You may need this permit if you intend to build a structure or carry out an activity that may impact on a water resource. Some activities can have adverse impacts on the health and condition of water resources and the ecosystems that depend on them, as well as on other water users.
Water affecting activities 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 some of the activities listed above, you will need to apply through to the relevant landscape management region.
