Heavy rainfall, snowpack melt has Canmore dealing with localized flooding - BERITAJA

Usually erstwhile group are successful Canmore, about of their clip is spent looking up astatine the Rocky Mountains each about the occidental Alberta community.

But aft a deluge of rainfall deed the state complete the past fewer of days, residents and visitors alike are spending a batch much clip than they bargained for looking down to spot conscionable really overmuch h2o location is.

Canmore resident Kevin McDonald is 1 of them, uncovering it difficult to shingle the memories of the 2013 flood that damaged parts of Calgary, High River, Canmore and different confederate Alberta communities.

“In 2013, the basement did flood and correct now, there’s nary water,” McDonald told BERITAJA. “Every time I conscionable drawback my headlight, spell down successful the basement and cheque things out, but truthful far, truthful good.”

Days of rainfall person the Bow River and its tributaries pushing its banks, starring to the precarious placement of walkways usually situated good supra the rushing h2o below.

On the streets of the town, ample puddles are ne'er excessively acold from sight.

“We’ve had commercialized structures and residential structures that group person had flood,” said Jason Lyon pinch Canmore Fire. “The situation pinch that is you can’t move that h2o off… you person to trust connected the pumps.”

Recent cooler upwind has helped slow the area’s snowfall melt, aft a singular snowpack during the 2025-26 wintertime season.

But temperatures are forecasted into the precocious teens for the remainder of the first week of June successful the Bow Valley and that could mean h2o levels stay high.

Lyon says debris is besides a concern.

“I deliberation the river’s behaving correct now; it’s staying wrong its banks, unless we spot a important emergence successful the h2o level. We’re asking group to enactment distant from the river.”