Debris from flood waters covered the sand on the lower half of Town Beach with some locals believing it would be the "perfect place to build a large bonfire".

Port Macquarie-Hastings Council development and environment services director Matt Rogers said the usual process for any beach clean-up effort following a minor flood event is to wait for the storm cell to fully pass and rivers to run their course before cleaning up.

"This approach ensures the work can be done effectively, rather than cleaning up immediately after a storm then having to go back again when more debris is washed up," Mr Rogers said.

"At this stage, we are expecting to deploy machinery to Town Beach on Thursday."

The clean-up is expected to take at least two days and once the debris has been removed Mr Rogers was confident the sand escarpment would begin to "look like a beach, but sand dredging will not take place yet to replace the sand which has been washed into the river."

"The last time we did it, it was in excess of a $200,000 project with Crown Lands contributing much of that," he said. "It's an ongoing maintenance program, we'll continue to monitor it and we're confident the beach will recover, but we don't respond on a storm by storm basis. We won't be doing any dredging just yet."

State Emergency Services unit controller Kevin Sherwood said despite the mess which was left on local beaches the area remained largely incident free.

"We had 15 calls for assistance all within Port Macquarie," he said.

"They were mainly due to fallen trees, leaky roofs and sandbagging but there was no major flooding within the area."

Mr Sherwood said there were no outstanding jobs as of Sunday night.

"There was no isolation and luckily we didn't get too much of the east coast low as was predicted."