SAN ANTONIO -- Along with being pretty to look at, the San Pedro Creek Culture Park is also a major flood control and drainage project.

The rain on Sunday was the first we've seen since the park opened on May 5, so Spectrum News went out to see how it worked.

If you drove past San Pedro Creek Culture Park and you noticed it's not really flowing the same way as usual, the San Antonio River Authority says fear not, this was all some pre-scheduled maintenance work. However, when it comes to flood control, SARA also says the project is doing exactly what it's supposed to do

"This is a flood control project and it did handle the rain very well," said SARA Senior Engineer Kerry Averyt.

Sunday was the first test of phase one of the San Pedro Creek Improvements Project when it comes to rain.

Once the 2.2 miles of project are finished, 30 acres are expected to be removed from the 100-year-old floodplain.

"The project performed as expected. On the interim condition for the finished park down to Houston Street, we're recirculating the water down into the tunnel maintenance shaft to get it back into the tunnel. So any rainwater that's collected into the creek in that segment will go back into the tunnel through the maintenance shaft and can go down stream out of the tunnel at the outlet," Averyt said.

"It's going great. The park is very popular with the community, visitors and local people. We've had a lot of people recreating on the project. We have some programming we've been doing as far as some musicians that have been out. A lot of people are very excited to come out and enjoy the park," said Kristen Hansen with SARA's Watershed and Park Operations.

SARA says we should not expect the park to look like it needs cleaned up every time it rains. They say it was just some maintenance work that was already pre-scheduled and that it'll be back up and running as soon as possible.