The State Emergency Service (SES) is evacuating a group of people from a campground in the Barrington Tops after access was cut due to flooding.
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The Port Stephens SES team was helping to get the group from the Ladies Well area at about lunchtime on Tuesday, the rescue agency confirmed.
An SES spokesperson told ACM that none of the campers had been injured after heavy rain battered the area overnight.
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The spokesperson said the decision to evacuate them came after a causeway flooded, blocking the way in and out of the campground near the Allyn River and Forest Road.
According to the BOM, Careys Peak at the Barrington Tops topped the rainfall table across the state on Tuesday morning with 54.2 mm in the 24 hours to 9am
