30 flood warnings have been issued in southeastern Australia, in New South Wales, this week and farmers expect lost crops, damaged roads and towns, the Australian Canberra Times wrote.

It has been almost two years since floods hit parts of Australia. This rendered agricultural areas around the river unusable – and created a crisis for farmers, the paper wrote.

To Security say farmers Kate and Rod Mildner say they have lost their income base when their land was covered by water.

“We can’t do anything at this point until one of the aqueducts running through our area has sunk enough for us to get agricultural stock on it,” Kate Mildner told the newspaper.

The couple own 1,500 cattle on the property, but have sold a third.

The couple predicts 95 percent of their property will be flooded this week.

Not only agricultural areas affected by flooding. According to Mildner, who is also the head of the environmental organization, it has a “huge fleet” of garbage, debris and wood. They have spent weeks picking up trash that washed ashore after the last major flood.

Mildner said the junk fleet was “very large”.

– It’s 700 meters long. Everything is in the river and creates erosion on the river bank. There’s a lot of talk about plastic in the ocean, but little about plastic and trash in fresh water. You saw it after the flood, he told The Guardian and added:

Sink faster

– Plastic comes through our entire system.

A spokesman for the government agency in charge of water supply in the area, Tony Webber, said it was “challenging with extreme weather and climate variations”, wrote The Guardian.