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Communities in New South Wales are braced for more flooding with warnings of historic river rises and prolonged peaks in the state's central west.

Across the state, the authorities have issued 117 warnings and 23 evacuate now" orders, including for central western Forbes and Gooloogong, Gunnedah in the north-east and the southern border town of Moama.