Wolston Creek from Forestwood Place
Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference
A lawful approach from Forestwood Place, with caveats.
The chain below runs entirely across land the public has an established right to be on. It is a legal line, not a path: nothing here has been surveyed on the ground.
On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.
Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature
The start is at -27.56900, 152.88487
That is Forestwood Place, where the walk below begins — 7.1 km of it. Every link here goes to that coordinate and never to the feature itself, because a driving route to a waterfall is a driving route into the country above one.
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-27.56900, 152.88487
The record does not say what reaches the start The roads layer leaves trafficability unstated on most of its rows, and it is unstated here. That is an absence of evidence, not an ordinary road: treat the last stretch as unresearched.
The coordinate is where the recorded way begins, read off the same layers as the walk. What the record says about a vehicle is above, and it describes this point rather than the drive to it. Whether the road is sealed, gated, or open today, and where a car may lawfully be left, are none of them things these records say — so treat the last few kilometres as unresearched, and the mapping service's route to them as its own work, not ours.
The chain, leg by leg Computed from cadastral geometry; never walked
| # | Runs along | Parcel / reference | Mapped along it | Distance | Bearing | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Road reserve | 928604 | nothing mapped | 180.5 m | 280.1° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 2 | Road reserve | 928642 | nothing mapped | 19.8 m | 346.1° NNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 3 | Road reserve | 929364 | nothing mapped | 99.5 m | 70.4° ENE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 4 | Road reserve | 4257300 | nothing mapped | 169.4 m | 72.5° ENE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 5 | Road reserve | 4249130 | nothing mapped | 65.2 m | 10.6° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 6 | Road reserve | 4249092 | nothing mapped | 20.2 m | 10.6° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 7 | Road reserve | 4249054 | nothing mapped | 178.5 m | 17.0° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 8 | Road reserve | 4248788 | nothing mapped | 154.9 m | 10.7° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 9 | Road reserve | 4250118 | nothing mapped | 31.3 m | 10.8° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 10 | Road reserve | 4248712 | nothing mapped | 70.3 m | 339.2° NNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 11 | Road reserve | 4217362 | nothing mapped | 36.7 m | 10.4° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 12 | Road reserve | 4248636 | nothing mapped | 99.3 m | 32.1° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 13 | Road reserve | 4248104 | nothing mapped | 31.1 m | 9.7° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 14 | Road reserve | 4247914 | nothing mapped | 89.4 m | 358.7° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 15 | Road reserve | 4273754 | nothing mapped | 172.2 m | 4.4° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 16 | Road reserve | 4271512 | nothing mapped | 31.7 m | 10.4° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 17 | Road reserve | 4265660 | nothing mapped | 98.3 m | 25.5° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 18 | Road reserve | 4265622 | nothing mapped | 271.0 m | 7.8° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 19 | Road reserve | 4268624 | nothing mapped | 26.2 m | 9.7° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 20 | Road reserve | 4209268 | nothing mapped | 335.7 m | 8.5° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 21 | Road reserve | 4211396 | nothing mapped | 38.5 m | 9.7° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 22 | Road reserve | 4209154 | nothing mapped | 348.1 m | 14.2° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 23 | Watercourse bed | 4209382 | nothing mapped | 52.2 m | 98.8° E | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 24 | Watercourse bed | 4209420 | nothing mapped | 278.3 m | 132.3° SE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 25 | Watercourse bed | 2393773 | nothing mapped | 359.2 m | 125.7° SE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 26 | Watercourse bed | 2395521 | nothing mapped | 840.7 m | 71.4° ENE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 27 | Watercourse bed | 2395407 | nothing mapped | 665.8 m | 159.4° SSE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 28 | Watercourse bed | 2395445 | nothing mapped | 257.0 m | 240.2° WSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 29 | Watercourse bed | 1550819 | nothing mapped | 915.5 m | 245.1° WSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 30 | Watercourse bed | 1550857 | nothing mapped | 460.9 m | 135.6° SE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 31 | Watercourse bed | 1617851 | nothing mapped | 137.8 m | 142.8° SE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 32 | Watercourse bed | 1484395 | nothing mapped | 286.6 m | 131.0° SE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 33 | Watercourse bed | 1484433 | nothing mapped | 93.4 m | 141.1° SE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 34 | Watercourse bed | 1617889 | nothing mapped | 70.6 m | 159.8° SSE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 35 | Watercourse bed | 1497505 | nothing mapped | 97.7 m | 185.2° S | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| Total | no way mapped | 7083.5 m | Chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class | |||
Every leg above is computed from cadastral geometry. Nobody has walked it, and no part of it is a path on the ground: it is the line along which the public record establishes a right to be. Where a leg names a way, that is what a managing authority has mapped down the same ground — it says nothing more about your right to be there, which the parcel already settled.
