Draft Mid Coast Bush Fire Risk Management Plan on Public Exhibition Myall Coast Myall Coast - popup ad by News Of The Area - Modern Media - November 15, 2023 Fuel Management map from the BFRMP, colour-coded to show focus areas and historical burns. PUBLIC exhibition of the Draft Mid Coast Bush Fire Risk Management Plan (BFRMP) has begun, running Monday 6 November to Monday 18 December 2023. The BFRMP details the types of work scheduled to deal with bushfire risks and hazards in specific areas, ranging from community engagement events to hazard reduction activities. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981 8882. Email us – media@newsofthearea.com.au The draft document comprehensively includes Risk Assessment, Treating Risk, Communication and Consultation, Performance Monitoring and Review. There are four main maps that categorise the Mid Coast fire region in terms of Risks to Assets classed as Economic, Residential, Cultural and Environmental, using the risk colour-code ‘red = high’ to ‘blue = low’. Among the twelve ‘Focus Areas’ within the Mid Coast identified as “having unacceptable risk and requiring additional, targeted treatment strategies are ‘Myall Lakes NP – Ramsar’; Tea Gardens/Pindimar; Bulahdelah/Markwell; and Barrington Tops NP, which will be addressed annually as part of the BFMC Annual Works Program.” There is also a ‘Fuel Management Register’, indicating how natural and other fuel sources need to be overseen and hazard-reduced, based on risk to surrounding areas, among other factors. “The area in which we live faces very real risk, it’s in everybody’s best interest to go see the options,” Pindimar/Tea Gardens Rural Fire Service Brigade Captain David Bright told NOTA. “Go down to the Council office at Tea Gardens and look there, or go online and check it out – however you can, just make sure you do it.” Under the Public Exhibition process, the draft Mid Coast Bush Fire Risk Management Plan will be available online at the NSW RFS and Service NSW websites, and in paper form at MidCoast Library in Bulahdelah (63 Stroud Street), MidCoast Council Customer Service Point at 6 Church Lane, Stroud, and Myall Street, Tea Gardens, among other locations within the MidCoast and Port Macquarie-Hastings LGAs. Any public enquiries should be directed to Fire Control on 1300 643 262, and the Draft Plan is available at www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/plan-and-prepare/managing-bush-fire-risk/bush-fire-management-committees/mid-coast. By Thomas O’KEEFE Environmental Risk map from the BFRMP – the whole area is at some level of risk, redder is higher.
