For the second time in less than a year, crews are clearing mud out of a Sparks parking lot.
"This event was larger than infrastructure is typically designed for, so that's when you start seeing the runoff into the street."
Monday night's storm dropped a large amount of rain in a short period of time at Vista Blvd. and Prater Way, closing the road for a couple hours.
Clean-up started last night. Today -- the City is sweeping streets and checking for possible problems.
“Today, our crews are out, inspecting the pipelines, making sure they're clear, which so far that's what we've found,” says Andy Hummel, City of Sparks utility manager.
While it is a smaller flood than last year, some residents say it is concerning that the same intersection has been flooded twice in such a short period of time.
"They have to do something because they said it was once in a hundred years and now it happened again, yesterday,” says Cindy Simonsen.
City officials say the drainage system is in good condition. And that Monday's rain was a rare situation where it was simply more water than it could handle.
No big changes are planned for the intersection.
"We do have some improvements in our upcoming capital improvement plan but they are more for that smaller drainage event but they will help for stuff like this,” says Hummel.
Washoe County crews spent the day cleaning debris and mud from ditches and storm drains. Which officials say held up as well as could be expected and that sometimes Mother Nature can have a bigger impact than is planned for the drainage system.
"It will handle any kind of a normal rain storm, which I think has been proven. We had the rains over here this winter. It handled it fine. Something like yesterday, I think is an extreme,” says Kelly Rials, Washoe County Road Department.
There were a couple of houses up on the hill that did have some flooding, but nothing on the same scale as last summer's flash flood. Crews are expected to be cleaning up in the neighborhood for the next couple of days.
