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A flooded street in Swan River, Man., on Thursday. Residents of roughly 200 households in the town were forced to flee their homes.Mike Deal/The Canadian Press
A Manitoba city is bracing for floods while a town in the same region is recovering from the aftermath of a deluge of rain.
The City of Brandon says it has declared a state of local emergency because its largest waterway, the Assiniboine River, is forecast to rise in the coming days, with peak flows expected later this month.
Mayor Jeff Fawcett says the declaration allows the city, located west of Winnipeg, it to take proactive flood-protection measures.
Saskatchewan flooding causes state of emergency, one community forced to evacuate
Swan River, a town also in western Manitoba, says it continues to recover since a massive flood Wednesday forced the residents of roughly 200 households to flee.
The town says in a weekend social media post that river levels have gone down since rainfall hammered the province last week, and residents have returned and started cleaning up their homes.
Federal Emergency Management Minister Eleanor Olszewski has said Ottawa will help cleanup efforts in western Manitoba by deploying a small team of Canadian Armed Forces members.