Rural Fire Service (RFS) and State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers were working hard on Friday to manage the damage left behind by significant rainfall in the Bathurst region.
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Multiple properties in Georges Plains and Perthville experienced flooding on Friday morning with RFS volunteers called out to help.
"They're currently sandbagging four houses in Perthville and four or five up in Georges Plains," RFS volunteer Gary Hamer said on Friday morning.
Mr Hamer encouraged locals who live in flood-zone areas to get on the front foot and prepare their houses the best they can to try and prevent further flooding.
One Georges Plains local said this was the first time he's had an issue with flooding in the 22 years he's lived in his house.
He believes the most recent upgrades performed on the railway is what led to the roads and his neighbour's house flooding.
"The back is actually a flood zone but this top area isn't," the man said.
"It's never [flooded] in over 20 years and they done that work and there's a drain blocked where there's been stuff shoveled in it and that's what's causing it.
"Next door especially, it's gone. He doesn't deserve this."
SES spokesperson David Rankine said Queen Charlottes Creek at Georges Plains peaked at 3.89 metres at about 10am on Friday before starting to recede.
However, the Macquarie River wasn't expected to peak until Friday afternoon at 4.2 metres and possibly higher if more rainfall was received in the catchment.
"It's been a very wet La Nina, we've seen regular fronts coming across the state every four to seven days," Mr Rankine said.
"This afternoon has the potential for the third time this spring that the low-level will go under and we certainly expect that it won't be the last."
At 12.45pm on Friday Bathurst Regional Council posted on social media that the Hereford Street low-level bridge was in the process of being closed. By 2pm the bridge was well and truly under.
Other roads with sections closed were Eleven Mile Drive, Ophir Road, Bridle Track, Diamond Swamp Road and Tarana Road.
Mr Rankine said the SES had already been called out to around a dozen rescues in the region.
Some were people taken off-guard by how quickly the water levels rose while others came undone trying to drive through flooded water.
Mr Rankine stressed how important it is not to ignore road closed signs and urged people not to go near flooded water.
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