Another northern Ontario community has had to declare a ‘state of emergency’ due to flooding.

The latest is the Municipality of French River, southwest of Sudbury, where the flooding is covering roads and threatening houses.

Harriette Reynolds and her husband on Baker’s Bay Road need a boat and paddle just to get to the end of their driveway.

"We're exhausted, were very frustrated. We understand about the spring runoff, we understand about the heavy rains, we just can't keep ahead of it this year. It's the worst that it's ever been. We've been sandbagging steadily now for three weeks." said Harriette.

The Reynolds say have more than 1,000 sandbags surrounding their house, including a four-foot wall made of sandbags in front of the garage. But they say there is a lot more work that still has to be done.

"We need help out here. A lot of our neighbours have already gone under water, and we're close, but so far, so good. Our crawl space has got water in it, so he has to go in and shop vac that out. We've had two pumps running 24 hours, 7 days a week, on a trench on the other side of those bags to keep it away from the garage and the foundation." said Harriette.

The mayor for the municipality, Gisele Pageau, says over the weekend, 4,500 bags were filled with sand and more than 2,000 bags have already been delivered.

"We want our residents to come and pick up bags and start to prepare, because if more water is released, it will be critical here." said Pageau.

Officials with the municipality say the flooding they are experiencing is caused by the government releasing water from Lake Nipissing.

"What they want to do, or what they wanted to do yesterday, is to release another hundred centimetres of water to come down. We fought it. They released 40 cms on Friday, and because the water is so high, it takes time before it reaches certain points.  Wolseley Bay was hit yesterday, Bakers Bay is being hit today, Dry Pine is next." .” said Pageau.

The mayor says they need volunteers. At least another 4,000 sandbags have to be filled and delivered to affected areas.

Volunteers can call the municipal office at 705-898-2294 to register.