The Fight Continues

So two weeks ago we got a call from the Village of Prud'homme informing us that we needed to register with the Watershed Authority to get assistance with the flooding situation.  Thankfully my better half was home that day so he called up the Watershed Authority and registered.  Great.  He then also talked to our RM Councilor Travis.  Travis came over to take a look around (Travis has already talked to our neighbors and at this point in time it was believed that they were getting a berm built around the end of their yard that would protect not only their bins, house, and yard but also our well from the poop water (yes, we are calling it the poop water now so we can distinguish it from the regular flood water)). 

The following actions were discussed:
- building a berm around the back of our yard to protect us from the poop water
- building a trench from where the fresh water flood is happening, through our field (pretty much right across the middle) over to where the poop water is to hopefully prevent flooding in our yard
- building a trench through an approach that goes into our field to allow our ditches to drain down to the poop water
- tear out our entire yard (not the house) and bring in 2 feet of top soil to raise the whole place to avoid further flooding (that would be done by the watershed, and sounds very scary)

Alrigthy, well at least ideas are being tossed around, that's better then nothing.  The same day a lady polling for Brad Trost calls and asks if we have any issues we would like to raise, well, you picked the right day to call for issues lady.  She gets the whole story.  At the end she says we have to talk to our MLA first and gives us the phone number.  Fine, we can do that (been meaning to anyway but we didn't know who she was). 

So, a week goes by and pretty much nothing happens.  We keep calling people for updates and nothing.  A guy from the Watershed Authority was at our house and Jaxie tried to bite him (not exactly helping our cause) so he had to take pictures from inside his truck.  But still no news.  Alright people, the ground is thawing and turning into mud, if we're going to do some of this stuff we had better get it done!

3 days ago we find out that our neighbors are not getting a berm.  The Watershed Authority decided that they would not build a berm to protect them (and our well) from the poop water.  What?!?  That sounds like total crap to me!  And if they aren't going to build them a berm are we going to get any help!  The poop water is practically in their yard (yes, our yard is under water but at least it's the clean water, not the poop water, for now anyway). 

So I guess the plan is now to get an email together with pictures and video to send to the MLA, call the Watershed Authority and the RM Councilor Travis to see where they are at, and start considering contacting local news crews.  And now you know what I know.

PS. The town of Prud'homme had a water main break on Saturday night and could not find it.  The town has not had water since!  They had to start trucking water in for the village people!  Karma, I think so!  To try to track it down they asked the villagers to report an "suspicious" puddles!  What the hell is a "suspicious" puddle?  And how can you tell it apart from all the regular puddles laying around since it is the middle of spring.