March 2025 severe weather event recovery

Completed

• Roads and bikeways cleared of debris.
• Waste and recycling collection services return to regular service.
• Temporary waste bins and green waste drop-off sites made available.
• Kerbside collection of household items. Council's kerbside large item collection service recommenced on Monday 24 March 2025.
• Park and street tree clean-up.

In progress

• Park and street tree clean-up.

Immediate clean-up response statistics

• 5,792 tonnes of green waste dropped off at resource recovery centres.
• 375 traffic signal faults repaired.
• 3,000 fallen trees recorded.
• 19,000 Contact Centre calls received.

Completed

• Inspection and reopening of ferry terminals.
• All public transport services operating with regular services.
• E-mobility devices returned for public use.

Completed

• Support the community’s recovery and clean up through a volunteering program.

• 471,000 sandbags collected.
• More than 4.4 million Brisbane Severe Weather Alerts sent via SMS, email, voice message and push notification.

Roads, transport and infrastructure recovery involves restoring critical and non-essential Council and community infrastructure.

• Rapid damage assessment undertaken on all roads, transport and infrastructure.
• Scoping damaged infrastructure to determine solutions and work required.
• Assessment and evaluation of road condition for roads subject to inundations.
• Story Bridge footpath closure to determine remediation planning.

Human and social recovery focuses on supporting our residents and the community.

• Scope damaged or impacted community facilities and venues to determine repairs required.
• Coordination of one-off payment of $7,500 for not-for-profit community organisations to support with clean-up, repairs and to ensure safe facilities.

Economic recovery helps communities recover from disaster-related financial impacts, including the rebuild of local businesses.

• Deliver a destination campaign 'Brisbane Favours the Bold' to drive visitation and economic uplift to local businesses.
• Inform businesses of what support and resources are available to aid in recovery.
• Assess financial impacts to community, recreation and environmental assets to recover costs.
• Work with government and industry bodies to ensure efficient and effective response and recovery funding.

Building and planning recovery focuses on supporting residents and industry to restore and rebuild.

• Assess damage to public spaces, Council assets and shared places.
• Conduct debriefs with key industry associations.
• Develop and promote a planning and building 'severe weather event checklist' that outlines key actions that should be completed prior to, and post, weather events.

Environmental recovery involves reviewing disturbances to the natural and built environment to minimise further impacts to quickly recover.

• Parks and natural recovery plan established and implemented.
• Stormwater network and waterways defects identified and rectified.
• Replacement tree planting program established and implemented.
• Coastal erosion surveyed and options developed.