{"id":755646,"date":"2026-06-23T10:59:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/755646\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:59:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:59:51","slug":"heavy-rain-causes-flooding-water-restrictions-in-edmonton-region-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/755646\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain causes flooding, water restrictions in Edmonton region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">People living in Edmonton and its surrounding areas are being asked to limit how much water they use as heavy rain has pushed sewer systems to capacity. EPCOR says it received more than 600 calls on Sunday. Edmonton is one of several central Alberta communities under water-use advisories after nearly 100 mm of rain over the weekend. If the stormwater system continues to operate over-capacity, flooding and sewer backups will continue to increase, city officials warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People living in Edmonton and its surrounding areas are being asked to limit how much water they use&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752,215562,20862,269727,269726,209967],"class_list":["post-755646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton","tag-epcor","tag-heavy-rain","tag-sewer-backups","tag-sewer-systems","tag-stormwater-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755646","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=755646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}