Pesticide Notification Plan
The Pesticide use Notification Plan has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Pesticides Regulation 1995 (the Regulation). The plan sets out how The City of Sydney will notify members of the community of pesticide applications it makes or allows to be made to outdoor public places that it owns or controls.
The Notification Plan aims to meet the community’s general right to know about pesticide applications made to outdoor public places that are owned or controlled by public authorities. The Plan allows members of the community to take action to avoid or minimize contact with pesticides, if they wish.
Pesticide Notification Plan
You can download a copy of the Pesticide Notification Plan here as a PDF file.
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- Pesticide Notification Plan | PDF 118Kb
Pesticides
The City of Sydney ensures that pesticides are applied to public places in a safe, responsible manner, minimising potential harm to the community and the environment. Pesticides are used in public places when necessary to eliminate weeds, to protect public property from pest damage, to protect the users of public places from nuisance or danger, and to meet the community expectations for aesthetically appealing parks and public open spaces.
Parks and Gardens
In our parks and gardens we use physical controls in preventing weed growth. This involves ensuring that there are no bare spaces in our garden beds to allow weeds to infiltrate and ensuring that there is always a thick organic mulch cover in the garden beds, and this includes hand weeding as part of our eradication program.
Roadways
In our roadways and public domain you can imagine it is quite difficult to prevent weeds over such a large area, The City’s contractor currently uses Round-Up for the roads and footways for the eradication of weeds. This product is registered with the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, and is the same product used in domestic gardening.
In order to maximise weed eradication while assisting environmental safety, an additive is also added to the herbicide and water spray mixtures. This serves the purpose of minimising drift of the atomised spray and assists in adhering the herbicide to the weed itself. This means we use less herbicide and it is reaching the target weeds in a controlled manner. The city also includes an organic bio degradable indicator dye to identify where herbicide has been used.
Please note, that it is the City’s priority is to use effective non toxic treatments or the lowest toxicity pesticides available to maintain safety in the public domain and to achieve the desired outcome.
Signage
Signage will be displayed on vehicles and equipment involved in the application of pesticides through out the LGA.
For Sports fields, ovals and courts, skate facilities and outdoor swimming pools,signage will be displayed at the main entrances of the facilities on the day of application and will remain in place after application until the end of the working day.
For reactive and emergency pesticide use in outdoor places adjacent to sensitive places, Council will provide notice by posting signs in the vicinity at the time of application.
Community Notification
The Plan sets out how The City will notify members of the community of pesticide applications made by Council and its contractors in public places. You can download the schedule of when public domain weed eradication will occur in your suburb. The schedule has been allocated on a week by suburb format.
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- Spray Schedule by Suburb | PDF 36Kb
Notification registration
The City invites owners and occupiers of sensitive sites to register their interest to receive a copy of Council’s annual program of pesticide application.
Sensitive places are sites and or facilities designated as sensitive place under Clause 11J (1) of the Pesticide Regulation defines a sensitive place to be any:
- School or pre-school
- Kindergarten
- Childcare centre
- Hospital
- Community health centre
- Nursing home
- A place declared to be a sensitive place by the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) now part of the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC).
If you would like to be informed of the City’s annual program for weed eradication please click on the link below to download a registration form that can be returned by fax.
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- Pesticide Notification Registration Form | PDF 83Kb
Material Safety Data Sheets
Below is a list of links to the MSDS’s of products used in Weed Eradication Services throughout the Local Government Area.
Note: The documents below are all PDF's located on external websites.
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Last Updated: Tuesday 12 August, 2008
