Mayor Ruth Gstrein has echoed a plea by the State Emergency Service for people not to drive through floodwaters.
She said there were more than 30 flood-related rescues for people entering floodwater across the state yesterday.
“Locally we’ve seen examples of people choosing to ignore signage and direct warnings and continue to drive through floodwaters.
Research has found that just 15 centimetres of slow-flowing floodwater was powerful enough to move a small car.
“The risk is also below the surface and the damage that has been done to the road – you don’t know what you’re driving across,” she said.
“The SES needs to spend time and resources helping those most at risk, not people driving into floodwater.
“It’s not worth the risk. Just please turn around.”
As at 4 pm today, there were 12 road closures and 23 cases with water over the road in Corangamite Shire.
Cr Gstrein said there was still rain and windy weather across the region, with water travelling down to the south of the Shire from upstream.
“Our works teams are flat out responding to trees over roads and reaching priority areas across our road network.
“We expect this to continue over the coming days,” she said.
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