of Health Manager data within the searchable Weave (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 475

• program is an option that will need to be explored during the lifecycle of this plan, so that future (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 476

• iterations of risk assessment are able to be based on improved, more easily searchable, and more (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 477

• accurate, data. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 478

• The risk assessment spreadsheet tool requires information relating to other risk factors, such as (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 479

• distances and densities of known systems relative to bores, flood plains, and watercourses along with (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 480

• depths from disposal sites to the water table. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 481

• Although quite a bit of information about groundwater is available from the ‘Visualising Victoria’s (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 482

• Groundwater’ website, these items are not yet available in Mitchell Shires Geographical Information (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 483

• System as searchable layers, making it virtually impossible to break down the location and type of the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 484

• known systems based on these criteria. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 485

• The risk assessment spreadsheet tool also asks for inputs in relation to soils and slopes, and the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 486

• distribution of known systems within these. Although state-level soil maps are available, information (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 487

• relating to soil type for individual areas of the municipality are often only available if privately funded (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 488

• Land Capability Assessment reports containing soil type information have been submitted by (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 489

• landowners as part of their permit applications. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 490

• Mitchell Shire’s Environmental Health Unit staff have begun extracting and recording these details as (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 491

• each permit application is assessed, however the data set is currently limited. To facilitate progression (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 492

• of the risk assessment tool, soil and slope data presented in the 2014 plan had to be used. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 493

• This incomplete data set presents a risk that needs to be addressed and is something that Council is (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 494

• likely to battle with for quite some time to come as limited resources make large scale attempts at (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 495

• completing the data unfeasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 496

• As advised in the Risk Assessment Guidance documentation, ‘a high-risk band should be allocated (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 497

• where data is not available (unless local knowledge can support a lower band).’ (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 498

• 3.2 Onsite Wastewater Management Systems in Mitchell Shire (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 499

• Current records held within the Health Manager program show 3149 registered onsite wastewater (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 500

• management systems are located within the Shire. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 501

• Data available within the Weave program totals 3068 records linked to permit applications. Some of (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 502

• these permit applications did not progress or were cancelled, others relate to properties that no longer (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 503

• exist due to subdivision or consolidation of allotments and the allocation of updated property numbers. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 504

• Figure 2 – Distribution of known Onsite Wastewater Management Systems in Mitchell Shire used in the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 505

• data analysis. Source: Weave (GIS) viewer June 2023 Total systems represented: 3068 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 506

• The Mitchell Shire Council Domestic Wastewater Management Plan 2014 undertook modelling to try (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 507

• to better determine how many onsite wastewater management systems might exist within the Shire, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 508

• looking at unsewered areas where the difference between the Capital Improved Value and the Site (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 509

• Value suggested some type of dwelling on the premises. This modelling, along with registered systems, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 510

• indicated that there were as many as 5,000 properties that were relying on onsite systems. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 511

• Despite the number of onsite wastewater systems recorded in council’s records having been improved (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 512

• with the retrospective entry of ‘found’ systems, there still exists a knowledge gap relating to legacy (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 513

• systems and those installed without correct permissions. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 514

• Although attempts need to be made to identify these missing records, it is unlikely that a complete (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 515

• record of every system will ever be achieved. With that in mind, this plan needs to aim to increase the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 516

• accuracy of information held by council – by retrospectively adding systems as they are found and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 517

• potentially exploring archived council records – however any risk assessment will need to consider that (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 518

• there will inevitably be ‘unknown’ and ‘unrecorded’ systems located across the Shire. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 519

• Records of the known systems indicate that there are a variety of system types, with the majority being (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 520

• Primary Treatment Systems, and Secondary Aerated Water Treatment Systems with a smaller number (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 521

• of composting and worm farm type systems. Historically there are also ‘split systems’ which are no (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 522

• longer permitted to be installed because offsite discharge of wastewater is prohibited. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 523

• Onsite Wastewater Management Systems located in the townships of Tooborac and Pyalong, along (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 524

• with areas located to the northwest of these two towns fall into the Declared Special Water Supply (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 525

• Catchment Areas. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 526

• Although these areas require special consideration during risk assessment, all planning applications (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 527

• relating to properties within these declared areas are referred to Goulburn Valley Water, Coliban (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 528

• Water, or Melbourne Water in line with the Guidelines that have been developed when applications (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 529

• are made to use or develop these areas. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 530

• Onsite Wastewater Management Systems within the high risk Tooborac and Pyalong areas were (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 531

• one of the main focus areas of the Mitchell Shire Council Domestic Wastewater Plan 2014, with (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 532

