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Local trail runner James McCormack was jogging past the Hacking River last week when he noticed a black substance floating atop the water.

Local trail runner James McCormack was jogging past the Hacking River last week when he noticed a black substance floating atop the water.

Local trail runner James McCormack was jogging past the Hacking River last week when he noticed a black substance floating atop the water.

Residents in low-lying parts of suburbs including Camden, Wallacia, Liverpool, Georges Hall, Chipping Norton, Lansvale and Moorebank have been told to get out before they are cut off by rising waters.

Emergency services rushed to the scene at in Abbotsford, on the Parramatta River in Sydney just after 2.45pm on Sunday where they found man struggling to stay afloat.

Thousands of residents across NSW have been told to evacuate their homes as the state is smashed with a heavy deluge meteorologists warn will intensify further.

Residents of the Wallacia Caravan Park, areas of Emu Plains and parts of Penrith are the latest to have been ordered to evacuate.

The woman, believed to be in her 20s, desperately clung to a tree as the freezing current ripped at her after she had been swept away by the treacherous waters in south-west Sydney.

Police divers searching for a jet-skier missing since Christmas Eve in Sydney's south have recovered a body.

The body of a man has been found on Christmas day during a search for a missing jet-skier near Shiprock Reserve, Dolans Bay, in southern Sydney.