Caveats — what has to be said before walking this
- Corner-point junction. Two parcels in the chain meet at a single survey point. They are legally continuous public land, but the junction has no width on the ground.
- Watercourse crossing. The chain crosses a watercourse bed. The bed is State land by statutory inference, there is no structure, and the crossing is off in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 4209154 and 4209420 is 5.39 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 4209382 and 2393773 is 82.57 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 4209420 and 2395521 is 356.35 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2393773 and 2395407 is 834.67 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2395521 and 2395445 is 238.45 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2395407 and 1550819 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2395445 and 1550857 is 539.66 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1550819 and 1617851 is 441.61 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1550857 and 1484395 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1617851 and 1484433 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1484395 and 1617889 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1484433 and 1497505 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The gap between the parcels either side of this crossing could not be measured from the geometry, which is a reason for more caution, not less.
Following it on the ground No published way to follow
at least 3 hours out and back
at least 1½ hours there at least 1½ hours back
60 m up and 95 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 95 m.
Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track.
No directions are published for this approach. The chain above is a statement about permission, not a path, and turning a run of parcels into "walk north-east for 380 m" would tell you where to walk on evidence nobody holds — including where a way is mapped along it, because what was measured is the chain and not the way. Steps appear here only for a route that follows a surveyed way end to end.
How much climbing Read off the published contour layer
- Total climb
- 60.0 m
- Total descent
- 95.0 m
- Steepest sustained
- 21.0% over 71.6 m
- Contour interval
- 5.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
| Distance along | Height |
|---|---|
| 33.5 m | 40.0 m |
| 71.7 m | 45.0 m |
| 133.9 m | 50.0 m |
| 176.5 m | 55.0 m |
| 204.2 m | 55.0 m |
| 250.2 m | 50.0 m |
| 302.6 m | 45.0 m |
| 365.7 m | 40.0 m |
| 435.4 m | 35.0 m |
| 490.8 m | 35.0 m |
| 582.5 m | 35.0 m |
| 687.5 m | 30.0 m |
| 783.2 m | 25.0 m |
| 848.3 m | 20.0 m |
| 931.9 m | 15.0 m |
| 1078.9 m | 15.0 m |
| 1088.0 m | 15.0 m |
| 1089.2 m | 15.0 m |
| 1124.2 m | 15.0 m |
| 1126.7 m | 15.0 m |
| 1319.9 m | 20.0 m |
| 1441.0 m | 25.0 m |
| 1532.1 m | 30.0 m |
| 1597.0 m | 35.0 m |
| 1799.2 m | 35.0 m |
| 1930.1 m | 30.0 m |
| 1979.5 m | 25.0 m |
| 2046.8 m | 20.0 m |
| 2155.3 m | 15.0 m |
| 2278.7 m | 10.0 m |
| 2558.1 m | 5.0 m |
| 2784.1 m | 5.0 m |
| 2852.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 2918.0 m | 5.0 m |
| 2981.4 m | 5.0 m |
| 3123.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 3161.6 m | 5.0 m |
| 3443.4 m | 5.0 m |
| 3470.6 m | 10.0 m |
| 3601.3 m | 15.0 m |
| 3670.8 m | 20.0 m |
| 3740.8 m | 20.0 m |
| 3774.6 m | 15.0 m |
| 3797.7 m | 10.0 m |
| 3812.4 m | 5.0 m |
| 3819.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 3829.7 m | 5.0 m |
| 3885.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 3923.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 3954.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 3963.2 m | 5.0 m |
| 4035.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 4069.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 4134.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 4171.9 m | 10.0 m |
| 4264.8 m | 15.0 m |
| 4299.6 m | 15.0 m |
| 4306.8 m | 15.0 m |
| 4525.3 m | 15.0 m |
| 4557.0 m | 10.0 m |
| 4589.6 m | 5.0 m |
The profile is the height the contour layer already records, read along the same line the legs above describe. It is not a survey of a path: nothing here says the ground between two contours is even, and a layer of 5.0 m contours cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.
