"Talk to locals" - that is the simple message of Mayoral candidate Tyson Golder when it comes to flood mitigation solutions for Roma and Mitchell.

Mr Golder said he had spoken to experts in the field who stressed to him the importance of using local knowledge.

"There is 150 years of local knowledge handing down through the generations," Mr Golder said.

"If elected Mayor I would want to talk to as many of these people as possible."

Mr Golder said people could contact him whatever way they liked.

"It can be an email or a meeting or a chat over a cuppa," he said.

"We've got to listen to local knowledge."

Mr Golder said Council needed to think outside the box to ensure they got the best solution.

"Personally I like a flood mitigation dam to be used only for holding up the water," he said.

"If the water can't be held back then at least it gives us forewarning and 12 hours to get a good evacuation plan going to allow people and belongings to get to higher ground."

Mr Golder said he was not against a levee in principal.

"But the issue is by the time we compensate those on the other side of the levee and uproot people's lives, we could have built a flood mitigation dam," he said.

"This option gives us the highest protection rate as possible."