Evacuate local residents and take them to places of safety. They must make repairs to council housing to allow residents back to their homes. Set up reception centres for people evacuated from their homes and may arrange temporary accommodation. In Inverness several residents were moved to temporary accommodation including some empty council houses and some caravans. Co-ordinate resources and manpower. They have plans in place for flooding. Work with the police, fire and rescue services, and SEPA in response to severe flooding. A report advises committee members that the bill for clearing up Inverness and surrounding area after the floods of early September 2002 is estimated at £300,000. Of this sum, £142,000 will be paid to external contractors and for the hire of specialist equipment. Clean up all debris and silt from the roads. Following the flooding, the Council cleared debris from roads and blocked culverts; conducted detailed inspections of the areas affected by flooding; and carried out a programme of remedial works to clear culverts and watercourses and clean out gullies. This work was carried out by Council staff and local contractors, in addition to two high pressure jetting machines which had been taken on to clean out drainage pipes. There has also been an increased level of maintenance on roadside ditches to improve roadside drainage. Give out sandbags. An instruction was issued to Council staff that filled sandbags were to be made available to the public on request. Where the elderly and housebound were affected, the sandbags would be delivered. It is understood they were distributed on a priority basis to homes in Culloden, Smithton and Drummond Road. Highways Department must check out roads and bridges for damage assessment and the cost of repairs. Structural damage to the bridge on Drummond Road, Inverness, is estimated to cost £40,000 to repair . A Highland Council roads spokesman said the bridge had been inspected and was found to be liable to collapse. The road was closed after floods weakened the bridge crossing the Ault na Skiah Burn between the Glenburn Drive junction and Culduthel Road intersection. The Holm Bridge was declared unsafe and would have to be rebuilt.