We continued to pump water from the 26th green area, starting at first light we had the pump running all day to remove the flooded area, there is a lot of water in this area so it will take us some time to dry the course up.

The River Derwent is incredibly high, as all of members are aware Malton has been severely affected by flooding, I can definitely say if the flood defences had not been built after the floods of 2000 we would have the same damage as back then, which took months to recover. These pictures were taken today and shows how close we are to the disasters of 12 years ago.

 The water level to the left of the flood bank is 5 cm  from spilling over the top of the flood bank, hopefully without rain for the last 3 days the water level will start to fall.

 The water level on the course side of the bank is a lot lower and at present the damage is minimal although due to the height of the flood water the level is slowly rising. We hope that over the course of next week the flood waters will drop significantly.

We also continues with the hedge removal on 18 and 19