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March 16th, 2012 
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The Mayor of a southern New South Wales town says he will not endorse an evacuation order ahead of a predicted flood.
The State Emergency Service (SES) has ordered the evacuation of the Riverina town of Hay by Saturday, before the arrival of a flood peak on the Murrumbidgee River.
But the order has angered some residents, who believe recent works on the town levee will stop inundation.
Hay Shire Mayor Bill Sheaffe says the council has a huge amount of information on previous floods and feels confident about the levee’s integrity.
He says he will not endorse the order.
“As a community leader I think it’s my responsibility to say to the people of Hay that I think this a decision they have to weight up in their own minds and make their own decisions as to what they want to do,” he said.
“I’m not going to try and direct people one way or another.”
However Hay Shire councillor Peter Dwyer says the levee has not been certified by engineers, so the orders of the emergency services should be followed.
“I suppose people in Hay, those who can remember the ’56 flood and the ’74 flood – I was here for the ’74 flood – a lot of water coming down the river, it really didn’t inundate the town at all,” he said.
“But things change in 40 years as everyone knows and I can’t guarantee the safety of 2,500 residents of Hay, and you’d be a very brave person to do that.”
The SES says without the levee bank being tested, it must enforce the evacuation of its residents.
Murrumbidgee Region Controller James McTavish says it is a matter of public safety and he is urging people to leave.
“It’s like any other piece of public infrastructure,” he said.
“Before you use a bridge or a road, or an electricity network, you need somebody with the appropriate authority to effectively sign off, that it’s safe to use and meets the required standards.
“At this stage, for that levee, we simply cannot do that.”
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