The Turtle Beach Fish Camp Resort and its 47 RV camp sites have been flooded by the rising waters from the San Joaquin River located adjacent to the facility.
What is normally a busy scene come the warm days of spring, the resort was strangely quiet with a water level of some four feet in depth on Friday with little to no sign of life.
No one was willing to talk about the situation at the empty resort about a half mile southwest of the former Manteca Waterslides site. They referred calls to their corporate offices in Illinois. The office was not answering its phones at press time.
The Turtle Beach area is one of the first locations to be affected by the rising water levels of the early spring runoff from the Sierra to the east.
The State Office of Emergency Services is keeping a close eye on the levee that borders Turtle Beach for high water that could threaten the homes in a rural setting to the east in the Oak and Williamson Road residential areas.
It is one of the areas that flooded under dry skies in January 1997 when unseasonably warm weather caused an unexpected snowpack melt. The adjoining Wetherbee Lake homes were under water for more than two months.
The resort lists among its series of attractions bank-side fishing, fish-cleaning stations, a lodge, and river frontage, Wi-Fi at the lodge and in the vicinity of the lodge.
The resort’s website lists the daily rates for hooking up to the facility’s service at between $37 and $47 per day. Weekly rates run from $280 to $350.
What is normally a busy scene come the warm days of spring, the resort was strangely quiet with a water level of some four feet in depth on Friday with little to no sign of life.
No one was willing to talk about the situation at the empty resort about a half mile southwest of the former Manteca Waterslides site. They referred calls to their corporate offices in Illinois. The office was not answering its phones at press time.
The Turtle Beach area is one of the first locations to be affected by the rising water levels of the early spring runoff from the Sierra to the east.
The State Office of Emergency Services is keeping a close eye on the levee that borders Turtle Beach for high water that could threaten the homes in a rural setting to the east in the Oak and Williamson Road residential areas.
It is one of the areas that flooded under dry skies in January 1997 when unseasonably warm weather caused an unexpected snowpack melt. The adjoining Wetherbee Lake homes were under water for more than two months.
The resort lists among its series of attractions bank-side fishing, fish-cleaning stations, a lodge, and river frontage, Wi-Fi at the lodge and in the vicinity of the lodge.
The resort’s website lists the daily rates for hooking up to the facility’s service at between $37 and $47 per day. Weekly rates run from $280 to $350.
