For Zita Lamb, the flooding in Bedford on Monday, April 16, brought back some bad feelings she had toward the town after last year’s Mother’s Day floods.

The town didn’t fix her property’s flooding problem when they replaced a culvert under the broken Gault Road, she said.

“The point is, the town said this would fix my problems and it hasn’t. I’m just so disappointed,” she said.

Her house, at 65 Gault Road, is where some of the worst road damage from the 2006 flood occurred. The road collapsed near her driveway and was rebuilt with two culvert pipes last year.

This year, the pond in her front yard flooded again, making her driveway inaccessible and sunk the small buildings where her geese and ducks roost.

In general, culverts under roads are tough to manage, said Jim Stanford, public works director.

Many residents urge the town to increase diameter of pipes to ease the flooding on their property, but this might lead to flooding on the other side of the road.

“Sometimes we can, but sometimes we can’t (increase the diameter). Because you might be pushing the problem from one side of the road to the other,” he said.

Overall, though, Bedford wasn’t hit as hard as surrounding towns, he said.

“Right now, when you compare Bedford to the region, we’re doing all right,” he said.

The Sunday, April 15, snow turned into rain and continued through the afternoon of April 16.

“So far, it looks like we’re rivaling the floods of Mother’s Day last year,” said Police Chief David Bailey.

He said the worst road flooding was on Route 101 near the Amherst border and on Wallace Road near the Merrimack border.

When the rain stopped at about 2 p.m., April 16, Bailey said the town tried to get Route 101 open before rush hour (Monday).

Fire Chief Scott Wiggin said the road reopened at about 10:30 p.m. on Monday night.

About 15 roads in Bedford were partially flooded or closed. Meadow Road, Perry Road and North Amherst Road were closed on Monday. Others, including Joppa Hill Road and New Boston Road, were only partially flooded.

About 25 to 30 homes called to have water pumped from their basements, Wiggin said.

“They were kind of sporadical. There were a few on the Bedford Village Green, a few on Ministerial Road, on Liberty Hill and on North Amherst Road,” Wiggin said.

In the center of town, Ellen Bostwick said her house at 37 N. Amherst Road was fine during the storm. She didn’t lose her electricity or have a flooded basement.

The vacant property next door and culverts along North Amherst Road captured most of the runoff, she said.

“In some ways, I think it was worse than last year, because we got more water than we did then.

But it drained much quicker this year,” Bostwick said.

Her husband, John, said some water flowed over North Amherst Road. That didn’t happen in 2006, he said.

On John Goffe Drive, water from two brooks closed the road near house number 55.

Phyllis Hickey, at 50 John Goffe Drive, said her house was fine.

“I will say that just down the road, around the bend, the water from the brook was flowing over the road,” she said.

Ward Gravel, at 56 John Goffe Drive, said the water on the road was about an inch deep and was gone by late afternoon.

“Last year, the road overflowed for the first time in about 20 years,” Gravel said.

The culvert under John Goffe Drive was replaced after the 2006 floods and seemed to work well this year, he said.

Bedford wasn’t caught off guard, Stanford said.

“But after an event like this, you step back and look at what you did right and what you did wrong,” he said.

Wiggin said the fire department was better prepared this year, because it purchased new high-volume, low-pressure pumps after the 2006 flood.

“Some people are saying it was worse (this year). We looked at some of our target areas that were hit hard last year, and they didn’t seem to get hit very hard this year,” Wiggin said.