halls gap: economic impact and recovery flood and extreme weather events in 2011 samantha magill...
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Halls Gap:Economic Impact
and RecoveryFlood and Extreme Weather Events in 2011
Samantha MagillDirector Marketing & Community DevelopmentEmail: [email protected]
Greg Little Municipal Recovery ManagerEmail: [email protected]
Halls Gap
Halls Gap the tourist village with everything!
The Impact on Halls Gap
• Stoney Creek stores flooded
The Impact on Halls Gap
• Township evacuated and isolated
The Impact on the Shire
The Impact on Halls Gap
• Damage to private residences, investment properties and businesses
The Impact on Halls Gap
• Community Infrastructure damage
Halls Gap Landslide
The Impact on Halls Gap
• Community confidence eroded
Economic Impacts
• Key statistics from the January 13th event
• Current trends • The hidden impacts• Contributing factors
Immediate Response
• One on one discussions• Communications
• Community meetings• Small business mentor
Recovery
• Economic Recovery Plan
• Key Result Areas • Economic Recovery
Committee • Where are we today?
Key Stakeholders• Parks Victoria• Grampians Tourism
Politics and advocacy• The double edged sword• Understanding and planning for our needs • $$ for infrastructure recovery v’s $$ for economic
development initiatives • Sharing the pie • Continual efforts
Community Capacity Building
• Difficulty in funding for recovery • Focus on the four pillars of
recovery: – built, environment, social and
economic• Work to the Municipal Recovery
Action Plan• Road and infrastructure repairs
vital• Landslide Contingency plan in
place• Social rebuilding for the local
resident population• Restoration of business and
economic confidence
Longer term Actions
• Rebuild Agency and community capacity to support emergency events.
• Maintain key connections and links • Identify barriers to trade • Update our resource base to include
knowledge gained from these events
Conclusion
• Halls Gap as a township and tourist destination has been rocked by the series of events commencing with the bushfires in 2006 and culminating in the floods, earthquake and landslides in 2011.
• The confidence in the local residents, investment and business community has continually taken huge hits.
• What draws people to Halls Gap and the Grampians still exists.
• The local community needs the capacity to continually adapt to natures changes.
• Our role in facilitating and guiding the recovery is to ensure this.