By JAMIESON, Debbie in Queenstown A$1.2 MILLION plan to redirect the Shotover River and help mitigate flooding in Queenstown came a step closer to reality this week.

By BISHOP, Diane THE Otago Regional Council is taking no prisoners as it steps up its campaign against dirty dairy farmers. ORC land resource officer Bruce Monaghan said the Council would continue to prosecute farmers who applied dairy effluent to pasture beyond field capacity.

By LESLIE ANN HORGAN in QUEENSTOWN THE Lakes Environmental planner in charge of the Frankton marina has done a U-turn and is now supportive of the million-dollar 240- berth project.

By WILLIAMS, David The American owner of a high country farm near New Zealand's newest lake is a step closer to building earth mounds in a riverbed to protect his property from flooding.

By LESLIE ANN HORGAN in Queenstown THE landslide dam on the Young River sparked a resource consent hearing in Wanaka yesterday. The Young Valley has been closed to the public since late September after a landslide blocked the Young River, creating a 2km lake behind it.