Council & Business
12 June, 2026
Shire to host flood meetings
The Carisbrook community are invited to two flood-related events across back-to-back days at the Carisbrook Recreation Reserve.
Expert speakers will guide a community conversation on how to build flood preparedness and resilience from 9.30 am to 2.30 pm on June 21.
Anne Leadbeater and David Younger, both national leaders in disaster preparedness and recovery, will provide insight into the impacts of natural disaster.
Ms Leadbeater led the Kinglake community through recovery following the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires and has since worked across Australia and New Zealand supporting communities recovering from flood, drought and fire.
Mr Younger is a clinical psycho-logist skilled in creating trauma-informed, safe spaces for community conversations after disasters.
The conversation will also explore what past floods have taught Carisbrook residents and what this knowledge can offer newcomers to town.
Funded by Emergency Recovery Victoria and co-hosted by Central Goldfields Shire Council and Connected Carisbrook, lunch is available to attendees as well as a draw to win an emergency generator valued at $1000.
The next day, between 3 and 6 pm, the Carisbrook Flood Study Advisory Reference Group will host their fourth community session as part of the development of the Carisbrook Flood Management Plan.
Council said they are currently updating this management plan because the current plan, developed in 2013, is out of date.
The new plan is expected to include data from the 2011 and 2022 floods and consider the impacts of climate change, mitigation model-ling, flood risk and emergency management.
On the day, Watertech will present the modelled impacts of various mitigation measures suggested by the community.
Council said the session provides residents the chance to review and provide feedback on how existing waterways and mitigation measures perform under a climate-change-driven rain event.
Central Goldfields Shire Council mayor Ben Green encouraged all residents, local business owners and Carisbrook-based services and organisations to attend the events.
“Feedback from locals suggests people are keen to look ahead, and we are keen for everyone — whether new to the community or long-established residents — to under-stand what has happened in past floods, to share the local risks and realities, to learn why it’s so vital to have a personal emergency plan, and to build confidence for acting in future floods,” he said.
“Flood Study Community Session Four is part of our continued engage-ment to review the town’s flood management plan which sets out likely flood levels, flood hotspots and mitigations.”
Further information on both events can be found at centralgoldfields.vic.gov.au/carisbrookfloodevents