The line on the ground
Map
Route map: 35 legs from Forestwood Place, 7083.5 m in total.
What the colours mean
- Land — the council area the region is published under
- Water beyond the council boundary
- Freehold or leasehold — no public access
- National park / protected estate — public land
- Road reserve
- Watercourse
- Track recorded by the managing authority
- Contour, every 10 m of height — nothing is implied about the ground between two of them
- Tenure unresolved — treated as no access
- Where your device says you are, shown only if you press the locate button — read as a rough fix, not a position, and never sent anywhere
- A place with a published approach — the pin is a link to it
- A place with none — every one is listed under the map with its verdict in words
- Where a published approach starts — each one has a page of its own below
- The walk — the line the legs below describe, not a surveyed path
- The parcels it crosses — the evidence the walk is lawful
- Watercourse crossing — no structure, off in high flow
Names on the map come from the same official records as the rest of the page — road and track names from the cadastre and the access layer, watercourses and estates from their own layers. A feature the record does not name is left unlabelled rather than guessed at.
Sources, licences and dataset versions for everything this map draws.
Every figure the map would draw — parcel references, distances, bearings and the crossing gap — is written out in full on this page, so nothing is only visible on the map. If the map does not load, nothing has been lost.
What this verdict rests on Grades compose to the weakest link
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The destination sits on the parcel below Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 1497505, recorded tenure "Watercourse". Being at the destination and reaching it are separate questions, and this page answers only the second.
Cadastre and protected-area estate layers Attribution licensed
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Leg 1: 928604 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
180.5 m at 280.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 928604 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 2: 928642 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
19.8 m at 346.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 928642 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 3: 929364 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
99.5 m at 70.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 929364 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 4: 4257300 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
169.4 m at 72.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4257300 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 5: 4249130 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
65.2 m at 10.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4249130 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 6: 4249092 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
20.2 m at 10.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4249092 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 7: 4249054 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
178.5 m at 17.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4249054 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 8: 4248788 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
154.9 m at 10.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4248788 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 9: 4250118 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
31.3 m at 10.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4250118 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 10: 4248712 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
70.3 m at 339.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4248712 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 11: 4217362 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
36.7 m at 10.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4217362 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 12: 4248636 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
99.3 m at 32.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4248636 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 13: 4248104 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
31.1 m at 9.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4248104 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 14: 4247914 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
89.4 m at 358.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4247914 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 15: 4273754 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
172.2 m at 4.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4273754 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 16: 4271512 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
31.7 m at 10.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4271512 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 17: 4265660 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
98.3 m at 25.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4265660 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 18: 4265622 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
271.0 m at 7.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4265622 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 19: 4268624 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
26.2 m at 9.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4268624 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 20: 4209268 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
335.7 m at 8.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4209268 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 21: 4211396 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
38.5 m at 9.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4211396 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 22: 4209154 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
348.1 m at 14.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4209154 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 23: 4209382 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
52.2 m at 98.8°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 4209382 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 24: 4209420 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
278.3 m at 132.3°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 4209420 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 25: 2393773 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
359.2 m at 125.7°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 2393773 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 26: 2395521 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
840.7 m at 71.4°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 2395521 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 27: 2395407 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
665.8 m at 159.4°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 2395407 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 28: 2395445 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
257.0 m at 240.2°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 2395445 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 29: 1550819 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
915.5 m at 245.1°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1550819 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 30: 1550857 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
460.9 m at 135.6°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1550857 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 31: 1617851 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
137.8 m at 142.8°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1617851 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 32: 1484395 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
286.6 m at 131.0°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1484395 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 33: 1484433 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
93.4 m at 141.1°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1484433 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 34: 1617889 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
70.6 m at 159.8°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1617889 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 35: 1497505 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
97.7 m at 185.2°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1497505 Grade statutory_inference
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The chain is only as strong as its weakest link Statutory inference — evidence class
Confidence is not an average. It is the weakest class in the chain above, which is why a single inferred leg holds the whole route at statutory inference.
Composition rule: weakest grade wins Applied at build time
If something goes wrong
Emergency reference — read this to 000
- Location
- Wolston Creek
- Lot on plan
- 1497505
- Coordinates
- -27.56867, 152.90187 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- watercourse
What this approach was read from
- Cadastral data Queensland (DCDB), incl. easement layer — © State of Queensland (Department of Resources) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland LiDAR-derived contours (5 m) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland local government area boundaries — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-27
- Queensland place names gazetteer — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-16