Last week over a 48 hour period as part of a multi-agency response highways North Yorkshire battled high winds rain and floods whilst still maintaining the winter service gritting roads to successfully keep North Yorkshires main roads open.
Throughout the afternoon and night of Thursday 5th December highways North Yorkshire through its main contractor Ringway and their subcontractors tended to the flooding areas in Whitby and Scarborough establishing road closures distributing sandbags and locating pumps in the most needed locations.
During this period highways North Yorkshire attended 76 emergency call-outs across the network and continued to manage the clean up process.
Mike Roberts Head of Highways Operations for North Yorkshire County Council said: Despite the adverse weather conditions highways North Yorkshire worked tirelessly to maintain the service to support our communities.”
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