Groundwater licence application for market garden (asparagus), Lake Clifton

In January 1993 the Environmental Protection Authority received an application to irrigate 2ha of asparagus on Lot 4 Service Road, Lake Clifton. The proponent, Mr C A Evans, proposes to irrigate a maximum area of 2ha and use low quantities of fertiliser and ground water for irrigation. The ground to be irrigated consists of porous soils with a significant capacity to demobilise excess nutrients, has no defined surface drainage channels to Lake Clifton and is at its nearest point 300m from the shoreline of Lake Clifton.