• over 700 inspections of systems in these areas being undertaken since 2017. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 533

• Each year, Mitchell Shire Council receives around 70-80 permit applications to either install or alter an (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 534

• onsite wastewater management system. The referral process and the setting of referral conditions for (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 535

• planning applications has been improved thanks to one of the action items set out in the Mitchell Shire (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 536

• Council Domestic Wastewater Management Plan 2014. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 537

• Staff from the Environmental Health Unit and Planning Departments now have a simplified and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 538

• documented procedure that promotes consistency across applications and ensures that all legislative (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 539

• requirements are met during the approval process. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 540

• 3.3 Completion and Outcomes of the Risk Assessment Spreadsheet Tool (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 541

• Available data was entered into the spreadsheet tool across 19 separate sub-catchment areas ranging (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 542

• from 79 – 499 square kilometers in size. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 543

• The number of known systems for each sub-catchment and their type and age was calculated from (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 544

• data extracted from the Weave program. Climatic data was sourced from the Bureau of Meteorology. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 545

• Topographical and soil data was consolidated from the analysis undertaken in the Mitchell Shire Council (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 546

• Domestic Wastewater Plan 2014, along with information captured from private Land Capability (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 547

• Assessments undertaken as part of planning applications relating to properties within the Shire. The (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 548

• risk attributable to slope across the Shire is low with a median slope of less than 10% for all the sub- (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 549

• catchment areas, so known systems were grouped in the corresponding banding. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 550

• Soil types across the Shire do vary, with the higher risk ‘sodosols’ and ‘tenosols’ present in the Deep (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 551

• Creek, Hughes/Stewart Creek, and Sugarloaf/Lower Sunday Creek catchment areas. The remaining (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 552

• areas of the Shire are split between the low risk ‘chromosols’ and ‘dermosols’ and the medium risk (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 553

• ‘kandosols’, ‘kurosols’, and ‘vertosols’. The risk assessment spreadsheet tool utilises the six soil (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 554

• categories outlined in Australian/NZ Standard 1547:2012, so known systems were grouped into a single (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 555

• risk category for each sub-catchment. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 556

• Distances of known systems from, and densities in relation to bores, flood plains, and watercourses (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 557

• along with depths from disposal sites to the water table was not able to be calculated, so high risk (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 558

• bandings were chosen for all sub catchments apart from those with no known systems. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 559

• 3.4 Identifying and prioritising the risks associated with Onsite Wastewater (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 560

• Management in Mitchell Shire (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 561

• Risk identification and prioritization for this plan combines previous risk assessment data (such as that (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 562

• outlined in the Mitchell Shire Council Domestic Wastewater Management Plan 2014), Environmental (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 563

• Health unit and Planning Department ‘local knowledge’, and current data analysis utilising the risk (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 564

• calculation spreadsheet tool and guidelines. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 565

• Many of the highest risks identified have not changed since the development of the Mitchell Shire (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 566

• Council Domestic Wastewater Plan 2014 with ongoing efforts only able to reduce and attenuate the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 567

• risks posed by onsite wastewater management systems, rather than resolve them completely. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 568

• Moving forward, there remains a need to focus limited resources to the areas where the most (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 569

• significant impacts can be made. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 570

• Identified Risk – Missing and Incomplete Data (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 571

• As has already been identified in earlier parts of this section, lack of complete data sets, difficulties in (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 572

• manipulating and searching data, and missing records relating to onsite wastewater management (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 573

• systems remains an ongoing issue, although there have been some significant improvements since the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 574

• Mitchell Shire Council Domestic Wastewater Management Plan 2014. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 575

• Despite advances in information technology, newer software programs, and better processes and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 576

• procedures, there remains the legacy issue of systems that were approved many decades ago, along (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 577

• with systems that were installed without council approvals that have still not been identified and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 578

• recorded. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 579

• Strategies and outcomes for the next five years will need to continue to prioritise and address these (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 580

• issues, working towards a more complete record of active systems across the municipality, including (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 581

• ongoing retrospective recording of legacy and ageing systems that are not currently include in Council (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 582

• records. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 583

• Identified Risk – High Risk Townships (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 584

• Throughout the risk assessments undertaken with each subsequent wastewater management plan, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 585

• there remains unsewered townships within the Shire that pose a higher level of risk. The 2014 plan (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 586

• identified high-risk townships with significant numbers of properties relying on onsite systems that (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 587

• were located within Declared Special Water Supply areas, and close to water take-off points. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 588

• Townships and localities such as Tooborac, Pyalong, Nullavale, Mia Mia, Glenhope and Glenhope East (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 589

