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Dredging in Australia for recreational activities IS illegal..
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<blockquote data-quote="AussieChris" data-source="post: 323493" data-attributes="member: 4915"><p>Went for a drive over the weekend did a loop of Sofala to Bathurst, plenty of people out on the Turon enjoying the Easter break. Stopped at Coles bridge for a look and discovered a guy I had met there in the past blatantly dredging pretty much directly under the bridge. He had a pretty sophisticated system multiple pumps and a fully decked out work truck with hoses and fittings galore, venturi nozzles and a homemade water monitor he was using to dig holes with just laying there in the open. He had even clamped some sort of white PVC pipe junction to a fallen tree I asked him if he was concerned about running into the rangers and he shrugged, he knew what he was doing was wrong. I told him they had pulled me up in the past for highbanking down from the bridge and he jumped up and down for a bit saying in broken english something along the lines "highbanking is ok, dredging is illegal". I laughed at him and asked why he was dredging then and told him he will wreck it for all of us if he is caught that I wouldn't be surprised if the whole area got shut down. He didn't really give a toss and just went back to what he was doing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AussieChris, post: 323493, member: 4915"] Went for a drive over the weekend did a loop of Sofala to Bathurst, plenty of people out on the Turon enjoying the Easter break. Stopped at Coles bridge for a look and discovered a guy I had met there in the past blatantly dredging pretty much directly under the bridge. He had a pretty sophisticated system multiple pumps and a fully decked out work truck with hoses and fittings galore, venturi nozzles and a homemade water monitor he was using to dig holes with just laying there in the open. He had even clamped some sort of white PVC pipe junction to a fallen tree I asked him if he was concerned about running into the rangers and he shrugged, he knew what he was doing was wrong. I told him they had pulled me up in the past for highbanking down from the bridge and he jumped up and down for a bit saying in broken english something along the lines "highbanking is ok, dredging is illegal". I laughed at him and asked why he was dredging then and told him he will wreck it for all of us if he is caught that I wouldn't be surprised if the whole area got shut down. He didn't really give a toss and just went back to what he was doing. [/QUOTE]
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