Bungendore is located on the banks of Turallo and Halfway Creeks which are tributaries that drain to the southern shoreline of Lake George to the north. The village has a population of about 2,754 and is situated about 40 kilometres north-east of Canberra near the New South Wales / Australian Capital Territory border. The Floodplain Risk Management Study sets out to:

• identify and evaluate management options for the floodplain in terms of their capacity to reduce existing and potential future flooding problems;
• provide information on flood behaviour and flood hazard, so that community aspirations for future land use can be assessed; and,
• provide a framework for revisions to planning instruments such as Local Environmental Plans (LEPs), so that land use controls are consistent with flood risk and flood hazard.