Water Affecting Activities

Do you want to cleanout, enlarge or build a dam, pipe a watercourse or construct a water crossing point?

These are just a few examples of Water Affecting Activities that may require a permit.

For all water affecting activities you are required to complete a permit application form. Please download the relevant form below, complete and send with the permit fee to Water Resources Officer-Water, Natural Resources Centre, 37 Dauncey St, Kingscote.

• Application for permit for a water affecting activity: Respect of a watercourse, floodplain of a watercourse, lake or bank of a lake PDF (77 kB) 
• Application for permit for a water affecting activity: Erection, construction or enlargement of a dam, wall or other structure that will collect or divert water PDF (52 kB)  

Factsheets

If unable to download the factsheets below please contact the Natural Resources Centre on (08) 8553 4444 or email Kinrc@sa.gov.au and a factsheet will be posted to you.

• Water Affecting Activities PDF (1.2 MB)
• Farm dams PDF (1.6 MB) 
• Low flow bypass construction Fact Sheet A: On-stream dams — Flow threshold 1–70 L/s PDF (803 kB)
• Low flow bypass construction Reference Sheet A — Design dimension, figures and tables PDF (601 kB)
• Low flow bypass construction Fact Sheet B: Off-stream dams — Flow threshold 10–52 L/s (1.5 MB)
• Low flow bypass construction Fact Sheet C: Off-stream diversion with 50:50 flow split (5–2000 L/s) (1.5 MB)
• Water for mining in SA: Water for Good Action 48 

Links

Kangaroo Island Natural Resources Management Plan Volume 3: Regulatory and Operational Policy
 

For more information on water allocation planning visit the Water for Good website.

Contact:

Jo Sullivan, Water Resources Officer, ph: (08) 8553 4444.