{"id":753818,"date":"2026-06-22T15:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/753818\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:33:12","slug":"edmonton-under-emergency-alert-as-rainfall-pushes-stormwater-system-to-capacity-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/753818\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton under emergency alert as rainfall pushes stormwater system to capacity &#8211; Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton is under an emergency alert as heavy rainfall has pushed the region\u2019s stormwater system to the brink.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The alert, issued Sunday, is one of seven to be sent out for areas near the city centre due to heavy rainfall over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>That precipitation has pushed the region\u2019s stormwater system to capacity, with localized flooding and backups being reported in neighbouring communities, the Alberta Emergency Alert reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the stormwater system continues to operate over-capacity, flooding and sewer backups will continue to increase,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are advising residents to avoid unnecessary indoor water use, limit showers and baths, delay laundry and dishwasher use and ensure sump pumps and downspouts are functioning properly to direct water away from homes.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how long the alert will be in place for.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Edmonton is under an emergency alert as heavy rainfall has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[255101,48,269250,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-753818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alberta-emergency-alert","tag-canada","tag-edmonton-rainfall","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753818","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=753818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}