The owner of Hardings Point Campground says this year’s flooding is like nothing he’s ever seen.
Howard Heans says the building that houses their registration office and bar, which was built in 1785, has quite a bit of damage.
“We raised a lot of the smaller items — ice cream coolers, things like that — up three and four feet,” says Heans. “I think we lost the battle. Everything is destroyed.”
“This is so much worse than ’08. That looks like a Sunday picnic really.”
Several buildings were also swept into the river, including an old electrical building, which smashed into the nearby Westfield ferry.
But one electrical building that was rebuilt after the 2008 flood appears to have survived, along with the main part of the campground.
“The trailers are above the flood and the pool is above the flood and both shower buildings,” he says, “but the road infrastructure, we don’t know what the damage is.”
Heans says it will take a bit of time to assess the damage, which means they likely won’t open for the season next weekend as planned.
