Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WATER REGULATION 2016 - REG 101

101 Construction of new levees and modification of existing levees

(1) For assessing proposed development that is the construction of a new levee or the modification of an existing levee, the levee can be categorised as 1 of the following types of levees—

(a) category 1 levee;

(b) category 2 levee;

(c) category 3 levee.

(2) A
"category 1 levee" is a levee that has no off-property impact.

(3) A
"category 2 levee" is a levee—

(a) that has an off-property impact; and

(b) for which the affected population is less than 3.

(4) A
"category 3 levee" is a levee—

(a) that has an off-property impact; and

(b) for which the affected population is at least 3.

(5) In this section—

"affected population" , for a levee, means the total number of persons occupying all buildings on which the levee has a significant impact.

"levee property" —

(a) means the lot or parcel of land on which a levee is situated; and

(b) includes another lot or parcel of land that is contiguous with the lot or parcel mentioned in paragraph (a) and owned by the same entity.

"off-property impact" , for a levee, means an impact the levee has on people, property or the environment outside the levee property.

"significant impact" , of a levee on a building, means each of the following—

(a) an increase, caused by the levee, of more than 5cm in the flow height of water over the floorboards of the building;

(b) an increase, caused by the levee, of more than 0.2 m/s in the flow velocity of water over the floorboards of the building.