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Gold diggers damage local creek

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The Adelaide Hills Council says “significant” damage has been done to a Bridgewater creek because of amateur gold prospectors using heavy machinery.

The council has received complaints for over two years about gold prospecting using “motorised equipment” in the Cox Creek, a stream which runs through the Piccadilly Valley from near Uraidla and joins the Onkaparinga River near Mylor.

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