Roads and suburbs just a few kilometres from Melbourne’s CBD are going underwater with the flooding Maribyrnong River set to peak later this morning.

SES Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp said they were hoping despite the river’s rapid rise, the water level would sink quite quickly.

But in the meantime, people have to be on alert.

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Residents along Burton Crescent, Chifley Drive and Clive Street in Maribyrnong were ordered to leave ahead of dawn this morning, but the sphere of evacuation is expanding rapidly.”

Some are waking up to find floodwater right at their door,” 3AW’s Pat Mitchell told Today from the area this morning.

“I have spoken to some people getting their cars out, moving things to higher ground before they leave. Really, they haven’t had a lot of time.”