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<blockquote data-quote="Marked" data-source="post: 48945" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>The original Gazette where the list was created is dated 1881...and as a "list of lands reserved for public use", was to prevent settlement along rivers in water catchment areas. At some stage in recent history "the list" has been re-appropriated for it's current use of exemption from prospecting altogether...</p><p></p><p>My suggestion of a possible reason is only a guess, given anecdotal evidence of locals in one area in particular of the amount of activity on their stream during the height of "hobby dredging" in the 80's, which is also their source of drinking water, and the fact that most of the streams on "the list" are also in water catchment areas, and that the legislation allows for the managing authority of said "lands reserved for public use" to decide and regulate completely what uses those lands are put.</p><p></p><p>As to how impactive dredging, or even manual excavation, is to the stream bed compared to natural flood action is debatable - and as is suggested by the literature, at minimum, is likely to be largely influenced by the area of the stream bed affected. No one can argue that dredges would allow a great deal more volume of material to be processed than the current limitations of manual excavation, surely?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marked, post: 48945, member: 1246"] The original Gazette where the list was created is dated 1881...and as a "list of lands reserved for public use", was to prevent settlement along rivers in water catchment areas. At some stage in recent history "the list" has been re-appropriated for it's current use of exemption from prospecting altogether... My suggestion of a possible reason is only a guess, given anecdotal evidence of locals in one area in particular of the amount of activity on their stream during the height of "hobby dredging" in the 80's, which is also their source of drinking water, and the fact that most of the streams on "the list" are also in water catchment areas, and that the legislation allows for the managing authority of said "lands reserved for public use" to decide and regulate completely what uses those lands are put. As to how impactive dredging, or even manual excavation, is to the stream bed compared to natural flood action is debatable - and as is suggested by the literature, at minimum, is likely to be largely influenced by the area of the stream bed affected. No one can argue that dredges would allow a great deal more volume of material to be processed than the current limitations of manual excavation, surely? [/QUOTE]
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