As water levels continue to recede, the village of Cache Creek is no longer under a state of emergency that was put into place two weeks ago.

The state of emergency was brought in when water levels on Cache Creek, and then the Bonaparte River, began rising, impacting properties along the water.

However, Cache Creek Emergency Operations Centre spokesperson Wendy Coomber says officials are cautiously optimistic.

“We’ve been waiting for the experts to tell us that we’re in for the worst, but looking at it, just eyeballing it from day to day, we have seen it being steady and slightly decreasing so, we think that the worst is over,” she told NL News.

In rescinding the state of Emergency, Mayor Santo Talarico says the situation in the village has improved to a point that “no longer requires prompt coordination of action or special regulation of persons or property to protect the health, safety or welfare of people or to limit damage to property.”

Evacuation orders along Cache Creek were lifted last Thursday, with residents in about a dozen affected properties expected to all return home that afternoon. Coomber says the evacuation alert for about 350 residents along the Bonaparte River was also lifted over the weekend.

“We did have some flooding in some of the houses along the river but that was mainly due to just the high water table, and not actual flowing,” she added. “The river did not actually breach its banks, it came really close but didn’t do it.”

As of Sunday morning, the River Forecast Centre downgraded a flood watch to a high streamflow advisory for the surrounding areas around both Cache Creek and Bonaparte River.

“A really bad rainstorm at the headwaters could make a little blip,” Coomber added. “However, we’re not expecting anything major at this point, maybe something very small, a very small rise, but nothing enough to alarm people.”

It is the fourth time in six years that the village of Cache Creek has dealt with flooding during the spring snow melt.