Do you need a permit?
If you are planning to complete earthworks on your property or for someone else, a series of new fact sheets available on the SAAL website will help explain where advice needs to be sought before you turn the key.
These works may affect a watercourse, which makes them a water affecting activity.
Water Affecting Activities (WAA) are activities that have the potential to adversely affect the health and condition of surface water resources (including watercourses, lakes, wetlands, floodplains and dams), water or ground dependent ecosystems, and other water users.
Regional landscape boards regulate these activities through Water Affecting Activity Control Policies, which outline activities that may require a permit.
The provision of water for stock sits on this list of activities, as well as:
- The construction, modification (including enlargement) or removal of dams or structures to collect or divert water
- Building structures, or obstructing, or depositing solid materials in a water course, lake or floodplain
- Excavating material from a watercourse, lake or the floodplain of a watercourse
- Taking water from a watercourse, lake, spring or waterhole.
If you are planning to undertake any of the activities listed you are advised to contact SAAL the Landscape Board for advice, prior to starting work.
Find out more on the SAAL website at Landscape South Australia - SA Arid Lands | Water affecting activities
