Your Local Flood Guides and MFEPs

Local Flood Guides can help you better understand your flood risk, how flood warnings work and how to prepare yourself, your home or your business.

Municipal Flood Emergency Plans (MFEPs) are used in emergency management, detailing flood mitigation strategies, available resources and response plans.

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Local Flood Guides
Municipality list - Includes Local Flood Guides and/or Municipal Flood Emergency Plans

Local Flood Guides

The following Local Flood Guides are available (with Council name in brackets):

Aberfeldie (Moonee Valley)
Aireys Inlet (Surf Coast)
Altona & Seaholme (Hobsons Bay) - NEW July 2020
Apollo Bay (Colac-Otway)
Avon River (Wellington)
Bacchus Marsh (Moorabool)
Balaclava and St Kilda (Port Phillip)
Ballarat CBD (Ballarat)
Ballarat East (Ballarat)
Baringhup (Mount Alexander)
Barwon Heads and Ocean Grove (Geelong)
Bayside (Bayside)
Beaufort (Pyrenees)
Benalla (Benalla)
Bendigo, White Hills and Long Gully (Greater Bendigo)
Blind Creek (Knox)
Boisdale (Wellington)
Bridgewater (Loddon)
Bruthen to Swan Reach (East Gippsland)
Carisbrook (Central Goldfields)
Casey (Casey)
Casterton (Glenelg)
Castlemaine, Campbells Creek and Chewton (Mount Alexander)
Charlton (Buloke)
Clayton and East Oakleigh (Monash)
Clunes (Hepburn)
Coburg North (Moreland)
Congupna (Shepparton)
Creswick (Hepburn)
Culgoa (Buloke)
Diamond Creek (Nillumbik)
Dimboola (Hindmarsh)
Donald (Buloke)
Dromana and Safety Beach (Mornington Peninsula)
Eagle Point (East Gippsland)
Echuca (Campaspe)
Eltham (Nillumbik)
Elwood (Port Phillip)
Epsom, Ascot and Huntly (Greater Bendigo)
Euroa (Strathbogie)
Fairfield (Darebin)
Frankston (Frankston)
Geelong (Geelong)
Glen Eira (Glen Eira)
Glen Iris (Boroondara)
Glenorchy (Northern Grampians)
Glenorchy Supplement - Guide to the Gauges
Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat (Greater Bendigo)
Hamilton (Southern Grampians)
Hawthorn (Boroondara)
Healesville (Yarra Ranges)
Hollands Landing (Wellington)
Horsham (Horsham)
Jamieson (Mansfield)
Jerapit (Hindmarsh)
Katandra West (Shepparton)
Katamatite (Moira)
Kerang (Gannawarra)
Koo We Rup (Cardinia)
Lakes Entrance (East Gippsland)
Lara (Geelong)
Lilydale (Yarra Ranges)
Loch Sport (Wellington)
Longwarry (Baw Baw)
Laburnum / Blackburn (Whitehorse)
Macalister River (Wellington)
Manningham (Manningham)

Maribyrnong, Footscray and Yarraville (Maribyrnong)
Maroondah (Maroondah)
Melbourne (City of Melbourne)
Melton West (Melton)
Metung (East Gippsland)
Miners Rest (Ballarat)
Moe River Flats (Baw Baw)
Monash (Monash)
Mornington (Mornington Peninsula)
Moonee Valley (Moonee Valley)
Moonee Valley-Ascot Vale (Moonee Valley)
Mooroolbark (Yarra Ranges)
Mooroopna and Shepparton (Shepparton)
Mt Eliza (Mornington Peninsula)
Murchison (Shepparton)
Murrabit and Benjeroop (Gannawarra)
Myrtleford (English) / Myrtleford (Italian) (Alpine)
Nathalia (Moira)
Natimuk (Horsham)
Newbridge (Loddon)
Newstead (Mount Alexander)
Numurkah (Moira)
Pakenham (Cardinia)
Paynesville (East Gippsland)
Port Fairy (Moyne)
Preston Main Drain (Darebin)
Quambatook (Gannawarra)
Raymond Island (East Gippsland)
Reservoir (Darebin)
Robinvale (Swan Hill)
Rochester (Campaspe)
Rosanna and Macleod (Banyule)
Rosebud and McCrae (Mornington Peninsula)
Rosedale (Wellington)
Sale (Wellington)
Seaford (Frankston)
Seaholme & Altona (Hobsons Bay)
Serpentine (Loddon)
Seymour (Mitchell)
Shelford (Golden Plains)
Shepparton and Mooroopna (Shepparton)
Skipton (Corangamite)
Tallygaroopna (Shepparton)
Tarwin (South Gippsland)
Thomas Town and Lalor (Whittlesea)
Thornbury and Northcote (Darebin)
Trafalgar (Baw Baw)
Traralgon (Latrobe City)
Tungamah (Moira)
Upper Ferntree Gully (Knox)
Upper Murray (Towong)
Upper Murray Supplement - Guide to the Gauges
Violet Town (Strathbogie)
Wangaratta (Wangaratta)
Warburton (Yara Ranges)
Warracknabeal (Yarriambiack)
Warragul (Baw Baw)
Warrnambool (Warrnambool)
Whitehorse (Whitehorse)
Whittlesea (Whittlesea)
Wickliffe (Ararat)
Wyndham Vale (Wyndham)
Yarra Glen (Yarra Ranges)
Yarra Junction (Yarra Ranges)
Yea (Murrindindi)

Municipality list

The following municipalities have Local Flood Guides and/or Municipal Flood Emergency Plans available:

If you have any queries on the plans or guides, you can email us at emp@ses.vic.gov.au or by phone on (03) 9256 9000 during normal business hours.

For information on current emergencies, you should call the VicEmergency Hotline (1800 226 226) or visit www.emergency.vic.gov.au.

Disclaimer

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