Manitou Beach resort village has had many issues of flooding in recent news and the Saskatchewan government is spending 3.9 million dollars to help protect it and Camp Easter Seal.

The Village mayor Gerry Worobec talks about how important this issue is and how important the money will be.

"It's imperative because we ran out of freeboard; what free board is its protection against waves, and those aren't designed to be a permanent solution."

On windy days the waves over top the barriers that are in place which makes this situation urgent.

The money that the government is spending will help to fix the issues and create a permanent plan to divert the water.

Worobec gives some details of what the project will consist of.

"Partial areas of the berm the highway will be raised, and become part of the berm. We will repair a lot of areas that are leaking and centralizing the pumping areas."

During this process, they will also be able to reclaim the beach that has been engulfed by the flood waters.

"Reclaiming part of our beach down by the west end, down by the regional park."

Worobec says that that is not the main focus the main focus is protection.

"Protect everyone here, land owners, businesses, private owners, regional park, Camp Easter Seal."

In order to be able to create a permanent plan, a specific trigger had to be reached and Manitou has reached that point.

In the past, the water levels were a lot lower; however, it has been on a constant rise.

Worobec compared the water levels from past years to current.

"In 1965-1966 we were at a fairly low level. There is a 21-foot difference from then till now. If we take a normal year we are approx 10-11 feet above that."

Woeobec describes the urgent situation at Resort.

"The gazebo is completely engulfed, we have no beach left, the volleyball court is encroached."

The main priority is to protect the infrastructure so that the resort doesn't have to be shut down. The secondary priority is the history property and other properties around the area.

"Danceland is over 100 years old so we have to look after that."

The project of the future will be able to help decrease the incoming water into the closed basin lake. The diversion project will stop 30% of water from coming into the lake.

If this project does not work Worobec noted that they would have to potentially look at injection wells which are very expensive.

"We just need to pray a little bit and hope that the rainfall goes back to normal amounts every season and get our diversion in, and lots of heat and lots of wind and then we will be in good shape."

You can listen to the full interview with Gerry Worobec and Bolt FM's Ryan McNally below.