Another round of heavy showers and thunderstorms were expected to hit the south-west US on Sunday after the region endured days of rain that forced evacuations, water rescues and multi-million-dollar damage.

The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for much of the Four Corners – the meeting point of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah – even as local officials forecast further receding of swollen rivers that surged since rains picked up on Wednesday.

About 4ft (1 meter) of water flooded the home of Shane Ferrari, the sheriff of San Juan county, New Mexico . He said the area’s situation was stable on Sunday, but he and other residents were trying to clean up and deal with damage.

The New Mexico governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, said in a statement on Saturday that law enforcement had reported hundreds of water rescues between the cities of Farmington and Bloomfield.

Flooding in the Gould Wash drainage watercourse in Hurricane, Utah, on Thursday.…