Shop workers near the intersection of David and Dean streets had to stop water entering their premises during heavy rain on Tuesday.

Jodie Ward, of Money3, said this had been the third occasion since Christmas.

“There were waves coming in our doorway every time cars would drive past,” she said. “All the other corners seem to cope, it’s just here and I’m wondering whether it’s a drainage issue because our shops keep flooding on this side of the street.

“It just becomes dangerous for vehicles and pedestrians travelling through there as well.”

An Albury Council spokeswoman said the council was not aware of any blockages or issues with the drainage in the area but would investigate.

“The significant rain event on Tuesday placed the city’s drainage system under pressure, with some localised flooding in isolated areas,” she said.

“However the storm water system operated as expected and generally coped with the heavy downpour.”

Hair Theatre owner Bronwyn Moffatt said her business moved to its present site two weeks ago after 33 years without flooding problems on the other side of the street.

“I knew it was going to happen because this area’s been a very difficult area with water for a long time,” she said. “We’ll just have to put towels up against the door straight away when it rains so it doesn’t come in.” 

SES Murray Region reported five call-outs in Albury on Tuesday and a further 10 jobs by Wednesday afternoon, six in Albury, three in Culcairn and one in Deniliquin.

Business manager Elizabeth Kirkwood said many issues related to leaking roofs and gutters not coping with the amount of water.

“People should, when the weather is a bit finer, clean out their gutters,” she said.

“The weather’s changing, hopefully we’ll get more rain and we don’t want them to have blocked drains.”

A building at Goodstart Early Learning Albury’s Banff Avenue centre closed temporarily on Wednesday while contractors fixed some water damage.

A spokeswoman said the building would be fully operational Thursday.

FIGURES may be harder to come by, but there’s no doubt the Border’s had some rain this week.

Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Rod Dickson said the recording instrument at Albury airport was not in service at the moment.

However the Hume Dam gauge recorded 19 millimetres in the 24 hours to 9am Wednesday and another 16mm during that day.

The Tallangatta gauge registered 22mm at 9am Tuesday while a station at Yambla had 25mm after a Wednesday storm.

Mr Dickson said there had been widespread shower and storm activity.

“We’ve had a very humid air mass across the state early this week, and that’s combined with a low pressure trough moving eastwards,” he said.

North Albury’s David Sprunt, who has monitored his backyard weather gauge for about 30 years, said the Border received 19mm on Monday and 25mm Tuesday.

“It hasn’t finished yet, we’ve had another 26.5mm since 9am today; it’s still trying to rain,” he said on Wednesday afternoon.