The snow and ice continue to melt and is flowing through the Pembina River and the increased volume of water has caused the water to overflow its banks. Don Elias who has a cottage at the resort in La Riviere has been busy pumping water away from his property for a couple of days.

Elias is confident with the increased flood protection measures he has put in place they'll be able to tame these waters. That said, he told his wife it may take some time to get everything under control.

"The EMD officer was out here (La Riviere) yesterday (Tuesday) and she was telling me that's because of the variance in levels of the various lakes that feed the Pembina. 

There's Pelican, there's Rock, Grassy. All of that water is still coming. She said we can expect up to six peaks that will see it drop and then pick back up,'' said Elias.

At this time it is unsure as to how big the peaks will be and if they'll get smaller and smaller as time progresses.

According to Elias there usually is about thirty feet between his deck and where the river starts, but when he arrived Tuesday morning the water was already touching the bottom of the first deck step. It has since surpassed the third step and looks like it is continuing to rise.

"In about thirty-six hours it's gone up about five feet," added Elias.

Elias has had property at the resort in La Riviere for roughly the past thirty-seven years and has seen a few floods over the years.

"The first introduction to lake front or water front property was in '98. That was the first one we've had since I've lived here. We had massive amounts of sandbags that we filled and my property was three feet lower than what it is today. I raised my cottage and also put dikes in at that time," said Elias. "Then we had another really bad flood in 2006. Then the one that took the cake was in 2011. That one was really bad. Thank goodness we had some Hutterite friends, about sixty of them came down to help us sandbag. To give you an idea I have 200 feet of frontage. We built a big dike over there (on the East side of the property), that was $8,000 worth of sand. They put 6,000 sandbags just in front of my property. The resort had 11,000 that they put down. We fought like mad and saved everything, but we were very tired after that."