Floodplain management

Does my property flood?

Are you seeking advice around whether your property floods in rural or residential areas of the catchment? Seeking mapping information about flooding, the flood portal or general advice about flooding in the catchment?

Go to Flood Advice page

PLEASE NOTE: Flood data for some local Councils is currently unavailable on this portal. We are working with councils to increase the availability of flood information for the whole Glenelg Hopkins region.

Lower Mount Emu Creek Flood Investigation

2025-2027

Lower Mount Emu Creek will be the focus of the Glenelg Hopkins CMA’s work through the Victorian Government’s Flood Reclamation Roadmap (Fast Tracking Flood Studies in Regional Victoria) in 2025-2027.

The focus will be on the 1870 square km area of the Lower Mt Emu Creek, and covers the Mt Emu Creek floodplain across 4 council areas (Moyne, Ararat, Pyrenees and Corangamite)

Find out more on the project page

Call for community knowledge

We want to hear your experiences from past flood events. Photos, videos, marks and other records all help to create the best possible flood mapping.
Click here to share your observations.

What we do on the floodplain and why

What do we do as a floodplain management authority and why we do it. Access to Floodplain management strategies.

What we do

Floodplain resources

Access Floodplain Development Guidelines & plans, flood investigations resources, planning maps & regional schemes online.

Access resources

Looking for floodplain data?

Are you seeking information and data relating to floodplains? To request copies of flood modelling files from the CMA, we require a formal request to be completed. This is a fee for service product.

Online data request form

Flood emergency information

WE ARE NOT A FLOOD EMERGENCY AUTHORITY.
We can direct you to local flood information and resources from the authorities that manage flood emergencies.

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