You will need this permit if you intend to to build a structure or carry out an activity that may impact on a water resource.
Water resources include watercourses, lakes, dams, floodplains, groundwater, springs, wetlands, waterholes and catchment landscapes.
Water affecting activities that may require a permit include:
- constructing or enlarging dams or structures to collect or divert water
- building structures in, obstructing, or depositing solid materials in a watercourse, lake or floodplain (e.g. erosion control, construction of water crossings or dumping material)
- excavating material from a watercourse, lake or floodplain (e.g. excavating or cleaning soaks, waterholes and on-stream dams)
- destroying vegetation in a watercourse, lake or floodplain (e.g. removal of reeds)
- draining or discharging water or brine into a watercourse or lake (e.g. desalination waste, stormwater including urban discharge, drainage and salinity control)
- drilling, deepening and back filling wells, bores and groundwater access trenches.
For certain activities listed above, you will need to apply through to the relevant landscape management region.
