www.insidehalton.com |OAKVILLE BEAVER |Thursday, June 1, 2017 |26 Great Fashions For Real People ? » -- At the Oakville Yacht Squadron (OYS), the club continues to try to shore up its grounds, building walls with more than 4 00 sandbags and dumping close to 100 tonnes of gravel around the clubhouse. On Thursday, despite their best efforts, the lake surge flooded another 30 feet. Harbourmaster Bill Richards surveys the flooded area. | Graham Paine/Metroland Sandbags failed to hold back the lake continued from p.20 Harbourmaster Bill Richards donned rubber boots as he surveyed the flooded area around the OYS' clubhouse and the tonnes of new gravel that now sits partially-submerged. In fact, the roadway leading into the area where the clubhouse sits, accessing Shipyard Park, is under water. No parking signs are precariously emerging from water, instead of the roadway. Opposite the OYS clubhouse, W ater Street, on the east side of Sixteen Mile Creek has also been cordoned and the street has areas of ponding. Besides harbours and piers being closed in Oakville and Bronte, elsewhere along the lakeshore, officials have closed parks, including Coronation Park. W hile Town officials were having a hard time keeping people out of the parks, fencing was erected around Coronation Park Thursday, May 25. On Friday (M ay 2 6 ) Halton Regional Police in Oakville were tweeting to ask people to respect the Town of Oakville park closures and reminding people that "entering an enclosed area can result in charges." Officers also tweeted that patrols would be "ensuring compliance in the interest of public safety." Marilu's Plaza · www.jusbgauze.com 5 1 B LA Z E R · · 1 MANAGED BY PROUDLY staples 1 more happens Dorval Cros O v e r 6 0 S °o p s & Services located at Q E W & D orval Drive Visit d o rv a lc ro s s in g .c o m for more information Bentall Kennedy