Seymour Flood Levee - community survey

Large areas of Seymour are built on the Goulburn River Floodplain and the township of Seymour has a long history of damaging flood events. 

In the event of a 1-in-100 year flood event, the levee would provide protection to over 300 properties, including the hospital and police station.

Council’s planning and investigative works estimate the levee would cost around $20 million. Council has already secured $6 million of government funding and continues to advocate to close the shortfall in funding.

Given the current funding gap and Council’s ongoing advocacy for project funding, Council wants to determine if the project should progress or not. 

In order to make an informed decision, we are currently consulting with the wider community to understand the level of support for a flood levee for Seymour.

We are also engaging with landowners who would receive a flood protection benefit from the proposed levee, on whether or not they would be willing to contribute funding for the levee if no further funds can be contributed by other levels of Government.

Benefitting landowners have been sent a letter detailing how they are able to have their say on the levee as well as potential funding options at the landowner survey site.

To find out if you are a landowner of a property that would receive a flood protection benefit from the levee, you can view the flood protection zone map. 

If you’re still unsure, please speak to a member of the team by calling 5734 6200 and select option 4, ‘Seymour levee project’.