The cleanup is underway in flooded communities in east-central Saskatchewan and everyone is hoping for some dry weather to provide a much-needed reprieve for both urban and rural residents.

Seventeen towns, villages and RM’s were in local states of emergency on Monday. The Assinboine River has swelled in the countryside, and spilled into nearby farms and pastures.

Micheal Weger, the minister responsible for the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency, toured Kamsack last Friday.

Some communities’ sewer systems were unable to handle the downpour.

Weger talks about conditions south of Kamsack.

While flooding is the story in southern Saskatchewan, forest fires are burning in the very far north. The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency reports fires in the Southend and Wollaston Lake areas did not move any closer to those communities over the weekend. As of Monday morning, there were 64 active wildfires burning in the province.

(Above photo courtesy of Brandi Zavislak. Town of Canora flooding over the weekend)