Community members have started the clean up on beaches at Old Bar and Wallabi Point.
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Rainfall and flood conditions had eased on Monday morning (March 22), following days of torrential rain and flooding that saw large parts of the Manning underwater.
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During the flood event, creeks in Wallabi and Old Bar opened up to the ocean as floodwater pushed through.
Among the debris to wash up at Wallabi Point was a plastic tank that was strewn in three pieces across the two beaches, a wheelie bin lid, plastic containers, plastic pots for pot plants, plastic bags, squares of foam, vegetables, dead fish, esky lids, timber, sticks and more.
Wallabi Point resident Gene Skinner had a bag in hand to pick up rubbish from the main beach on Monday morning.
He said he had also come down to the beach on Sunday and the most common thing he had found was plastic pots for pots plants, from small to large.
Also ready to clean up were members of the Wallabi Point Coastcare group, Christine Marriott and Anne Little, who got to work while waiting for more members to arrive and join the effort.
At Old Bar Beach, people had already been busy with a pile of rubbish gathered next to Midcoast Waste Services bins waiting for collection, consisting of a plastic chair, a tyre, plastic containers and jerry cans, drink bottles, a child's car seat padding and timber.
The clean up is not over though, with more plastic rubbish still littered across the beaches.
Rain is expected to continue into Tuesday, with the Bureau of Meterology predicting between 50mm and 80mm to fall.
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