• in the Shire’s northwest continue to pose a significant threat to water catchments should onsite (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 590

• wastewater systems begin to fail, so they must remain a focus for the duration of this coming plan. The (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 591

• Mitchell Shire Environment Advisory Committee have also flagged the areas of Tallarook and Kilmore (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 592

• East as areas where there may be potential emerging issues. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 593

• However, since the implementation of the 2014 plan, the township that has been identified as one of (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 594

• the most significant risk areas for water contamination and public health risk within Mitchell Shire is (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 595

• the township of Waterford Park. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 596

• This township is located approximately 14.6 km south of Broadford, within the Clonbinane locality and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 597

• the Sunday Creek sub-catchment area. The township area, which is home to close to 200 residents, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 598

• covers around 18 hectares and is bounded to the west by Sunday Creek. Although not located within a (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 599

• Declared Special Water Supply area, its proximity to Sunday Creek and housing density poses a (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 600

• significant risk. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 601

• Although this area remains un-sewered, historical planning decisions have allowed subdivision of the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 602

• area into allotments of around 800-1000m2. This allotment size is well below the required 4000m2 for (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 603

• unsewered lots specified within the current Low Density Residential Zone Planning criteria outlined in (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 604

• the planning scheme permit requirements. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 605

• As a result of this lot size, it is almost impossible for landowners to meet the requirement for all (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 606

• wastewater to be treated and retained within the boundaries of their lot. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 607

• Water sampling undertaken by Mitchell Shire Council’s Environmental Health Unit has (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 608

• demonstrated the presence of human faecal matter within the waters of Sunday Creek near the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 609

• township of Waterford Park. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 610

• Further investigation and water sampling is needed to confirm the source(s) of contamination (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 611

• and to support calls for prioritisation of wastewater solutions in this township. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 612

• Figure 3 – Aerial map of the Waterford Park locality on the left, and schematic of existing property (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 613

• boundaries shown on the right. Source: Weave search June 2023 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 614

• ï‚¡ Properties with known Onsite Wastewater Management Systems indicated by blue dots = 23 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 615

• ï‚¡ Properties with a dwelling but no permit record of an Onsite Wastewater Management System (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 616

• in the Tech One Property and Rating Database Total = 73 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 617

• ï‚¡ Properties with no current dwelling = 3 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 618

• Mitchell Shire Council understands that taking a ‘compliance-based’ approach to this issue is futile. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 619

• With such limited land with which to work, landowners are unlikely to be able to solve the problem of (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 620

• effectively treating and discharging their wastewater within their allotment boundaries even with a (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 621

• transition to the more efficient onsite wastewater management systems approved for use today. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 622

• Instead, other solutions need to be found. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 623

• Identified Risk – Lack of Understanding and community awareness of Onsite Wastewater (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 624

• Management obligations and risks (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 625

• An ongoing area of identified risk remains a lack of understanding and awareness of Onsite Wastewater (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 626

• Management and its importance in water quality, the natural environment, and public health. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 627

• With increasing development of the municipality there have been significant changes to the population (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 628

• demographic of Mitchell Shire in the last decade. The combination of new landowners who have moved (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 629

• to the area seeking a country lifestyle, others looking for more affordable housing options, and a (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 630

• transition to a more culturally diverse population, the social fabric of the municipality has changed. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 631

• This poses a challenge as many landowners are unaware of their obligations in relation to onsite (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 632

• wastewater management and the newly introduced General Environmental Duty. Some residents may (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 633

• not be aware that their property relies on an onsite wastewater management system, where it is (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 634

• located, or how the system works. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 635

• This lack of awareness can lead to safety issues, as well contribute to system failures due to lack of (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 636

• maintenance, overloading, or lack of early detection of poor functioning. New residents may not be (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 637

• aware of permit conditions, where to access appropriate information relating to their system, or who (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 638

• to contact should issues arise. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 639

• For this reason, education and community awareness needs to remain an area of focus for the next five (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 640

• years of this plan, with a focus on transitioning messaging to newer delivery formats, utilising resources (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 641

• developed by other councils, government, and the Environment Protection Authority, as well as (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 642

• leveraging improved management of property data. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 643

• 4 Strategies (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 644

• The goal of the Mitchell Shire Council Onsite Wastewater Management Plan 2024-2029 is to clearly (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 645

• define key objectives and strategies relating to wastewater management that are consistent with the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 646

• expectations of the Mitchell Shire Community. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 647

• The plan also aims to outline set priorities and targets relating to Onsite Wastewater Management over (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 648

