Townsville Marine Precinct Project

Project overview*

EIS status	Approved with conditions
Description	Reclamation and development of approximately 34 hectares of land for marine-dependent industries.
Proponent	Port of Townsville Limited
Location/s	Port of Townsville. Map
Local government/s	Townsville City Council
Key features	pile moorings trawler berths marine industry allotments, including a commercial slipway, barge ramp, ship-lift and docking facility breakwater

* Project information supplied by proponent and subject to change.

Key environmental impact statement (EIS) documents

Coordinator-General's report on EIS ( 836 KB), March 2010
Supplementary EIS ( 271 KB), January 2010
- Appendix A - Detailed design concepts ( 951 KB)
- Appendix B - Flood modelling outputs from Aecom ( 632 KB)
- Appendix C - Sediment trapping capacity of Lot 773C ( 1.58 MB)
- Appendix D - Offset commitments ( 166 KB)
Environmental impact statement, September 2009
- Executive summary ( 291 KB)
  - Figure 1 - Reference design ( 386 KB)
- Complete EIS ( 10.89 MB)
  - Contents, exective summary, glossary of terms ( 864 KB)
  - Section 1 - Introduction ( 1.19 MB)
  - Section 2 - Description of the project ( 979 KB)
  - Section 3 - Environmental values and management of impacts
    - Part A ( 1.70 MB)
    - Part B ( 1.61 MB)
    - Part C ( 2.81 MB)
    - Part D ( 1.04 MB)
    - Part E ( 889 KB)
  - Section 4 - Social values and management of impacts ( 173 KB)
  - Section 5 - Impacts on state and local economies and management of those impacts ( 338 KB)
  - Section 6 - Hazard and risk assessment ( 220 KB)
  - Section 7 - Matters of national environmental significance ( 194 KB)
  - Section 8 - Environmental management plan ( 233 KB)
  - Section 9 - Conclusions and recommendations ( 120 KB)
  - Section 10 - References ( 275 KB)
- Also available from State Library of Queensland (record number: 1198978)
Terms of reference for EIS ( 618 KB), April 2009
Initial advice statement ( 317 KB), July 2008
- Figure 1 - Concept layout ( 131 KB)
- Figure 2 - Proposed development area ( 825 KB)
- Figure 3 - Townville Port Authority marine precinct ( 177 KB)
- Appendix A - Essential habitat map ( 724 KB)
- Appendix B - Wildlife online extract ( 100 KB)
- Appendix C - Threatened and migratory fauna species ( 42 KB)

EIS process

Australian Government approval

Commonwealth Minister for the Environment's approval of controlled action, subject to conditions.

Last updated: 09 Nov 2021