Mount Alexander Shire FLOOD EMERGENCY PLAN A Sub-Plan of the Municipal Emergency Management Plan For Mount Alexander Shire Council and VICSES Unit Castlemaine Version 2, July 2019 “Intentionally Blank”. Mount Alexander Shire Flood Emergency Plan – A Sub-Plan of the MEMP ii Table of Contents Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................................ iii Distribution of MFEP ........................................................................................................................................ v Document Transmittal Form / Amendment Certificate ................................................................................. v List of Abbreviations & Acronyms ................................................................................................................. vi Part 1. Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 7 1.1 Approval and Endorsement .................................................................................................................... 7 1.2 Purpose and Scope of this Flood Emergency Plan ................................................................................ 8 1.3 Municipal Flood Planning Committee (MFPC) ....................................................................................... 8 1.4 Responsibility for Planning, Review & Maintenance of this Plan ........................................................... 8 Part 2. Prevention / preparedness arrangements...................................................................................... 9 2.1 Community Engagement and Awareness .............................................................................................. 9 2.2 Structural Flood Mitigation Measures ................................................................................................... 10 2.3 Flood Intelligence .................................................................................................................................. 10 2.4 Flood Warning Services........................................................................................................................ 10 2.4.1 Total Flood Warning System Services ..................................................................................................... 11 2.4.2 Clarifying accountabilities for each TFWS element .................................................................................. 11 2.4.3 FloodZoom................................................................................................................................................ 12 2.4.4 VicEmergency Website ............................................................................................................................ 12 2.5 Flash flood warning services ................................................................................................................ 12 2.6 Non-structural Flood Mitigation Measures ............................................................................................ 13 2.6.1 Exercising the Plan ............................................................................................................................... 13 2.6.2 Flood Warning ...................................................................................................................................... 13 2.6.3 Local Knowledge .................................................................................................................................. 13 Part 3. Response arrangements ................................................................................................................ 14 3.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 14 3.1.1 Activation of Response ......................................................................................................................... 14 3.1.2 Responsibilities ..................................................................................................................................... 14 3.1.1 Municipal Operation Centre (MOC) ...................................................................................................... 19 3.1.2 Escalation ............................................................................................................................................. 19 3.2 The six C’s ............................................................................................................................................ 20 3.2.1 Control .................................................................................................................................................. 20 3.2.2 Incident Controller (IC) .......................................................................................................................... 20 3.2.3 Incident Control Centre (ICC) ............................................................................................................... 20 3.2.4 Divisions and Sectors ........................................................................................................................... 20 3.2.5 Incident Management Team (IMT) ....................................................................................................... 21 3.2.6 Emergency Management Team (IEMT) ............................................................................................... 21 3.2.7 On Receipt of a Flood Watch / Severe Weather Warning .................................................................... 21 Mount Alexander Shire Flood Emergency Plan – A Sub-Plan of the MEMP iii 3.2.8 On Receipt of the First and Subsequent Flood Warnings .................................................................... 22 3.3 Public Information and Warnings .......................................................................................................... 23 3.4 Initial Impact assessment ..................................................................................................................... 23 3.5 Preliminary Deployments ...................................................................................................................... 23 3.6 Response to Flash Flooding ................................................................................................................. 23 3.7 Evacuation ............................................................................................................................................ 24 3.8 Flood Rescue ........................................................................................................................................ 24 3.9 Aircraft Management ............................................................................................................................ 25 3.10 Resupply ............................................................................................................................................... 25 3.11 Essential Community Infrastructure and Property Protection ............................................................... 26 3.12 Disruption to Services ........................................................................................................................... 26 3.13 Road Closures ...................................................................................................................................... 26 3.14 Dam Spilling/ Failure ............................................................................................................................. 26 3.15 Waste Water related Public Health Issues and Critical Sewerage Assets ........................................... 27 3.16 Access to Technical Specialists ........................................................................................................... 27 3.17 After Action Review .............................................................................................................................. 27 Part 4. Emergency relief and recovery arrangements ............................................................................ 28 4.1 General ................................................................................................................................................. 28 4.2 Emergency Relief ................................................................................................................................. 28 4.3 Animal Welfare ..................................................................................................................................... 28 4.4 Transition from Response to Recovery ................................................................................................ 28 Appendix A: Flood threats for Mount Alexander Shire .............................................................................. 29 Appendix B: Typical flood peak travel times ............................................................................................... 37 Appendix C1: Castlemaine, Campbells Creek and Chewton Flood Emergency Plan ............................. 39 Overview of Flooding Consequences .......................................................................................................... 39 Appendix C2: Newstead Flood Emergency Plan ........................................................................................