• the next 5 years that are both cost effective and deliverable, and to provide a framework and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 649

• mechanism that acknowledges the interplay between Planning Department and Environmental Health (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 650

• units of Council, the various external stakeholders, and the wider community. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 651

• Like every Council, resources are limited, so it is important to prioritise activities to focus on achievable (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 652

• outcomes that maximise the potential impacts of the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 653

• 4.1 Key Focus Areas for 2024-2029 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 654

• Based on the risk assessment process, the review of outcomes from the last Mitchell Shire Domestic (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 655

• Wastewater Plan, and Stakeholder input, there are five key focus areas for this plan. These key focus (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 656

• areas acknowledge the priority risks identified across the Shire and aim to build on the work already (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 657

• done to mitigate the potential impacts that Onsite Wastewater Management Systems pose to public (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 658

• health and the environment. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 659

• Finding Solutions Identification of (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 660

• for our Highest Legacy and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 661

• Risk Towns Ageing Systems (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 662

• Education (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 663

• and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 664

• Awareness (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 665

• Enhanced (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 666

• Regulatory (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 667

• Information (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 668

• Responsibility (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 669

• Management (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 670

• 4.2 Focus Area 1 - Finding Solutions for Our Highest Risk Towns (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 671

• Mitchell Shire Council contains several small, unsewered townships some of which are located within (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 672

• ‘Declared Special Water Catchment’ areas. Onsite wastewater management within these townships (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 673

• has been the focus of inspection activity and ongoing review since the implementation of the Mitchell (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 674

• Shire Council Domestic Wastewater Management Plan 2014. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 675

• However, it has been recognised that the ability for landowners and occupiers in some of these areas (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 676

• to comply with the requirements for the safe and effective management of onsite wastewater systems, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 677

• particularly within the township of Waterford Park, is nearly impossible due to the size of the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 678

• allotments. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 679

• Given that lots are too small to allow for safe discharge within property boundaries, rather than (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 680

• focussing on a futile ‘compliance’ style approach, Mitchell Shire Council is instead, prioritising efforts (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 681

• to work with these communities and water authorities to find a viable solution moving forward. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 682

• 4.2.1 – Key Outcomes and Strategies – High Risk Towns (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 683

• Focus Area 1 Time Frame (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 684

• Outcome 1 Advocate and partner with Goulburn Valley Water to determine the Formally (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 685

• best ‘Town-Based’ sewerage options for the township of Waterford write seeking (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 686

• Park options in 1st (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 687

• quarter 2024 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 688

• Outcome 2 Ensure that staff within Mitchell Shire’s Environmental Health Unit 2024 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 689

• are trained in how to utilise the assessment tool developed by the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 690

• Place-based Small-Town Wastewater Management Project (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 691

• Outcome 3 Identify funding opportunities for Onsite Wastewater improvements Ongoing (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 692

• in High-Risk areas (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 693

• Outcome 4 Partner with Goulburn Valley Water to engage with the community First half of (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 694

• of Waterford Park in relation to exploring and developing viable 2024 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 695

• solutions for wastewater management (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 696

• Outcome 5 Work with Goulburn Valley Water, Coliban Water, and Melbourne Ongoing (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 697

• Water to determine the most effective methods for council to Commence (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 698

• support information gathering activities aimed at improved 2024 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 699

• prioritisation and delivery of town-based solutions (for example (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 700

• strategic environmental monitoring or working to secure funding for (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 701

• town-level Land Capability Assessments). (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 702

• Outcome 6 Mitchell Shire’s Environmental Health Unit to actively work with the 2024 & 2025 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 703

• community of Waterford Park to implement shorter-term strategies (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 704

• aimed at ensuring that existing systems are functioning optimally to (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 705

• minimise risk to public health and the environment (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 706

• Outcome 7 Continued State level advocacy for facilitation of town-based Write to (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 707

• sewerage options for high-risk towns through grant programs and relevant (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 708

• increased funding for Water Authorities authorities (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 709

• and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 710

• government (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 711

• departments (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 712

• in 1st half (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 713

• 2024 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 714

• Ongoing (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 715

• Outcome 8 Continue to work with Water Authorities responsible for other high- Quarterly (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 716

• risk communities to identify opportunities for sewerage solutions (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 717

• and optimisation of current systems. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 718

• 4.3 Focus Area 2 - Education and Awareness (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 719

• Community education and awareness continues to be an area of high focus, especially with the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 720

• expansion of townships and development within the municipality. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 721

• Many new and existing property owners and occupiers may not be aware that their property relies on (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 722

