 The consistent flooding of Archer Park in Pressensburg has caused destruction to storage buildings, covered the park in thick mud, and has removed parts of the road in some areas. I met with Pressensburg Mayor Les Stapleton to talk about the reconstruction of a building in the park and how the city plans to help alleviate these problems caused by flooding in the future. We looked all the way down through here and the entire foundation started to come out from under it and there's no safety at this point. Well Jeremy, the river came through and it actually makes a circle through the park and then has to circle back and it all hits right underneath the building and we've actually losing that building. It's gone. We're going to have to tear it down. As you saw earlier, the bottoms fall out from under it so we've had to build a new building that's an additional $70,000 that we didn't want to spend. We could spend it to be more productive and now we're having to be reactive to a problem here. We've talked to lots of different groups about what can we do to help this, how can we fix the river and there's never been a real true solution. Now as we looked at the map while ago I showed you, we could straighten this out and take a lot of the curves out of it. It's going to save us a lot of hassle. Here's the river as it currently flows and this is the building that's washing out. You can see where it just comes running. It has to hit somewhere to bounce back up and around. We could do this so easily. Come right down straight down through here. It would make more area for the park. There's easier to control the floodways or anything like that. It'd just be easier of course to work all around. Well you know these people, some of them volunteer, some of them come out and we have to pay them overtime and you know we have to do it because we've got to get cleaned up. Richie does a wonderful job over here him and his crew and the fire department comes up some how. But what it all boils down to is the manners we're spending. Richie can tell you just exactly how many our skating rink is booked up. Our shelters are booked up for the summer. You know a lot of people utilize this. Yeah you know when the flood comes just a good example was the last two weeks we had to cancel skating parties. People couldn't get into the park. But you know once it goes down it takes usually four or five days to get cleaned up and back in operation. So we need to find some solution to this problem. Well you know we've tried for about five years to stabilize the creek bank and in different ways and the efforts were just impossible to save the building. It started collapsing around us so we hadn't expected and it came this particular time it's no longer salvageable so it's going to be torn down in the future and they'll get it put up in its place. We took bids on it. We advertised it there for a couple weeks. We opened it last night so it cost us about seventy thousand dollars to get what we need and it's not what we want right now it's what we had to have and we would like to have been actually bigger and you know that in the future we were looking towards that but we had to rush our progress here so we can make things right. You know there's so many entities that have to be involved. We're talking Division of Water, Corps of Engineers, Environmental and there's just so many different groups that are going to have to come to the table and try to work with us on this and you know I may get one group on board and then the other group's got a problem. If I get them all to the table and show them why they it's a landmark it's an icon here in this area you know. Our numbers keep growing every Christmas and we're up in the forty thousands on the cars and you're looking at a hundred thousand people in a thirty day span coming through and looking at Christmas lights so when you have to dismantle the lights overnight and then spend the next two or three days putting them all back out it's extremely difficult to keep that going so but we do and we keep it going but it's it makes it so much nicer if we didn't face it at all the time. And you know it's not just cleaning up but we got sanitized too. You know that's another issue because you're talking about flood water and it's just an expense that keeps growing with us and every year it seems like it's getting a little bit worse and we've just got to find a solution to it which we're looking at and we're talking to some different groups that hopefully we can get some action moving forward on it.