YepMatt80 said:Dredging seems a bit like a forest fire, if done right it's healthy for the system, if done wrong it can be devastating. Unfortunately most people just see fire and freak out without realising how the natural system works.
YepMatt80 said:Dredging seems a bit like a forest fire, if done right it's healthy for the system, if done wrong it can be devastating. Unfortunately most people just see fire and freak out without realising how the natural system works.
smokey22 said:As a owner of a dredge in the days when a miners right allowed you to work in a stream.
It was a hard days work to find colour and you could have a rewarding day on the clean up.
One thing I see you all missed was the huge greens push at the time to stop the water being
muddy. As we all know the sediment of the bottom goes through your dredge clouding the water
as it traveled down stream this was a shock and horror to the greens as you might drown the fish.
I have seen trail bike riders do more damage to bank walls that we ever did.
I had been working in a creek over 10 years and had not seen this great destruction the Greens were pushing
at the time. One day when working I looked up and saw a lady and police officer walking towards me
and the lady was saying you cannot work in this creek, I said why not have been for over 10 years and
I have a miners right. This country was born on gold and wool how far we have slipped backwards from
radical greens.
smokey22 said:As a owner of a dredge in the days when a miners right allowed you to work in a stream.
It was a hard days work to find colour and you could have a rewarding day on the clean up.
One thing I see you all missed was the huge greens push at the time to stop the water being
muddy. As we all know the sediment of the bottom goes through your dredge clouding the water
as it traveled down stream this was a shock and horror to the greens as you might drown the fish.
I have seen trail bike riders do more damage to bank walls that we ever did.
I had been working in a creek over 10 years and had not seen this great destruction the Greens were pushing
at the time. One day when working I looked up and saw a lady and police officer walking towards me
and the lady was saying you cannot work in this creek, I said why not have been for over 10 years and
I have a miners right. This country was born on gold and wool how far we have slipped backwards from
radical greens.
Dappa said:There are heaps of people using Dredgers poaching the creeks in the north east they just wait up till the parks knock offand work tho the night!! I was sampling up the Buckland and run into deer hunters who told me they saw a bloke with a pontoon it's a real problem here. In the last year I've seen people digging banks out with excavator's NO JOKE i was so angry people have been smashing the banks in eldy I have come aross a drift mine that was the size of a small bus right into the bank in a decomposing granite like i was looking at it like they must be crazy WTF ??? just last week i came across and camp were the was a pile of rubbish the size of a car and about 10-12 feet from there was a broad when i lifted it there was a 12 shaft freshly dug and just left there !!!! I rang Earth resources and they said we don't have the blokes or the money only 1 full time bloke and a part timer for the whole north east. There hopeless I don't know what to do??? People are destroying the creek i don't reckon it will be long and the will kick us out at this rate. I really would like to start a group up of people that could maybe help me have clean up days or something i really need help people are destroying the creek Its really bad![]()
Hurg said:Out of interest, when did it become illegal and what was the driving force behind the legislation?
G0lddigg@ said:"""""DREDGING IS ILLEGAL"""*****
Dr Lex Winter said:G0lddigg@ said:"""""DREDGING IS ILLEGAL"""*****
So is:
- moving more than one cubic meter of material in any 48 hour period. [/*]
- not putting all the rocks and materials you move back where you found them.[/*]
- using a water pump, or yabbee pump, or a bucket (lifting a bucket is a 'mechanical' force).[/*]
Basically all fossicking and prospecting is illegal besides metal detecting and putting the dirt back in the hole you got it from.
The legislation is absurd and needs to be re-evaluated given every prospector I have ever observed for more than an hour has broken two or three various parts of the Act.
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