Stony Plain reported 113 mm of rain through 4:00 p.m. local time on Sunday, while Barrhead had picked up 83 mm of precipitation.<\/p>\n
Municipal water concerns growing<\/p>\n
Several municipalities around Edmonton asked residents to conserve water as wastewater systems struggled to handle the runoff from this extreme rainfall event.<\/p>\n
\u201cResidents of Beaumont, Leduc County and St. Albert are urged to cease all non-essential water use immediately until further notice and to refrain from showering, flushing toilets and using laundry machines and dishwashers,\u201d CBC news reported on Sunday afternoon<\/a>.<\/p>\n Residents on social media also reported localized flooding and ponding throughout the region, as well as leaks intruding into homes due to standing water.<\/p>\n The City of Edmonton posted on X that officials closed a pedestrian bridge in the northwestern side of the city due to erosion beneath the bridge\u2019s support columns.<\/p>\n WATCH: Three tips to protect against flooded basement damage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stony Plain reported 113 mm of rain through 4:00 p.m. local time on Sunday, while Barrhead had picked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[901,49,48,23752,3622,11696],"class_list":["post-752940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-alberta","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton","tag-flood","tag-rain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}