Heavy rain, flooding washes out road east of Edmonton
Posted June 29, 2026 1:20 pm.
Last Updated June 29, 2026 1:42 pm.
Another wet weekend for the Edmonton region triggered emergency alerts, flooding and washed-out roads.
A CityNews drone captured one such washed-out road near Sherwood Park, east of Edmonton, on Monday.
Township Road 534 along the Oldman Creek was destroyed by the flowing water – just one of more than two dozen road closures in Strathcona County.
Meteorologists say this is the wettest June on record for the Edmonton region, with over 255 millimetres of rainfall.
While this weekend saw less rain than last weekend, the new precipitation caused significant issues because the ground was already saturated.
Beaver County, an hour east of Edmonton, declared under a state of local emergency, with an extended flood alert asking residents to conserve water.
This alert was in effect for all Beaver County municipalities, including Tofield, Ryley, Holden, and Viking.
“We are seeing significant impacts to our infrastructure as the overland flood waters from around the county have now been added to our water flow mitigation,” Tofield Mayor Adam Hall said in a Facebook video Sunday. “Pumps have been moved to support that mitigation but we are far from out of this situation.
“We do understand this has been a lengthy process and that folks are becoming more frustrated as time goes by.”
