ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (ROCKTOWN NOW) – Officials with Rockingham County stormwater management are out and about in Dayton and Bridgewater checking runoff from Monday’s heavy rains.

County Administrator Stephen King told WSVA’s Jim Britt on Early Mornings today that he noticed standing water while driving along Route 42 during the storm.

“If there’s no roadside ditch, that creates problems which compromises the road itself with the bedding of the road,” King explained. “All of these things play a factor clogging of culverts. I saw a situation yesterday on 42 where it appeared to me that the culvert got clogged and that water, then, is going to go wherever gravity tells it to go and so that’s a challenge for everyone, particularly if you’re along a stream, along a creek, or along a drainage path and you’re lower than that drainage path, that’s a problem.”

King added that, as a trained civil engineer, he has learned that flooding cannot be stopped – one can only hope to reduce its impact.