Rous County Council

Rous County Council is a county council in the Australian state of New South Wales. Despite sharing a name with Rous County, it is a distinct legal entity with a separate (albeit overlapping) territory, the Rous county district. In New South Wales, a county council is a special purpose local government which enables adjacent local government areas to collaborate in service provision; the territory of a county council is known as a "county district", and is usually identical to the territory of its member LGAs.^[1] Rous County Council's responsibilities are bulk water supply, flood mitigation and weed management. Rous County Council was established by proclamation on 1 July 2016, as the merger of three pre-existing county councils: Rous Water County Council, Far North Coast Weeds County Council and Richmond River County Council.^[2]