Spring flooding caused massive damage all across the state.

5 months later one Emmons County land owner is still wondering where and how to begin the clean-up process.

Ag. Reporter Sarah Gustin shows us that in one CRP field northwest of Linton the landscape is changed forever.

(Bob Feist / Landowner) 'It goes to show you what mother nature can do. Those things we can't control. I have to live with this, it's been pretty hard on me

The landscape that took thousands of years to form...took only days to change

"In matter of a day and half, maybe two days it changed everything. And the sad part is it is probobly forever." Two floods in one spring was more than this hay field could handle

(Sarah Gustin / KX News) "Feist says when the first flood came through in March a pickup load of gravel could have fixed this road. As you can see the second flood caused a little deeper concern." This washout is at least 15 feet deep, about 100 feet wide and continues for about a 1/2 mile

The water didn't just carve this gorge...it also took nearly 400 trees downsteam

The washout runs right through the only access road Feist has into his yard

Right now two generous neighbors are letting him drive on their land so he can get to his farm

(Bob Feist / Landowner) "Some of these other things I am going to have to live with the soil mass that is gone, the trees that are gone and my beautiful ponds that are gone that were all spring fed and the other things, I guess if anything can be done at all I will have to learn to live with it." When Sand Creek overflowed it's banks that Easter weekend it dug what seems to be an unfixable problem

(Bob Feist / Landowner) "I hate to say it, you can buy lumber and windows to build a house, but what do you do with something like this? Where do you start? There are different kinds of agencies to try and see who might be able to do something. Because if I try to do something it is going to bankrupt me." Feist has contacted the NRCS, local water board, state Water Commission and county commissioners

He says no one is quite sure what to do or where to start

Northwest of Linton for KX News, I am Sarah Gustin."


Feist says right now there is only about 50 to 60 feet seperating this new gorge and the Sand Creek.

He says he would like to see that area stablized to make sure the two don't connect. watch the video | save this article / add to your favorites list