missionMission director of Engineering Tracy Kyle says the flood that hit 10 homes on Saturday happened because heavy rainfall and rising creek waters scoured the banks, causing debris to flow down and block a culvert.

A report from Global News says that Mission residents claim they warned the District about the culvert.

However Director of engineering Tracy Kyle says she hasn’t heard of any calls on the matter and says the culverts are regularly inspected.

“In the last month all of our culverts have been inspected and they do look for things like any brush that needs removing around the culvert and loose branches.”

Kyle says this was just an extraordinary occurrence caused by the massive amounts of rainfall.