The goal of Council is to provide a clean and visibily presentable town.

Council provides a weekly garbage collection service in Nyngan and maintains the waste disposal depots in Nyngan and the three villages. Residents are reminded to place their garbage bins in the street with the arrow facing the street to ensure that the lid automatically closes when returned to the upright position after emptying. Additional items placed alongside will not be collected.

Business houses are urged to organise a system that will adequately meet their needs in relation to cardboard boxes. Residents are reminded not to place heavy objects or hot ashes in their mobile bins, as this will cause damage to them.

The commercial area of Nyngan is swept twice a week, with other areas of the town swept monthly.

Recycling

Bogan Shire Council has implemented a fortnightly recycling service for the residents of Nyngan. The set up cost for council was $60,000 including the initial cost of purchasing and delivery of the new bins to each household. The new recycling bin provided by Bogan Shire Council will belong to the property at which you currently live.

A new 240lt Blue bin with Yellow lid has been specially designed to accommodate the recyclables from Nyngan. The diverting of recyclable materials from landfill to Carlginda Enterprises at Gilgranda is good for the environment and extends the life of our own landfill site which is good for the residents of Nyngan.

Please do not hesitate to contact Bogan Shire Council if you have any questions about the bins or the recycling program.

For more information view Council's Recycling Information Pack by clicking the link below

Bogan Shire Council's Recycling Information Pack438.79 KB

Recycling Flyer

2025 Residential Waste Collection Calendar

2026 Residential Waste Collection Calendar

The goal of Council is to provide a safe and trafficable network of roads within Bogan Shire. The total road length within the Shire is 1821 kilometres. Roadworks are funded from Federal and State Government grants and general revenue.

Council undertakes planned bituminous patching and periodic bitumen resealing to rejuvenate existing seals and the maintenance grading, gravel resheeting and patching of unsealed roads, also shoulder grading and slashing, signposting, line marking and guide posting, bridge and culvert repairs, flood restoration and new construction works.

Council also maintains sections of state roads within the Shire as a contractor to the Roads and Traffic Authority. It is directly responsible for and maintains the network for regional and local roads.

The streets within Nyngan, Hermidale, Girilambone and Coolabah are also maintained by Council. This involves minor surface repairs, bitumen reseals and shape correction.

Ancillary services provide for the maintenance and reconstruction of existing footpaths and kerbs and gutters within Nyngan and the three villages. Council also provides street lighting, lopping of trees and slashing of nature strips within the town environs.

Water Supplies

The goal of Council is to provide an efficient and effective water supply to Nyngan and villages.

The town of Nyngan on the Bogan River has a reliable filtered water supply which is pumped from a weir pond adjacent the town, conventionally chemically and physically treated, pumped into filtered water storage reservoirs and on demand reticulated for domestic and commercial use.

The village of Hermidale has a dual raw water supply system comprising of a ground tank, overhead storage tanks and reticulation system which is supported by a separate backup reticulation system direct for the Cobar Water Board's Nyngan to Cobar pipeline.

The villages of Girilambone and Coolabah have a raw water system comprising of a ground tank, overhead storage tank and a reticulation system. A ground tank at Wilga supplements this system for both villages.

• Nyngan Town Water Supply. pdf

Sewerage

The goal of Council is to provide an efficient and effective sewerage service to Nyngan.

The original Nyngan scheme was constructed in the 1950s and consisted of gravity reticulation, gravity trunk mains, two major and minor pumping stations, one major rising main and two minor rising mains and a conventional sedimentation and trickling filter treatment works.

Augmentation of the original scheme was completed in 1991 and consisted of sewering previously subdivided north eastern areas which had septic tank on-site disposal, and the construction of a new pumping station, rising main and replacement of the existing treatment works with an oxidation pond system adjacent to the existing sewage treatment works. The ponds are located 1km from Nyngan on the Colane Road, beyond the town's levee banks.

The oxidation ponds consist of three large shallow ponds, constructed of earth embankments. Raw sewerage is stabilised within the ponds by the natural photosynthetic process of algae in conjunction

with the oxidation processes of bacteria. Disposal of the treated effluent is by flood irrigation on adjacent land.

•  Nyngan Sewerage System. pdf

Drinking Water Quality Management Report

2015 - DWQMS Annual Report

2016 - DWQMS Annual Report

2017 - DWQMS Annual Report

2018 - DWQMS Annual Report