Kariong Sand and Soil Supplies Facility

Against the project to ensure protection of endangered vegetation. Prostanthera junonis is local native vegetation and is considered endangered by both Conservation status in NSW and Commonwealth status (see https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10678 for details) due to significant habitat loss.

Against the project to ensure protection of endangered vegetation. Hibbertia procumbens is local native vegetation and is considered endangered by Conservation status in NSW (see https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10401) due to habitat loss and is susceptible to extinction in NSW from human-induced events.

Although the proposal states that the vegetation will not be affected, it is not guaranteed that will be or remain the case. It is not known if the significant increase in handling, processing and storing of building materials and building waste will impact the endangered vegetation. Similarly the further developing of the site, the proposed increase in trucks, machinery and the breaking down of materials will add various pollutants, debris and/or dust to the air quality, and the overall increase in size of operations, increased people working on site, etc. cannot be guaranteed not to negatively impact upon the endangered vegetation. If the endangered vegetation is killed by the increased operations, by people "accidentally" wandering over and trampling the plants, etc. then there would be nothing to stop Kariong Sand and Soil Supplies from making further proposals to expand operatons to the rest of the site in the future.

The vegetation and environment is sensitive and may possibly recover, with time and care, from an edangered state. It cannot recover however if it transitions from endangered to extinct.