Talbingo residents are advised to boil their tap water used for drinking or to use bottled water until further notice due to a treatment plant process failure.
Boil Water Alerts
Identifying and managing invasive weeds on your property and around your home
Our waterways are an important part of the Murray-Darling basin, which is responsible for draining one-seventh of the Australian land mass.
Council recognises the importance of demonstrating leadership in addressing climate change and its impacts on our communities through responsible planning and collaboration.
Wood cutting and firewood collection is illegal on all roadsides, reserves and public lands in the Snowy Valleys region.
SVC is a legislatively listed area in which burning of vegetation is prohibited except with approval. Anyone wishing to conduct open burning of clean dry waste such as tree clippings etc, will require a permit from council.
Pests and insects cause economic losses to agricultural production, pose an unacceptable risk of exotic disease, threaten the survival of native species, and cause environmental degradation.In NSW, land managers are required to control declared pest species on their land in accordance with the Rural Lands Protection Act.
In compliance with NSW EPA regulations, Council undertakes a rigorous monitoring of the effluent quality control released from our various water and wastewater treatment facilities across the relevant Snowy Valleys Council areas.
After a thorough inspection of numerous licensed premises within the Tumut region, the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has identified the source of recent odours as coming from a Waste Management Facility at Bellettes Landfill on Killarney Road, Gilmore.