• an onsite wastewater management system, and most will not be aware of their ‘General Environmental (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 723

• Duty’ responsibilities under the new Environment Protection Act 2017. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 724

• Education and awareness of the importance of wastewater management needs to be promoted across (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 725

• the entire community, with information readily accessible to all, delivered in a variety of formats, and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 726

• targeted to those that need it the most. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 727

• 4.3.1 – Key Outcomes and Strategies – Education and Awareness (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 728

• Focus Area 2 Time Frame (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 729

• Outcome 9 Conduct an annual review of all Council resources relating to Onsite Annually (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 730

• Wastewater Management to ensure they remain up-to-date and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 731

• easily accessible. This includes handouts, fact sheets, website (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 732

• content and templates for correspondence. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 733

• Outcome 10 Conduct targeted education programs to property owners and Annually (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 734

• occupiers in high-risk areas. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 735

• Outcome 11 Conduct regular Shire-wide education campaigns aimed at single Quarterly (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 736

• ‘key’ messages relating to Onsite Wastewater Management - such as (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 737

• maintenance of systems, ‘septic-safe’ household chemicals, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 738

• minimising overloading, servicing and de-sludging. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 739

• Outcome 12 Explore and make use of shared resources relating to Onsite Ongoing (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 740

• Wastewater Management Systems such as those developed by the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 741

• Environment Protection Authority and other councils. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 742

• Outcome 13 Develop resources promoting safety around Onsite Wastewater 2024 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 743

• Management Systems (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 744

• Outcome 14 Explore new ways to deliver key messages such as different formats Ongoing (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 745

• (video, social media platforms) and languages to improve the reach (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 746

• of important messages within the culturally and linguistically diverse (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 747

• communities of Mitchell Shire. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 748

• Outcome 15 Develop educational resources for new landowners and occupiers to 2024 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 749

• assist with awareness of whether their property has an onsite (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 750

• wastewater management system and what this means for them. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 751

• 4.4 Focus Area 3 - Enhanced Information Management (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 752

• Continual improvement of information capture and information management systems can only (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 753

• improve the monitoring and management of Onsite Wastewater Management Systems across the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 754

• municipality. Access to data can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Environmental Health Unit (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 755

• and Planning Department activities, allow for targeted education, monitoring of compliance, and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 756

• identification of potential problems or high-risk areas. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 757

• With increased digitisation of records and transition to newer information management software, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 758

• Mitchell Shire Council has already seen an improvement in the ability to utilise data relating to (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 759

• wastewater management, however there is significant potential to expand and customise both data (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 760

• capture and reporting abilities. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 761

• 4.4.1 – Key Outcomes and Strategies – Enhanced Information Management (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 762

• Focus Area 3 Time Frame (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 763

• Outcome 16 Explore the option to add Geographical Information System (GIS) 2024 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 764

• mapping layers to assist with identifying properties with access to (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 765

• reticulated sewerage (especially as this expands into new areas) and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 766

• those known to have Onsite Wastewater Management Systems. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 767

• Outcome 17 Ensure that Onsite Wastewater Management data, processes and Ongoing (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 768

• protocols continue to be integrated in new and upgraded Council (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 769

• Information management systems (CRM, Trim, Health Manager, GIS) (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 770

• to ensure ease of regulatory management. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 771

• Outcome 18 Work with Council’s Environmental Health contractor to expand the 2024-2025 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 772

• data fields available within the Health Manager program to: (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 773

• 1. Better assist with searches and day-to-day Environmental (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 774

• Health Team operations relating to properties with Onsite (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 775

• Wastewater Systems (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 776

• 2. Improve data capture relating to Onsite Wastewater (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 777

• Systems, such as recording of Land Capability Assessment (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 778

• outcomes, additional information relating to applications to (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 779

• install or alter, and ongoing permit conditions (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 780

• 3. To facilitate improved accuracy of reporting with relation to (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 781

• Onsite Wastewater Management Systems across the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 782

• municipality (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 783

• 4. To better inform risk management assessments relating to (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 784

• Onsite Wastewater Management Systems (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 785

• Outcome 19 Develop a search function within the Property and Rating Database 2025 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 786

• that identifies the transfer of ownership of properties with an Onsite (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 787

• Wastewater Management System so that new owners can be (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 788

• provided with key information relating to the management and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 789

• responsibilities associated with these systems within the first few (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 790

• months of moving. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 791

• Outcome 20 Work with the Environment Protection Authority and Water Ongoing (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 792

• Authorities to develop a unified approach to ensure that those (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 793

• properties that have access to reticulated sewerage are aware and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 794

