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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: 520267" data-attributes="member: 2764"><p>If you were dredging in Victoria when legal you were required to also have a Dredging Licence, and the Mines Department made Rivers and Creeks available or not available, depending on a number of factors including popularity of a particular stream. ( A location been too popular was often used to withdraw a stream as opposition to dredging was widespread and significant conflict occurred ). I don't think the point about muddy water was missed as you were saying? Dredging was banned State wide in November 1990 in Victoria. The Dredgers were able to have the Government review the situation after much lobbying in 1994, the outcome of a over 300 page report stated that a number of issues were raised about dredging: Turbidity of the water ( Muddy Waters ), Erosion of bed and banks of a stream, Mobilisation of mercury and other toxins within the stream, noise from Dredge motors, conflict with other user groups, effect on fish and frogs and eggs of both. After input from groups opposed and the Dredgers who supported it, the final recommendation was to leave the ban in place.</p><p></p><p>After 30 years a lot has changed in regards to Prospecting in Victoria: Many more places have reverted to National Parks, more streams are off limits to prospecting. There are lots more prospectors now, more high bankers in use now than gold dredgers in the 1980s.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Swinging & digging, post: 520267, member: 2764"] If you were dredging in Victoria when legal you were required to also have a Dredging Licence, and the Mines Department made Rivers and Creeks available or not available, depending on a number of factors including popularity of a particular stream. ( A location been too popular was often used to withdraw a stream as opposition to dredging was widespread and significant conflict occurred ). I don't think the point about muddy water was missed as you were saying? Dredging was banned State wide in November 1990 in Victoria. The Dredgers were able to have the Government review the situation after much lobbying in 1994, the outcome of a over 300 page report stated that a number of issues were raised about dredging: Turbidity of the water ( Muddy Waters ), Erosion of bed and banks of a stream, Mobilisation of mercury and other toxins within the stream, noise from Dredge motors, conflict with other user groups, effect on fish and frogs and eggs of both. After input from groups opposed and the Dredgers who supported it, the final recommendation was to leave the ban in place. After 30 years a lot has changed in regards to Prospecting in Victoria: Many more places have reverted to National Parks, more streams are off limits to prospecting. There are lots more prospectors now, more high bankers in use now than gold dredgers in the 1980s. [/QUOTE]
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