Rowntree Park York - has it been flooded recently

No offence taken K. The site staff would have the info from the EA also.

JK

The Gov.website is showing flood warning right now for the Rowntree area! Hopefullly it won’t happen!

Yesterday I saw a post on Facebook, more or less complaining that the site was being evacuated because of imminent flooding. The writer seemed surprised. 

This picture was on 3 Nov 23. River level at 3.5 m on the Viking recorder and the site remained open although the park next door was closed. Today the River is expected to peak at 4.01m at 6 pm and fall through the night.

The flood gates are at the bottom of Clementhorpe on the junction with Terry Avenue near to where the picture was taken. The Environment Agency controls the gates and notifies the site wardens in good time if they are to be closed, as access to and from the site is through these gates. There is no emergency access through the gate at the top of the site anymore. The Wardens will phone everyone on site to vacate if needed within 4 hours. 

Not sure if the site is open now.

Have just seen a post on another forum where the poster has had their booking at the Rowantree site for the weekend  cancelled by the wardens because the roads are flooded.

We arrived  1250 Friday 7th for our booked 5 nights only to be told the site was closing due to the environmental agency just phoning to tell them to shut the site and us and the queue behind us where all turned away we where also told that all on site would have to leave by tea time as the flood barriers would be in place later that day. Swift drive up the A64 and got booked in at Beechwood and I must say Andy the warden ( sorry site manager ) was the most helpful and very pleasant wardens there is.  However as Rowntree was put in a state of closure WHY was there only ONE warden on his own to cancel your booking AND try to stop units coming in whilst others where trying to exit. Uter chaos. 

I guess that the order from the Environment Agency came and the staff on duty at that time had to deal with it immediately. These things are fluid, please excuse the pun, and I’m sure they are doing their best, they have to act on the advice given in the moment given by those, we hope, who know best!

Seems a bit odd that they are still accepting bookings for next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, given the amount of rain expected this weekend.🤔

It flabbergasts me that some folk cannot grasp the idea that site staff are not responsible for the weather or making the flood alert calls and the subsequent direction to evacuate specific areas of the riversides.  They, the staff, only have access to the data constantly gathered by the Environment Agency and the warnings issued by them. All staff will have is the up to the minute alerts provided to the general public of which we members also have access to. 

From my recollection, the site has two sets of wardens but some folk don’t understand that doesn’t mean that all four wardens will be on duty or even on site 24/7/52. Those warnings are escalated with the knowledge of what is happening way up stream in the Pennines, not just the level of water immediately outside of the site itself. We have been to York on numerous occasions when the river has appeared to be brimming but no alerts at all have been forthcoming because the data has suggested it not necessary.

I’m sure the staff will take all the advice and direction from those who know far better than us and they will then act accordingly to evacuate , to open or remain open.

We don't get flabbergasted anymore micky.

Oh, Chatsworth was evacuated yesterday I believe.

JK