• are encouraged to connect. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 795

• Outcome 21 Ensure that internal processes relating to Onsite Wastewater 2024 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 796

• Management System permit applications, especially those relating to (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 797

• upgrading or replacing systems, include checking against current (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 798

• sewer availability (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 799

• 4.5 Focus Area 4 - Identification of Legacy and Ageing Systems (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 800

• Identification of legacy and ageing systems is a problem common to all Councils. Historically, the level (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 801

• of regulation of onsite wastewater management systems was not as stringent, records may have been (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 802

• lost over time, and there may have been systems installed without council knowledge. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 803

• Even those systems that were granted council permits many decades ago may now pose a risk due to (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 804

• lack of maintenance, use of discharge methods that were once approved, but are now considered (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 805

• unacceptable, and reaching or exceeding their expected working lifespan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 806

• Mitchell Shire Council’s records include systems that date back to installation in the 1950’s, however (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 807

• most of the recorded systems date from the 1980’s and 1990’s to the current day. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 808

• 4.5.1 – Key Outcomes and Strategies – Identification of Legacy and Ageing Systems (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 809

• Focus Area 4 Time Frame (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 810

• Outcome 22 Explore the funding options for a short-term Environmental Health 2027 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 811

• position to review archived records of Onsite Wastewater (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 812

• Management System permit applications and to retrospectively add (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 813

• their details to the Health Manager Program (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 814

• Outcome 23 Retrospectively add details of Onsite Wastewater Management Ongoing (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 815

• Systems that are identified by the Environmental Health team during (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 816

• routine property inspections (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 817

• Outcome 24 Conduct community-wide surveys of landowners and occupiers in 2028 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 818

• high-risk areas aimed at identifying Onsite Wastewater Management (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 819

• Systems and their type and age. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 820

• Outcome 25 Develop a suite of resources for those landowners and occupiers 2024 - 2025 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 821

• faced with an ageing or failing system to assist them with identifying (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 822

• their options for repair, replacement, or upgrading, along with (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 823

• information about their responsibilities under current legislation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 824

• 4.6 Focus Area 5 - Regulatory Responsibility (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 825

• With the transition to a contracted Environmental Health provider in 2017, Mitchell Shire has set (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 826

• benchmarks and expectations in relation to the regulatory responsibility of Onsite Wastewater (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 827

• Management across the Shire. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 828

• Following the endorsement of the Mitchell Shire Council Domestic Wastewater Management Plan (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 829

• 2014, the contract agreement focused on providing all the referral advice for permit applications, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 830

• inspections, response to complaints, and administrative recording of Onsite Wastewater Management (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 831

• Systems. There was also a pro-active inspection requirement for high-risk areas, aiming to identify (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 832

• ageing and failing systems and to provide education directly to residents in these areas. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 833

• Moving forward, it is recognised that repeated inspections of compliant properties is unlikely to have a (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 834

• significant impact, and that resources may be better utilised in other ways. The Kernow contract (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 835

• agreement has recently been reviewed and updated to reflect this, focusing on inspections where the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 836

• risks are highest or where compliance issues have been identified. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 837

• 4.6.1 – Key Outcomes and Strategies – Regulatory Responsibility (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 838

• Focus Area 5 Time Frame (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 839

• Outcome 26 Review all internal regulatory procedures and documents relating to Annually (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 840

• Onsite Wastewater Management Systems to ensure that they reflect (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 841

• the current legislative requirements and to ensure a robust (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 842

• wastewater compliance process that includes procedures for (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 843

• managing non-compliance (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: inspection and compliance convert unknown or failing systems into identified risks with repair, upgrade, enforcement, or education pathways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 844

• Outcome 27 As new Guidelines and Toolkits are released to support the new As required (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 845

• Environment Protection Act 2017 and Environment Protection (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 846

• Regulations 2020, ensure their information and processes are (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 847

• incorporated into existing daily activities, internal procedures, and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 848

• documents (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 849

• Outcome 28 Provide ongoing training and up-skilling opportunities for Ongoing (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 850

• Environmental Health Unit and Planning Department Staff (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 851

• Outcome 29 Continue to consolidate the relationship between Environmental Ongoing (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 852

• Health Unit Staff and Planning Department Staff to ensure optimal (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 853

• synergy through shared understanding of responsibilities and review (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 854

• of referral procedure documents (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 855

• Outcome 30 Continue to develop and foster working relationships between Ongoing (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 856

• Mitchell Shire Council and key stakeholders such as Water (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 857

• Authorities and the Environmental Protection Authority including (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 858

