Seymour

A major flood warning has been issued for the Goulburn River from Lake Eildon to Seymour. VicEmergency says these areas could be impacted anytime from Thursday ...

The Goulburn River at Seymour is expected to reach major flood level overnight on Thursday, October 13. A relief centre is now open at the Seymour Sports and Aquatic Centre in Pollard Street. A major flood warning has been issued for the Goulburn River from Lake Eildon to Seymour.

Bill Solomon turns 80 next week, has lived in Seymour all his life, and fears the town is about to experience one of its worst floods.

It doesn’t look good.” It’s going to bank up. “I’ve seen a lot of flooding here over the years and this one doesn’t look real flash, I don’t think, because the river (Goulburn) and the creek (Whiteheads) are both in minor flood and if this rain keeps going as it looks like it will today and tomorrow I don’t like the look of it at all, it could be one of Seymour’s worst floods,” he said.

An emergency-level flood warning was issued on Thursday afternoon for the Goulburn River from Lake Eildon to Seymour north of Melbourne, with anyone in ...

Please click below to help InDaily continue to uncover the facts. Your contribution goes directly to helping our journalists uncover the facts. She said the area was bracing for the impact of severe flooding in Rochester to flow downstream to Bendigo. In the 24 hours to 8am on Thursday, 40mm to 80mm was recorded in the Campaspe catchment, with up to another 100mm forecast throughout the day. Watch and act alerts have been issued for major flooding of multiple river systems including the Campaspe in Central Victoria and Ovens and King rivers in northeast Victoria. Severe weather warnings have been issued in most parts of the state with widespread moderate to major flooding expected.

Emergency school closures in Victoria and evacuation centres open in south-east Australia as floodwaters rise.

- A relief centre has been set up at the Echuca United Netball Football Club on High Street. By Jessica Riga By Velvet Winter

A separate emergency warning for flooding of the Goulburn River, from Lake Eildon to Seymour, has also been issued. Rapid and significant river level rises are ...

Greenslopes Road Tallarook-Pyalong Road Delatite Road Malones Road Mill Road The Broadford and Wallan sites will be open as per normal hours. Chapmans Road The cold front has moved through Melbourne and continues to shift slowly eastward. Broadford-Wandong Road “This Emergency Warning is being issued for Seymour. At this height, 187 homes and businesses were affected with flooding above the height of floor level. Properties in Edward, Emily, Hanna, Tierney, Alexander, High, Tallarook and Wallace streets also become isolated and surrounding areas were flooded.

Seymour SES control Christine Welsh said at about 8.15pm that first responders were about to head out and evacuate residents by 10pm. She said Seymour was ...

Seymour’s highest flood on record is 7.64m, set in 1974. Mitchell Shire Council will provide more details on the evacuation centre on Friday morning. The incident control centre in Shepparton is overseeing operations on the ground.

Rural towns worked to evacuate livestock and dig trenches as rivers burst, with some areas facing the worst flooding in almost 50 years.

They’re taking the advice and getting settled in alternative accommodation for the short term.” “We understand a number of people have relocated to family and friends’ premises. By mid-afternoon, the Victorian SES had conducted 30 flood rescues of people who had driven on to flooded roadways. “We are in the middle of the breedings season so we have got very young foals – I have had to go and put quite a few in boxes (stables) because they are too young to cope with it.” The heaviest falls were 160mm at Strathbogie and 145mm near Euroa. Sonia O’Gorman, the director and stud manager at Glen Eden Stud, sent her staff home early after a culvert at the entrance to the farm collapsed. Emily Buchanan had spent much of Thursday watching the Goulburn River spill over the river flats. “We are much better prepared than we have previously. His and other local civil engineering firms have offered to dig trenches and clear rubble or roads for free. An emergency warning was issued for the town of Rochester, 27km south of Echuca, on Thursday afternoon, with anyone still in the town told to evacuate immediately before the Campaspe River peaks on Friday. “It has come up much more now,” she told Guardian Australia. There was flash-flooding and roads closed from Wedderburn to Castlemaine to Ballarat in the west, and Wangaratta in the east.

Whiteheads Creek is expected to continue to rise , but the worst is yet to come as the radar shows consistent rainfall forecast. River levels are expected to ...

To collect sandbags head to 115 Wimble Street, enter via Delatite Rd as Wimble St is currently affected by road closures. River levels are expected to rise between 5.3m and 6.6 m at 6.6 meters, which is classified as moderate flooding. Seymour is currently being hit by flash flooding, with moderate flooding expected over the weekend as the Goulburn River rises.

Seymour SES has responded to 206 jobs since Wednesday and 61 jobs overnight as Seymour recorded its highest flood on record.

Ms Welsh said many decided to stay, but later required SES assistance. Ms Welsh said SES crews were split in two, with half sent home overnight to swing into action on Friday morning. SES Seymour controller Christine Welsh said she was unsure exactly how many people police evacuated overnight in Seymour, and council was determining how many people were at the evacuation centre.

Residents in the township of Seymour, about 100 kilometres north of Melbourne, have returned to find their homes swallowed by floodwaters.

You wonder whether something more can be done to stop this sort of thing happening." READ MORE: "It's my family home. "It's not gone in yet, I've got a lot of steps and my house is right at the top." "It's pretty sad to look at, pretty devastating because I'm a single mum and I look after my mum as well, so we just got my daughter and my mum out." "I just came to have a look and my house is just down the street, so I would say that it's gone underwater," she told Today.

Seymour SES will evacuate hundreds of people from the evacuation zone in the town's north. An evacuation order is in place for for most of Seymour north of the ...

Seymour’s highest flood on record is 7.64m, set in 1974. Mitchell Shire Council will provide more details on the evacuation centre on Friday morning. The incident control centre in Shepparton is overseeing operations on the ground.