Engage Limestone Coast Landscape Board
Under the Landscape South Australia Act 2019 water allocation plans must be reviewed on a comprehensive basis at least once every 10 years. A review of the 2009 Water Allocation Plan for the Padthaway Prescribed Wells Area commenced in 2019. Through the review process it was identified that some amendment was needed. These key changes were consulted on in 2021. A consultation draft of the water allocation plan is now available for comment.
A water allocation plan is a legal document that sets out the rules for managing the take and use of prescribed water resources to ensure resource sustainability. It is developed in partnership with the community, industry and key stakeholders.
Water is a precious resource. There is a limit to how much is available for use on an ongoing basis so it is important to provide certainty to current and future users of water, particularly to those whose livelihoods depend on it. A water allocation plan provides that certainty, giving consideration to environmental, social and economic needs to ensure long term sustainability and security.
The current water allocation has been successful in sustainably managing the resource. Due to this, much of the plan will remain unchanged except where changes are required to meet legislative requirements.
The key concepts introduced under the consultation draft are highlighted below. Further information can be found in the factsheets:
The resource is generally in good condition and current allocations are adequate and equitable.
While groundwater levels have are generally stable, groundwater salinity trends are variable with wells displaying decreasing, stable and increasing trends across the prescribed wells area since the adoption of the 2009 plan. These variable trends are underpinned by a range of different drivers. Salinity trends have been thoroughly explored with additional modelling and potential impacts by extraction are addressed in the consultation draft Plan.
The two-month consultation period of the draft Padthaway Water Allocation Plan is now closed. Thank you for your feedback.
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Wednesday 3 May 2023
The Limestone Coast Landscape Board welcome the Padthaway community to a public consultation meeting which will present the consultation draft of the Padthaway Water Allocation Plan including the key concepts developed in collaboration with the Stakeholder Advisory Group.
Thursday 4 May 2023
Monday 8 May 2023
If you require further discussion or clarification on particular issues, 30 minute one-on-one sessions with Limestone Coast Landscape Board staff will be available on 4 May and 8 May in Padthaway.
The statutory two-month consultation period of the proposed Pasthaway Water Allocation Plan has now closed. Thank you for your feedback.
The Padthaway Water Allocation Plan Amendment Stakeholder Advisory Group provides objective advice and recommendations to the Limestone Coast Landscape Board towards the sustainable use, conservation and management of water in the Padthaway Prescribed Wells Area.
The Stakeholder Advisory Group met regularly to review the current WAP and consider new information about water policy and science, discuss options for better management which helped define an approach to address issues for the revision and amendment of the Plan.
A copy of minutes from each meeting is available by selecting the meeting date below.
September 2019
October 2019
December 2019
February 2020
March 2020
May 2020
July 2020
August 2020
September 2020
October 2020
December 2020
March 2021
August 2021
September 2021
November 2021
September 2022
The Limestone Coast Landscape Board acknowledges and respects the traditional owners of the ancestral lands and waters of the Limestone Coast. We acknowledge the elders past, present and future and we respect the deep feelings of attachment and relationships of Aboriginal Peoples to Country including the language groups: Meintangk, Potaruwutij, Bunganditj, Tatiara/Ngarkat, Tanganekald (Southern Clans) and Ngarrindjeri.
Artwork by: Marie Clarke
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