Forbes Floods 2022: Flood level increases, Battye Street now closed

The street was one of the last access points to the town's central business district from the north side of the town.

More than 1000 people across the Forbes Shire are subject to evacuation warnings as flooding in the coming days could be greater than what the Central West town suffered through in 1952.

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In the CBD the the Rural Fire Service will provide a ferry service for urgent and essential trips only.

Forbes Shire Council advises those needing urgent transport can go to the St Laurence's carpark in Johnson Street.

Essential workers going from South to North the designated meeting spot is in Lachlan Street - opposite Mazda.

This service will also be available tomorrow for essential workers and urgent medical purposes only.

The flood has peaked at 13.39m upstream at Nanami, with the Bureau of Meteorology still predicting it will reach 10.8m in Forbes on Friday, November 4.

The Regional Emergency Operations Centre (REOC) at Dubbo has been activated following the flooding and an ongoing gas outage in the Bathurst area.

The REOC is a central hub, based at Dubbo Police Station, where experts can monitor the situation in real time and coordinate a whole-of-government response.

The team will access live information, intelligence sharing, digital mapping, as well as public information and media broadcasting resources to quickly get critical information to the public.