Council routinely inspects our bridges and major culverts for user safety.

During heavy rain events, some of our bridges or culverts may become inundated with water.  Our water crossings are not all designed to be totally immune to all flooding and some temporary disruption to road access may occur.  Your safety is important to us, so please remember the Queensland Government's message of: 
If it's flooded, forget it

Following flood inundation, bridges and major culverts may remain closed until they have been re-inspected and received the 'all clear' to drive/walk across them again.

Council encourages a healthy lifestyle and provides many opportunities for walking and cycling infrastructure and promotes the use of active transport options.

Council undertakes annual footpath inspections in order to identify defects.  However, if you happen to notice one, please report by clicking here, or via the MYSDRC app or by contacting us.

It is accepted practice in Southern Downs and many other Local Government areas in Queensland that mowing footpaths / nature strips of adjoining properties is carried out by the landowner.

Nothing makes you feel like you’re in the country more than driving on a gravel road – you won’t find these in the cities!  We love living in this beautiful part of Queensland where the hectic pace of the city doesn’t reach us.

We maintain our gravel roads on a scheduled program, but sometimes nature and increased traffic deteriorate our gravel roads sooner than anticipated.  If this has happened to your gravel road and you think it's time a grader came out your way, let us know by clicking here or via the MYSDRC app or by contacting us and we'll try to schedule it in.

Monitoring the condition of our road network is a full-time job! Sometimes you might find a pot hole before we do.  If so, you are encouraged to let us know about the issue by clicking here, or via our MYSDRC app or by contacting us.  We’ll try our best to fix the problem as soon as we can.  Thanks for taking an interest in helping to keep our roads well maintained and as safe as possible.

We endeavour to slash our sealed road network on a scheduled program, particularly over the summer months when our beautiful grass is growing rapidly.  We do this especially at our intersections to help with traffic visibility and while we’re driving our slashers from one intersection to the next, we slash the grass along the way to keep our region aesthetically pleasing.

We ask that when you see our slashers operating on a road near you that you please take care when driving past the vehicles.  We’re concerned about your safety, and theirs.

If you have noticed that the grass is getting long on your sealed road, you can send us a reminder by clicking here or via our MYSDRC app or by contacting us and we'll get to your road as soon as possible.

Urban Addresses

All domestic, commercial and industrial property owners are responsible for installing and displaying their allocated urban address number in a position that is clearly visible from the adjoining road, at their own expense.  Property owners are responsible for the replacement of fading, missing, stolen, vandalised or damaged urban property numbers.

Rural Addresses

Council issues a Rural Address Module (the allocated rural street/road number attached to a post) to each rural property address.  If your Rural Address Module has been damaged or destroyed, please complete the Application for Replacement of a Rural Address Module (PDF 609.9KB) and submit it to Council with the relevant fee.

We love our rain, but sometimes we can receive more than we can handle in a short amount of time!  Each rainfall event is different in severity and location of the heaviest fall, which can affect where the stormwater naturally flows.  Stormwater flooding can also cause issues for emergency services to access remote properties during heavy rainfall events.  If you become stranded, please contact the Queensland State Emergency Service (SES) on 132 500.

If you’re having problems with stormwater coming from your neighbour’s property, click here for more information.

Roof drainage from buildings within an urban area needs to be directed to an approved ‘legal point of discharge’.