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A Riverina farmer who failed to act on a letter notifying them of an extraction limit on a bore must now pay a $56,000 fine and $70,000 in court costs.
NRAR officers will visit properties around Dubbo and Mudgee over the next four weeks to check compliance with the non-urban metering rules.
NRAR has started a prosecution against an irrigator from the Kempsey region after a series of alleged offences near nationally significant wetlands.
A Riverina irrigator has been convicted and fined for illegally taking over 7000ML of water from the at-risk Murrumbidgee Deep Groundwater Source.
A Griffith irrigator has been convicted and fined for breaching their bore extraction limit by over 97ML during a period of drought.