Pumps, pipes and sandbags ensured that Tower Street remained free of flooding and open Picture: Mike Laycock Cover your face when clearing up after this week s floods, City of York Council is advising. Today it issued advice on what to wear while dealing with the aftermath of the recent heavy rain. They include wearing rubber boots, waterproof gloves and an apron and a face covering. The advice goes on to say that hands should be washed thoroughly and any cuts should cleaned and covered with a waterproof plaster. Floodwater contains all sorts of organisms and substances picked up on its journey downstream which it then deposits elsewhere.
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The river Ouse from Ouse Bridge Picture: Kieran Delaney THERE are still 13 flood warnings in place around York this morning with river levels still rising in the city. City of York Council say more than properties in the Clementhorpe area of the city could be at risk of flooding from the river Ouse. The river Ouse is forecast to peak at 4.7m at noon today. Overnight a pump protecting riverside properties failed at about 2.30am in Peckitt Street, but it has now been replaced and is working. In Malton the river Derwent is now above record levels of just above 5m with County Bridge still closed between Malton and Norton.
A flooded Skeldergate this morning THERE are 42 flood warnings in place across York and North Yorkshire with homes in York at risk of flooding this morning. City of York Council say about 50 properties in the Strensall to Yearsley Baths area of the city could be at risk of flooding from the river Foss. Council officers are going door to door warning people this morning in Huntington Road and handing out sandbags and telling people to deploy defences. It s hoped only gardens will be affected, but homes are at risk due to rainfall in the upper Foss catchment. The river Ouse in York is currently at 4.26m above normal and is expected to peak at 4.7m later today.
YORK could suffer its worst flooding since 2015 later this week, experts have warned. The Environment Agency said today that it expected the River Ouse to peak in the early hours of Friday at between 4.5 metres and 4.7 metres above normal summer levels. The river peaked at about 4.5 metres above normal last February, when roads such as Skeldergate, Terry Avenue and Fordlands Road in Fulford were blocked and some riverside properties were inundated, but many other properties had a narrow escape. The river rose to 5.2 metres in the Boxing Day 2015 floods, when hundreds of properties were inundated alongside both the Ouse and the Foss. The Foss Barrier and Pumping Station has since undergone a massive upgrade.