The Village of Cache Creek remains under a state of local emergency following a spell of warm weekend weather lead to melting snow, which caused water levels to rise.

Mayor John Ranta tells NL News that Cache Creek spilled its banks Saturday night, leading to some water pooling on roadways in the village west of Kamloops.

“Yeah, it was incredible how quickly the levels on Cache Creek came up,” Ranta said. “That is, I think, in large part because of the weather. It went from cool to hot and the snowpack melted suddenly and came down into Cache Creek.”

While not out of the woods just yet, Ranta is optimistic that the worst of the flooding is over.

“Water was flowing across Quartz Road on Saturday, ” he added. “Our staff had done the necessary work in advance so that the water could go over the road and back into the channel, which it did.”

“Then incidentally, the culvert underneath Highway 97 near the Dairy Queen, it got plugged with a log and that was overflowing the road for a period of time, but the log cleared itself and it seems to be functioning properly now.”

Ranta says the state of emergency was put in place so that the village could issue an evacuation order to one property on the Trans Canada Highway. He said no other properties are at risk at this time.

He says the big concern going forward will be a significant rainfall event as that could cause the water levels to rise again.

“The snow is melting as it will and we’ve got some of the snowpack that has gone,” he said. “There is still a lot of snow up there but hopefully it will melt in a moderated fashion. The big concern would be if we had a rainfall event along with it.”

He’s also urging Cache Creek residents to stay away from the banks of all waterways for the foreseeable future.

For the latest updates, Cache Creek residents are being encouraged to sign up for VoyentAlert here or head to the Village of Cache Creek’s Facebook page here.