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Exempt rivers and creeks Victoria - information and questions
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<blockquote data-quote="Marked" data-source="post: 27017" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>I think that says it all.</p><p></p><p>My feelings are that prosecutions could be laid <u>and stick</u> under various other laws to do with harm to the environment if a prospector decided to be overly destructive, fail to clean up after themselves, or use mechanized excavation methods. </p><p></p><p>Suggesting that prospecting on any streams on "the list" is not legal reduces the need to police prospectors, if the great majority decide to "play it safe".</p><p></p><p>Examples of documented prosecutions would be needed in order to completely remove the "grey" area in this, not just a telephone conversation. I fear even an email reply would need to cite the relevant Acts and specific parts of those said Acts that apply to clearly be able to state one way or the other...a situation that I feel would be avoided by any official to prevent a flood of prospectors to areas that remain largely untouched at the present time.</p><p></p><p>"Heritage Rivers" are another case entirely, it should be pointed out - from what I have noticed, most of these are on "the list", and 200metres either side of the river bank is also included in the prohibited area.</p><p></p><p>Edit: Having read through the Heritage Rivers Act, and only finding reference to timber felling and water diversion as specifically prohibited activities in the schedule 1 list (rivers, streams, creeks), with extraction industries and mining only applying to schedule2 (natural catchment areas list) and with the protection of recreation activities (is not prospecting one of those?) as an express purpose of the Act, I also have my doubts as to how accurate the prohibition of prospecting is from these many of these areas as well. (But I am no authority, so make your own assessment of the facts).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marked, post: 27017, member: 1246"] I think that says it all. My feelings are that prosecutions could be laid [u]and stick[/u] under various other laws to do with harm to the environment if a prospector decided to be overly destructive, fail to clean up after themselves, or use mechanized excavation methods. Suggesting that prospecting on any streams on "the list" is not legal reduces the need to police prospectors, if the great majority decide to "play it safe". Examples of documented prosecutions would be needed in order to completely remove the "grey" area in this, not just a telephone conversation. I fear even an email reply would need to cite the relevant Acts and specific parts of those said Acts that apply to clearly be able to state one way or the other...a situation that I feel would be avoided by any official to prevent a flood of prospectors to areas that remain largely untouched at the present time. "Heritage Rivers" are another case entirely, it should be pointed out - from what I have noticed, most of these are on "the list", and 200metres either side of the river bank is also included in the prohibited area. Edit: Having read through the Heritage Rivers Act, and only finding reference to timber felling and water diversion as specifically prohibited activities in the schedule 1 list (rivers, streams, creeks), with extraction industries and mining only applying to schedule2 (natural catchment areas list) and with the protection of recreation activities (is not prospecting one of those?) as an express purpose of the Act, I also have my doubts as to how accurate the prohibition of prospecting is from these many of these areas as well. (But I am no authority, so make your own assessment of the facts). [/QUOTE]
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