Water Affecting Activities Policy
The Kangaroo Island Water Affecting Activity Control Policy:
- makes provision for the requirement to have a permit under the Landscape South Australia 2019 Act to undertake an activity specified in the policy;
- identifies the relevant authority for the purposes of the application and implementation of the policy under the Act;
- sets out matters that should be taken into account when a relevant authority is exercising a power to grant or refuse a permit;
- makes provision in relation to the conditions on the permit issues; and
- specifies rules in relation to taking water from a watercourse, lake or well or farm area or place.
Attachment 1 contains data and information referred to within the WAA Control Policy that are location-specific or are subject to change, including:
1. catchment/sub-catchment:
- names
- boundaries
- mean annual rainfall
- surface water yields
- water deemed taken
- water take limits
- water available for development and status
- percentage of land cleared
- area under commercial forestry
- sum of dam capacities
- threshold flow rates for calculating low flow bypass design specification
- minimum dam catchment area for the fitting of a low flow bypass
2. stream orders
3. references to supporting information
Attachment 1 will be updated as required to allow public access to the most recent data and information used by the KI Landscape Board relating to the assessment of WAA Permits and Development Applications.