Goondiwindi Region Flood Update #10 – Yelarbon & Texas – 2 December 2021

Texas

The Dumaresq River at Texas has peaked at 8.67m this morning, this is below the Jan 2011 level of 9.21 m. 

Local Disaster Management Group (LDMG) is now moving to recovery phase for Texas. 

Council staff are currently undertaking assessments on local roads as water recedes.

For SES assistance please call 132 500

For Council related assistance please contact 07 4671 7400

Yelarbon

The Macintyre Brook system impacting the Yelarbon township is currently peaking. 

There are no reports of inundation within the town area nor reports to infrastructure damage. 

Yelarbon town is currently isolated due to numerous road closures and this is likely to remain the case through to at least the weekend. 

The evacuation centre at Goondiwindi will remain open for those residents that evacuated.

The Local Disaster Management Group is continuing to monitor the situation.

Keep up to date with rainfall and river conditions directly from the BoM: http://www.bom.gov.au

For all the latest emergency news, road conditions and weather warnings for our region, bookmark the Disaster Dashboard: http://dashboard.grc.qld.gov.au