GULF residents have been warned to brace for more wild weather as a monsoonal low ramps up and threatens to dump more heavy rain on the saturated region.

It comes as the State Government yesterday activated disaster relief funding to flooded areas in northwest Queensland following a deluge on the weekend.

No homes have been flooded but more than $4 million worth of damage has been caused to infrastructure, mainly roads, in the Cloncurry, Burke and McKinlay shires.

Heavy rain has cut off Burketown and Doomadgee and isolated stations in the Gulf, prompting the SES to embark on food drops next Tuesday as supplies dwindle.

There has been major flooding, which is continuing, in the Gregory River between Riversleigh and Gregory Downs and yesterday morning the Gregory River was 12.39m and rising.

Levels were expected to peak at 13m last night before starting to fall this morning.

SES northern regional director Warren Bridson told The Cairns Post no homes were expected to be flooded in the Burketown/Doomadgee areas because the monsoonal low was heading north away from the catchment area.

"Burketown is isolated and will remain isolated for the next week," he said.

"Food will be delivered by helicopter from Mt Isa and dropped to isolated stations and Burketown but at this stage they have enough supplies and we don’t want to drop it of too soon."

Weather bureau duty forecaster Bill O’Connor said yesterday the region in and around Burketown, which has already had more than 300mm dumped on it, should brace for more rain.

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