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Dredging in Australia for recreational activities IS illegal..
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<blockquote data-quote="Swinging &amp; digging" data-source="post: 428644" data-attributes="member: 2764"><p>We as a group are not negative.</p><p>The final say on dredging has been said, so no donations, petitions evidence etc will change the current situation.</p><p></p><p>Best to use your efforts to retain what minimal legal rights we have now.</p><p></p><p>The evidence used against dredging in Victoria is:</p><p></p><p>Mercury mobilasation.</p><p>Increased erosion of stream beds and banks with flooding as dredging loosens up stream bed material.</p><p>Increase in turbidity due to operating equipment in stream.</p><p>Damage to bankside vegetation.</p><p>Increased Noise pollution due to operating engines.</p><p></p><p>When dredging was legal in Victoria, quite a few operators never had licences.</p><p>Despite inspections from Mines Dept inspectors operators undercutting banks </p><p>where told not too, but continued to do so.</p><p>There was widespread illegal dredging in Streams not opened to gold dredging.</p><p>There was very widespread opposition to Gold Dredging in Victoria, by many</p><p>groups and individuals.</p><p></p><p>I can,t honestly see it been allowed again as the same problems and issues will</p><p>come up again but much worse this time with the numbers of people wanting to </p><p>do it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Swinging & digging, post: 428644, member: 2764"] We as a group are not negative. The final say on dredging has been said, so no donations, petitions evidence etc will change the current situation. Best to use your efforts to retain what minimal legal rights we have now. The evidence used against dredging in Victoria is: Mercury mobilasation. Increased erosion of stream beds and banks with flooding as dredging loosens up stream bed material. Increase in turbidity due to operating equipment in stream. Damage to bankside vegetation. Increased Noise pollution due to operating engines. When dredging was legal in Victoria, quite a few operators never had licences. Despite inspections from Mines Dept inspectors operators undercutting banks where told not too, but continued to do so. There was widespread illegal dredging in Streams not opened to gold dredging. There was very widespread opposition to Gold Dredging in Victoria, by many groups and individuals. I can,t honestly see it been allowed again as the same problems and issues will come up again but much worse this time with the numbers of people wanting to do it. [/QUOTE]
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