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The heavy amount of rainfall in May continues to have a big impact in Saskatchewan. Water levels across the province are currently reaching their peak levels or exceeding them.

Here in the Southeast part of the province, the area is wet but not as moist as most as the rest of the province.

Doug Johnson of the Saskatchewan Watershed Authority explains the water levels at the Alameda and Rafferty reservoirs are almost at their peak levels.  "The Alameda reservoir is now about 2 feet below the full supply level. It just keeps coming up slowly, there is northflow coming from the north end of Alameda and it continues to rise. Rafferty is about a foot above the full supply level, and Boundary reservoir is going to top off and be full at the end of the week and its in good shape."

The water levels in our area should be decreasing soon as Johnson predicts "I suspect unless we're going to see a lot more rain over the next couple days we probably are going to be close to peaks at Rafferty, and close to peaks at Boundary. Alameda will continue to rise over the next couple of weeks."

Johnson noted that some areas like Moose Jaw river, Qu'appelle River and up north at Emma Lake, Christopher Lake the levels are more higher than normal for this time of year