Queen Charlotte’s Vale Creek peaked at 4.1 metres on Tuesday evening spilling water across paddocks, roads and into homes.

Residents say they have been left wondering why Bathurst Regional Council has not acted earlier.

Emergency service crews were called to sandbag homes as residents fought to save their homes and belongings from the water on Tuesday.

Just two weeks ago, on July 20, the same thing happened.

Lorraine and John Fischbeck have lived on their North Street, Perthville home for 19 years and said they are sick of being flooded.

“It’s just so frustrating, they’ve [council] got the funds to build it [a levee] but they spent it on sporting facilities,” Mr Fischbeck said.

The last time the couple remember this much flooding was when their home was inundated three times during 2010.

“It’s a bit worse to floods we’ve had before,” Mr Fischbeck said.

“It came into the kitchen this time and was lapping under the floorboards in the main part of the house,” Mrs Fischbeck said. “We could see and hear it.”

“We’re tired. Every time this happens it means we don’t earn any income, my husband’s a taxi driver.”

Just around the corner, Michael Robinson, who lives on Bathurst Street said he has also had enough.

While his house was not inundated, floodwaters lapped at his verandah as he nervously hoped for the best.

“Funding was approved [for the levee] a few years ago, but nothing’s been done,” he said. “The pipes are here, but they haven’t done anything.”

Just outside Perthville village on the Vale Road, the Pears family were trapped in their home for the second time in two weeks due to floodwaters.

An angry Nicole Pears said council purchased a section of her 22-acre property around two years ago to reconfigure a corner outside their home and drainage under the road.

Since then the family’s farm has been flooded more than ever, and the water takes longer to drain away.

Floodwaters left in their paddocks from two weeks ago were again inundated on Tuesday leaving the property’s driveway cut and the family stranded, again.

“It flooded all the channels [beside the road] and flooded our paddocks. The water is being forced onto our property,” Mrs Pears said.

In January, 2015 the Western Advocate reported that $4.4 million would be spent on a levee bank at Perthville as the final step in council’s 1993 Bathurst floodplain management plan.

At the time, council director of engineering Doug Patterson said funding for the levee had been approved and it would be constructed during the 2015/16 financial year.

However, in a written response late last month, Mr Patterson said a number of state government approvals still needed to be sought before work on the levee could begin.

Also, that several threatened tree species will be impacted by the proposed works, and Aboriginal heritage and environmental studies were also yet to be conducted.