The Thompson-Nicola Regional District is trying to help some homeowners in Vavenby deal with flooding.

Area director Carol Schaffer says the regional district spent $7,000 on a study of groundwater in the community which is now finished.

“There’s about nine or 10 houses in the area (with that problem). Vavenby is on lifts, and our water is underground and it goes wherever it feels like, and streams go wherever they feel like going. They change, and some people have their basements flood,” Schaffer says.

“We have a lot of underground streams, and they move because of those layers. We have sand and gravel and then we have this clay level where nothing will go through. When it gets down there it just meanders wherever it feels like meandering. And it hits houses in their basements and they flood. Especially in the spring time when we have high water.”

Schaffer says the results of that study will come forward in a public meeting, to be scheduled later this month.