There was also a real danger that water from the Ouse would flow over Tower Street and into the Foss Basin, effectively outflanking the Foss Barrier. The Foss Barrier ran for a record 17 continuous days mostly using all eight pumps. The Foss Barrier operated for 17 days – a record for the time Our staff used a bulldozer to try to fill the low ground but, working at night in difficult conditions, this wasn’t possible and around 80 properties flooded. Staff from Riccall depot went slowly out along the flood bank with a dumper loaded with sandbags to plug the breach.Īt the other end of Clifton Ings water had found its way across a field, around the end of the barrier bank, into Blue Beck and back into the Rawcliffe housing estate. We also discovered a breach in the Clifton Ings bank. We instructed the army to go back out and take all of the sandbags away. When the peak had passed and levels were falling, the weight of the sandbags began to push the twin doors of the floodgate open and almost flooded the area. The sandbags were used by members of the public to climb up and see over the gate. Hundreds of sandbags were laid against the Lendal bridge arch floodgate in an attempt to stem a small amount of seepage. One of the main areas of concern was York where flood defences built after the 1982 floods were tested beyond their designed capacity at Water End, Lower Bootham, North Street and on the Foss.ĭue to the uncertainty in the forecast levels a decision was made to sandbag all the defences which made great photos for the media. In the north of the area properties flooded at Stokesley, Croft, Neasham and Stockton. On the Wharfe flooding was seen in Tadcaster, Ulleskelf and Ryther and the Derwent saw flooding in Malton and Stamford Bridge, just 12 months on from the 1999 floods in the same places. Pretty much all of our rivers were experiencing record breaking levels and as the peak came down the Swale, Ure and Nidd we saw flooding in the usual areas, including Ripon, Boroughbridge and Lower Dunsforth. Cawood and Selby were mostly spared but major flooding was seen in Barlby and our depot in Riccall was flooded. Our internal workforce was stretched and we asked for help from other EA departments and other areas who weren’t experiencing floods.
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This had only recently come on line and replaced the previous warning system that involved faxing pre-written warnings to professional partners.
We used our automated voice machine (AVM) to send messages directly to residents at risk of flooding.
We very quickly saw that this was going to be a big flood. It had been a quiet weekend, but on Monday 30 October, the York AIR (Area Incident Room) was opened as soon as I got into the office. The week before the 2000 floods, I was on standby duty. An Environment Agency flood defence asset in York holding back floodwater
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