Possible Clues:

• Occurrence of surplus liquid exceeding limit
• Flood a thing of the past? Afterwards female gets depressed
• Flood being past, predatory animal comes back
• Pipe etc for excess water
• Go beyond the limits
• Start of 26 across to run to excess
• Spillage ended by predator's return
• Flood remaining following depression
• Flood finished chap the Spanish abandoned
• Be excessively full