Saskatchewan residents receiving help to deal with flooding
The flooding situation in Saskatchewan is improving now that the rain has stopped.
The worst hit area remains Arborfield — 88 km northeast of Melfort. Officials remain on the ground with equipment and a command post has been set-up .
Arborfield partially lifted its mandatory evacuation order Wednesday afternoon. However, it is still one of four communities under local states of emergencies along with the rural municipality (RM) of Arborfield, Carrot River, and the Shoal Lake Cree Nation. Estevan lifted ended its state of emergency Wednesday afternoon.
The rainfall has been a measure of how bad things got in some places as over 100 mm fell — about four inches — particularly in northeast and east. Reports from Estevan suggest as much as 130 mm — over five inches — fell. That amount has set records at the Water Security Agency (WSA). Burntout Brook is a waterway that officials monitor which feeds Carrot River, past Arborfield. At peak flow, 65 cubic meters per second was passing by.