A major effort to rehabilitate almost 30 kilometres of flood-affected riverbanks across NSW has received international recognition, with Local Land Services and the Soil Conservation Service winning this year’s International Erosion Control Association Australasia (IECA Australasia) Environmental Excellence Award.

There are increasing examples of ways that natural flood management can help waterways recover, slow flooding waters, and improve the waterways and catchments.

The NSW State Emergency Service has advised Northern Rivers residents to monitor conditions for possible flash flooding after more than 117mm of rain fell at Cape Byron and Ballina Airport over four days, with further falls overnight.

Lennox locals and visitors have reacted with dismay to the announcement that Ross Lane will be completely closed from 19 October to 18 December...

A $5.6 million upgrade of Murwillumbah’s Lavender Creek flood pumping station is now underway, with two new pumps set to significantly increase the town’s capacity to clear stormwater during floods.

Following last week's announcement by the NSW government of a new Richmond River Coordinator, a gathering at Swan Bay heard from Julie McLellan, CEO of Healthy Land & Water, southeast Queensland's natural resource management organisation, about the practicalities of restoring rivers.

Richmond Riverkeeper says it welcomes the data behind CSIRO's new model for the Richmond River catchment, accepting that even the most ambitious set of measures modelled would not stop towns in the catchment from flooding, while warning that the health of the river itself is still missing from the conversation.

More justification of this adage has arrived with Nationals' MP Kevin Hogan's response to the next level stupidity known as the final report of the Northern Rivers Resilience Initiative (NRRI).

The inclusion of a recent controversial CSIRO Richmond River flood report into Lismore City Council’s Flood Risk Management Plan has been defended by Mayor Steve Kreig, with him telling ABC North Coast, ‘It’s about having the most up to date scientific info and preparing for future flooding events’.

Intense rainfall overnight has led to the closure of Ross Lane, just west of Lennox Head.