• initiation of regular meetings with relevant staff (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 859

• Outcome 31 Continue to monitor and update development and strategic planning Ongoing (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 860

• policies in unsewered areas and townships to ensure that housing (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 861

• density, and allotment size continue to be sustainable. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 862

• 4.7 Estimated Costs of Implementing this Plan (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 863

• It is estimated that the costs of implementing the strategies of this plan will cost an average of $5000 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 864

• to $6000 each year for the duration of the plan. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 865

• In some years, the main costs incurred will relate to education campaigns, community awareness (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 866

• activities, and internal staff costs associated with promoting and publishing the information (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 867

• associated with these programs. In other years there will be costs associated with additional short- (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 868

• term contract staff or service providers to support and achieve the goals associated with specific tasks (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 869

• not able to be undertaken by existing staff. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 870

• Many of the activities outlined within the strategies in this plan form part of the continual (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 871

• improvement and expansion of ‘business as usual’ activities already undertaken by Council and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 872

• contracted staff. As such, some of the costs of delivering these actions will be absorbed into existing (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 873

• staffing and contractor budgets. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 874

• The Environmental Health service provided under contract by Kernow Environmental Health has the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 875

• facility for areas of focus to be nominated by Mitchell Shire Council in consultation with the contractor (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 876

• and has the facility for amendments to be made if more significant changes are required. With the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 877

• more significant contract amendments, an additional cost may be incurred. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 878

• Advocacy and exploration of state and federal level grants and programs that may assist with (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 879

• decreasing the risks associated with onsite wastewater management systems will need to be ongoing. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 880

• Grant and incentive programs may enable landowners and occupiers to update and replace their (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 881

• ageing systems, especially in the areas that are posing the greatest risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 882

• Mitchell Shire Council’s advocacy team are continually active, lobbying at all levels for better access (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 883

• to available services and programs for the wider Mitchell Shire Community. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 884

• 5 Reporting and Review (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 885

• 5.1 Plan review (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 886

• 5.1.1 Annual Review of Progress and Priorities (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 887

• This plan will be reviewed annually by the Manager–Community Amenity to assess progress towards (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: many failures are behavioural and maintenance-driven; awareness programs reduce loading, chemical damage, neglected servicing, and delayed repairs. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 888

• the objectives outlined in the plan and to ensure that it continues to reflect the priorities, processes (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 889

• and procedures of Mitchell Shire Council as well as meeting current legislation requirements and public (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 890

• health directives. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 891

• Reporting and Time Frame (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 892

• Review (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 893

• Outcome 32 Undertake annual review of progress towards objectives & provide Annually (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 894

• Council with a summary of progress. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 895

• Outcome 33 Review the delivery of externally contracted Environmental Health Annually (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 896

• Services related to plan objectives, and if required, negotiate (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 897

• updated contract key performance indicators. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 898

• Outcome 34 Publish a report of the progress towards the implementation of the 2027 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 899

• Mitchell Shire Council Onsite Wastewater Management Plan 2024- (Required (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 900

• 2029 on Council’s Website. every 3 yrs) (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 901

• 5.1.2 Development of Mitchell Shire Council’s Onsite Wastewater Management Plan 2030-2035 (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 902

• The plan will be reviewed and updated, and the risks reassessed in five years as required by current (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 903

• legislation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 904

• Appendix 1 – Water Corporations in Mitchell Shire (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 905

• In Victoria there are three layers of water management, each with a different role. There are the urban (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 906

• and rural water corporations that are responsible for supplying water to properties for different uses. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 907

• The urban water corporations are also responsible for sewerage services and wastewater treatment. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 908

• The third type of water management – the Catchment Management Authorities – are responsible for (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 909

• managing the catchments – the rivers, creeks, and waterways. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 910

• Rural Water Corporations are responsible for providing rural water supplies such as water for irrigation (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 911

• and stock purposes, water for environmental and recreational purposes, and raw water that the urban (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 912

• water corporations may treat so that it can be used for drinking – called potable water. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 913

• The Rural Water Corporation responsible for Mitchell Shire is Goulburn-Murray Water. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: Council can regulate and advocate, but sewerage solutions require water-corporation planning, external funding, and state-level prioritisation. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 914

• Urban water corporations are responsible for providing reticulated water and sewerage/wastewater (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 915

• services to both urban and rural customers across the state of Victoria. They also manage water storage (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 916

• facilities, wastewater treatment facilities, and are responsible for the planning of any expansions to the (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 917

• reticulated water and sewerage systems. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 918

