Preparing for Flood

Rural City of Wangaratta residents are encouraged to ensure they have an Emergency Plan and to be aware of how your home, farm or business may be impacted by flooding.

According to VicSES, the Bureau of Meteorology predicts higher than average rainfall between October and December, with a La Niña weather pattern underway.

To make sure you’re ready visit: https://www.ses.vic.gov.au/get-ready

Further emergency resources are below:

• During any emergency, stay up to date by using the Vic Emergency website emergency.vic.gov.au 
• For life threatening emergencies call 000
• For flood, storm, earthquake and tsunami emergency call SES 132 500
• For the latest road closures visit: traffic.vic.gov.au
• For power outages visit https://www.ausnetservices.com.au/Outages
• For weather warnings visit: www.bom.gov.au

Where possible Council urges you to make use of family and friends should you need to evacuate safely. Please be advised that with Covid-19 that Emergency Relief Centres will still operate, albeit in a different way