A local Victorian council is treating severe sand drift in a drought-affected region as an emergency with some properties currently only accessible by four-wheel drive.
There were 25 places with"major sand drift problems", according to Mildura Rural City Council's engineering coordinator Aaron Huttig, who said the issue had become dramatically worse in recent months.
"It wasn't really until mid-way through October we started to realise we had an emergency on our hands."Some families in the region, like Fiona Black's, have essentially been"stranded" by the sheer amount of soil building up on the roads, needing a four-wheel drive or help from neighbours to get into town.
"Often it means she is getting bogged and we're having to push her through, or having people on standby to come and tow us through the sand drift."
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