Arrangements for Flood Warning Services in Victoria
February 2001

Arrangements for Flood Warning Services in Victoria (February 2001) is available as a PDF, to faithfully reflect the printed original and to ensure accuracy of reproduction, and HTML format, in compliance with the Commonwealth Government Online Strategy.  You will need Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to read the pdf file.

The document can be obtained in its entirety by downloading Arrangements for Flood Warning Services in Victoria - February 2001 (9015 kb)

• Foreword
• 1.  Overview
• 2.  Flood Warning Services
• 3.  Principles for Non Flash and Flash Flood Warning
  • 3.1  General Principles for Non Flash and Flash Flood Warning
  • 3.2  Non Flash Flood Services
  • 3.3  Flash Flood Services
• 4.  Flood Warning System Responsibilities
  • 4.1  Funding Principles
  • 4.2  System Review
  • 4.3  Management of Data Collection Networks
  • 4.4  Emergency Callouts for Network Maintenance
  • 4.5  Rating Tables
  • 4.6  Flood Prediction
  • 4.7  Flood Sub Plan of the Municipal Emergency Management Plan (MEMP)
  • 4.8  Dissemination of Flood Warnings & Related Information
  • 4.9  Community Alerting & Local Action
  • 4.10  Community Education
  • 4.11  Flood Category Levels
  • 4.12  Monitoring and Recording of Flood information
  • 4.13  Archiving of Data and Station History
• 5.  State & Commonwealth Level Responsibilities
• 6.  Regional Level Responsibilities
• 7.  Local Level Responsibilities
• 8.  Updating of Arrangements
• 9.  Abbreviations

• A1. Victorian Flood Warning Consultative Committee (VFWCC)
  • A1.1 Terms of Reference
  • A1.2 Membership
  • A1.3 Flood Warning System Priorities
• A2. Victoria Flood Management Strategy
  • A2.1 Overview
  • A2.2 Stakeholder Involvement in Flood Warning Policy
• A3. Emergency Management Manual Victoria
• A4. Flood Warning Categories & Warning Definitions
  • A4.1 Flood Category Definitions
  • A4.2 Warning Definitions for Flood
• A5. Data Collection Networks ­ Monitoring Roles & Responsibilities
  • A5.1 Background
  • A5.2 Upgraded Flood Warning Systems
  • A5.3 Monitoring Partnerships
  • A5.4 Roles and Responsibilities
  • A5.5 Withdrawal from involvement in data collection networks
• A6. Working Arrangements between the Bureau of Meteorology & Murray Darling Basin Commission for the Murray River