Residents to register if they need help to dispose of flood-affected items and sandbags

By Monique Preston

Dec 11, 2022

Clean-up: City of Greater Shepparton Council workers are now only collecting used sandbags and flood-damaged household items if people in flood-affected areas register with them. Photo by Rechelle Zammit

The council collection of flood damaged household item and sandbags from Greater Shepparton households has now finished, but people can still register to have these items collected from their properties.

In the weeks after the October flood, there had been a City of Greater Shepparton-wide collection of flood-damaged household items and used sandbags, from the kerbside.

Council has now moved to collect only from people in identified flood-affected areas who register for the service.

If you still have flood-damaged items to collect, you need to book in for a kerbside collection by registering your property by emailing: floodrecovery@shepparton.vic.gov.au

Council staff will contact you to confirm if your rubbish is eligible for collection.

This kerbside collection is only for household items and not demolition (building) materials.

Building materials are not eligible under the new program and residents will need to make their own arrangements to dispose of this material.

Skip bins are also no longer available in Mooroopna or Murchison, and council is asking people not to dump rubbish where they were placed after the floods.

Council’s resource recovery centres, however, are offering free flood damage waste disposals until the end of the year as long as the resident is from a flood-affected property.