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The weekend’s wet weather has left parts of western Saskatchewan waterlogged, especially at Eston Riverside Regional Park, where over four inches of rain damaged roads, walkways, and the golf course.
“We got about 4.2 inches (more than 106 mm) down at the park, and about two inches of that came in about five minutes,” said Eston Mayor Darcy Morrice. “It caused a little bit of a disaster down there.”
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The rain overwhelmed the area’s drainage system, washing out a road and a walking path between the first and second holes of the nine-hole course. Morrice says a few cabins also suffered minor water damage.
(Video submitted by Lorie Poulter)
“The water seems to finding its way down the river and clearing up now,” he said. “Crews are working hard to repair all the damage.”
While the town of Eston avoided serious flooding after getting 63.5 mm (2.5 inches) of rain, the regional park about 10 miles south of town, took the brunt of the storm.
“(Holes) five, six, seven (of the course) are pretty mushy right now,” Morrice said on Monday. “Water was running through it all day yesterday.”
Despite the damage, he’s optimistic the course can reopen soon. “I’m saying a couple days and the course will back up running.”
(Video submitted by Lorie Poulter)
Morrice credits a strong local response for the clean-up.
“The staff at Riverside Regional Park, the RM of Snipe Lake, HES Manufacturing and the volunteers. There’s people all over the place down at the park trying to get our little oasis back up and running.”
Lorie Poulter, clubhouse manager at the golf course, said it was Saturday afternoon when the heaviest rain hit.
“It started Friday night and went all day Saturday the biggest rain came Saturday afternoon,” Poulter said.
She says the storm ripped out a culvert on the first hole and left deep ruts throughout the course.
“It washed the whole culvert out, everything,” she said. “The water damage was just incredible. The ruts are like a foot and a half deep … it just washed out, like, boulders.”
(Video submitted by Lorie Poulter)
Despite the damage, the community response was fast. she added.
“This morning by 7 a.m. the RM of Snipe Lake was down here with their graders,” Poulter said. “People here with tractors, our maintenance staff, just incredible.”
She says the goal is to reopen the course by midweek, but they’ll need cooperation from golfers when they do.
“You’re gonna have to be careful when you’re golfing, stay on cart paths,” Poulter said. “Carts leave tracks that are hard, they never go away.”
Poulter was confident the course will bounce back.
“We have a beautiful golf course, and it will be again,” she said. “Thank goodness we’re on this river clay, it dries up pretty quickly but everything is tender right now.”
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