Cameco is trying to mop up a minor flood at one of its northern Saskatchewan uranium mines.

Water is seeping into the Eagle Point mine at Cameco's Rabbit Lake operation. The Saskatoon-based uranium giant says the flow of water is 40 to 50 cubic metres per hour.

At that rate, it would take about two days to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool.

The company has the ability to get the water out, but a surface pump is in the middle of an upgrade so Cameco is scaling back work in some areas of the mine.

"We are closely monitoring … the water and of course it's all being sent for treatment or being stored in designated areas underground," said Cameco spokesman Lyle Krahn.

"The employees are all safe and there's no reported incidents."

Cameco hopes to have a new surface pump in place soon, so that miners can get back to work, Krahn said.

The flood, which happened in an area being mined about 90 metres below the surface, is expected to have some impact on production.

Cameco is also working to stop a much more significant flood at its Cigar Lake mine operation that started last year. Because of flood-related delays, the mine isn't expected to open until 2011 — more than a year later than Cameco had originally projected.