Disgruntled residents have plastered big red signs along Hampden Avenue slamming Wagga City Council over its "inadequate" flood protection for North Wagga.
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The signs were put up on Friday afternoon by North Wagga Residents Association members, who say they are ramping up pressure on council to upgrade their flood levees.
One of them is Fiona Ziff, who said the recent downpour had made residents "extremely nervous" for their safety.
"We want to get the message to council and also out to the general community. We want the community to know that North Wagga is being sacrificed to save the city," Ms Ziff said.
"They [council] have never been taken to task like this. They're being taken to task and they don't like it," Ms Ziff said.
The residents association have taken aim at the mayor Greg Conkey in particular, with one sign reading: "Conkey said he can't justify protecting our historical village. Wagga needs a visionary leader."
Since the 2012 floods the residents association has ramped up their lobbying efforts for a 1-in-100-year flood protection, a significant upgrade from council's 1-in-20 year levee.
Councillor Conkey said he had followed the association's demands "to the letter", having postponed their 1-in-20 plans and launching a peer reviewed feasibility study into higher flood protection.
"We've listened to North Wagga and we've taken on board what they've asked us to do, so I'm not sure what else they want me to do," Cr Conkey said.
"I just cannot build a levee without going through due process and that's what we're doing."
Cr Conkey hit back at the association for their name-and-shame approach, saying that North Wagga residents "deserve better leadership".
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Councillor Rod Kendall said he too had been singled out by the association, and that he had grown used to such "disrespectful" tactics.
"All resident groups are free to express an opinion, as long as that opinion isn't denigrating people," Cr Kendall said.
"Respect has to go both ways. I will show respect to any opinion, but that doesn't mean I will agree with it necessarily. We have to weigh up the benefits for the whole of the local government area."
Association member Jenny Woods said they would also put the pressure on Member for Wagga Joe McGirr to build more dams around Wagga to bolster it against both floods and droughts.
"In a time of increasing global disaster it does make sense to build facilities to store water now, so in the inevitable dry period to follow this wet one we will have water for irrigators and for food production," Ms Woods said.