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March 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Residents outside a flood-protected area in the northern Victorian town of Nathalia have been warned to evacuate immediately while those inside the barriers are advised to leave by Wednesday afternoon.
The State Emergency Service (SES) strongly advised the 17 properties outside the levy to evacuate late Tuesday afternoon.
The 172 properties inside the flood barriers, which are deemed by the SES to be at risk, are advised to evacuate by Wednesday afternoon.
“Residents which are protected by the levy have been advised to evacuate by 5pm tomorrow (Wednesday) as this is when the last portable levy barrier will close off the road,” Danielle Hartnett from the Shepparton incident control centre said.
Ms Hartnett said sandbagging is continuing through the night and the protective work is on track.
Road access to Nathalia is open and is expected to remain open to the south during the flood threat, but some rural properties are likely to be isolated for some days, she said.
Crews built an emergency levee bank to protect 172 homes and the Nathalia hospital on Tuesday.
The Bureau of Meteorology predicts the Broken River flood level at Nathalia will peak between 3.1 metres and 3.15 metres early on Thursday, which is 10mm to 60mm above the 1993 level.
Premier Ted Baillieu said he hoped the levee banks would protect the town.
“At Nathalia the levee banks are still to be completed there, and that’ll be completed today and we hope those levee banks hold,” Mr Baillieu told reporters in Melbourne.
The Murray Valley Highway will be closed at 5pm on Wednesday to secure the levee.
Access along the highway from the south will remain open, and from Shepparton via the Shepparton-Barmah Road.
The town will not be isolated.
Meanwhile the Barmah township is expecting floodwater from Broken Creek, with peak water levels likely over the weekend and into next week.
Broken Creek levels in and around the Barmah township will be a little lower than those experienced in 1993.
At Walsh’s Bridge, water levels reached 3.52 metres on Tuesday afternoon and are expected to peak at up to 3.6 metres later on Tuesday, which is up to 100mm above the 1993 level.
Meanwhile, floodwaters are receding in most of Victoria’s northeast, and federal relief funding is on its way.
SES spokesman Lachlan Quick said most of the region’s floodwaters were slowly retreating, apart from Nathalia.
Visiting flood-affected Shepparton on Tuesday, federal Emergency Management Minister Nicola Roxon said flooded communities would receive emergency funding but it could be weeks before floodwaters recede and proper impact assessments are made.
“This assistance package will provide a much-needed helping hand to families and businesses and provide funds to ensure damaged public infrastructure is restored as quickly as possible.”
The Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements funding will be available to people in the shires of Greater Shepparton, Greater Bendigo, Mount Alexander and Indigo, as well as in flooded areas of NSW.
With a number of communities isolated by the widespread flooding along the flat farming region of northeast Victoria, Mr Baillieu said it would take some time to see the extent of the damage.
He warned people not to enter the floodwaters around the region, after a 43-year-old Victorian man was swept away and died after trying to drive through NSW floodwaters on Saturday.
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