• Water and sewerage services across Mitchell Shire are largely provided by Goulburn Valley Water. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 919

• Yarra Valley Water provides water and reticulated sewerage in the southern fringe of the Shire, notably (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 920

• to the townships of Wallan and Beveridge. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 921

• Coliban Water provides potable water (but no sewerage) to the township of Tooborac in the Shire’s (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 922

• Northwest. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 923

• Goulburn-Murray water, Goulburn Valley Water and Coliban Water are the legislated ‘referral (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 924

• authorities’ who assess and respond to planning applications relating to Onsite Domestic Wastewater (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: development feasibility follows servicing capacity; without reticulated sewer or sufficient disposal land, density increases shift private treatment limits onto public receptors. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 925

• Systems when they fall within the ‘Declared Special Water Catchment areas’. (these areas are listed (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 926

• within Schedule 5 of the Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994) (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 927

• Catchment Management Authorities are responsible for management of the natural waterways and (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 928

• floodplains within the catchment. Their responsibilities are outlined in the Catchment and Land (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 929

• Protection Act 1994. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the 2021 prevention model changes Council’s role from reacting to nuisance toward requiring owners to reduce foreseeable health and environmental risks. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 930

• Mitchell Shire has areas that fall within the authorities of: (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 931

• Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 932

• North Central Catchment Management Authority (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 933

• Melbourne Water (previously Port Phillp and Westernport Catchment Management Authority) (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 934

• You can learn more about the role of each of these bodies by visiting water.vic.gov.au. You can (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 935

• also utilise the search function to find out which of these Authorities and Corporations are (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 936

• responsible for water services at a particular address. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 937

• Appendix 2 – Sub Catchments within Mitchell Shire (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 938

• Map of the 19 sub catchment areas in Mitchell Shire taken from the Geographical Information System. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 939

• All known wastewater system data was plotted against these areas for the risk calculation spreadsheet (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: risk assessment depends on spatially searchable records; when databases disagree, Council must treat uncertainty as a risk rather than as evidence of safety. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 940

• analysis. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 941

• Appendix 3 – Declared Special Water Catchment Areas within (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 942

• Mitchell Shire (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 943

• There are 134 Declared Special Water Supply Catchment Areas (formerly known as Proclaimed Water (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 944

• Supply Catchments) within Victoria. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 945

• Source: https://vro.agriculture.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/vrosite.nsf/pages/dwsc_vic (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 946

• Within Mitchell Shire, all of the McIvor Creek and Pohlman Creek and Back Creek sub catchments along (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 947

• with parts of the Mollison Creek, Sunday Creek and Mt Disappointment sub catchments are located (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: the binding constraint is physical lot capacity; small lots near Sunday Creek cannot reliably absorb all wastewater onsite, so town-based infrastructure becomes the feasible pathway. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 948

• Hatched areas indicate (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 949

• Declared Special Water (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 950

• Catchment Areas (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: wastewater risk travels through water pathways; catchment position converts a property failure into a public-health and ecosystem exposure problem. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 951

• within these areas. Localities include, Tooborac, Pyalong, NullaVale, Glenhope, Glenhope East, (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 952

• MiaMia, Heathcote South and Clonbinane. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 953

• Appendix 4 – Soil Risk Categories within Mitchell Shire (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 954

• This map of soil risk has been taken directly from the Mitchell Shire Council Domestic Wastewater Plan (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Evidence note 955

• 2014. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Mechanism: this fact contributes to the plan’s risk chain by linking onsite treatment, land capability, regulatory responsibility, and development feasibility. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)
• Development feasibility implication: the fact should be tested against sewer availability, lot size, land capability, catchment sensitivity, system age, and records quality before intensification or replacement is treated as feasible. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

Bottom Line

Mitchell’s 2024-2029 onsite wastewater plan is a risk triage and development-feasibility control. Its strongest numbers are 3,149 known Health Manager systems, 3,068 GIS-linked records, a 5,000-property 2014 estimate, 548 install applications from 2014-2022, 19 sub-catchments, over 700 high-risk Tooborac and Pyalong inspections since 2017, and 34 implementation outcomes. Its strongest planning conclusion is that inherited small-lot settlements such as Waterford Park cannot be made feasible by ordinary individual compliance alone. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)

For assessment work, the operational rule is direct: resolve sewer availability, lot size, catchment sensitivity, soil and groundwater evidence, system age, and records quality before treating additional development as feasible. Where those facts are missing, the plan’s own method pushes toward high-risk banding rather than optimistic assumptions. (Source: onsite-wastewater-management-plan-2024-2029-with-consultation-changes.txt)