Disaster recovery
We coordinate recovery programs with our partner organisations to help restore our communities, environment, infrastructure and economy after a disaster. This can take years.
Find out what community support is available after a disaster.
Pathway to recovery
Planning for recovery starts during or immediately after a disaster. This includes providing short, medium and longer-term recovery responses. Our recovery plan is always delivered in response to the community’s needs.
After a disaster, we help the city to recover across the following areas: human and social (people), environment, infrastructure, and economy.
Human and social
- Support with immediate needs
- safety, shelter, essential needs (food, clothing, medical)
- psychological first aid
- access to essential services (water, electricity)
- Access and support (grants, financial, insurance)
- Provide a range of accessible ways to access and receive information
- Connect people with services for additional support
- Enable and empower the community to develop resilience
Environment
- Community safety via
- monitor water quality
- clean-up environmental damage (fallen trees, debris, erosion, vegetation loss)
- mosquito control
- Regenerate and restore natural areas
- Work in partnership with conservation and wildlife partners
- Assess and manage bushfire risk and clearing trails
Infrastructure
- Restore, rebuild or re-establish essential services (roads, power, telecommunications, water and wastewater) as quickly as possible
- Restore impacted community infrastructure (schools, community centres, sporting, recreation, parks)
- Remove impacted infrastructure, green waste or storm debris
Economic
- Advocate for grants and government funding
- Help impacted businesses operate again
- Support impacted business sectors (e.g. agriculture, small businesses)
- Advocate for impacted businesses insurance needs