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For months. >> i was in tears looking at all this. >> reporter: leaving isn't an option for him. the 25-year-old has committed to 4,000 acres of farmland. that equals to about 6 square miles. the wettest 12 months on record between march 2018 and april have caused the mississippi river to sit above need stage for months, forcing waterways to spill over onto a million aches of land in the mississippi delta -- acre9. with to pumps to control the water, the mississippi farm bureau says it's become a chronic issue here where 41% of the nation's water passes through. >> we've basically turned missi...

This. >> reporter: leaving isn't an option for him. the 25-year-old has committed to 4,000 acres of farmland. that equals to about 6 square miles. the wettest 12 months on record between march 2018 and april have caused the mississippi river to sit above need stage for months, forcing waterways to spill over onto a million aches of land in the mississippi delta -- acre9. with to pumps to control the water, the mississippi farm bureau says it's become a chronic issue here where 41% of the nation's water passes through. >> we've basically turned mississippi into a flood control structure for the...

For months. >> i was in tears looking at all this. >> reporter: leaving isn't an option for him. the 25-year-old has committed to 4,000 acres of farmland. that equals to about 6 square miles. the wettest 12 months on record between march 2018 and april have caused the mississippi river to sit above need stage for months, forcing waterways to spill over onto a million aches of land in the mississippi delta -- acre9. with to pumps to control the water, the mississippi farm bureau says it's become a chronic issue here where 41% of the nation's water passes through. >> we've basically turned missi...

Drain out. the breut county sheriff, we have been able to put our engineers in the air and visually inspect that area in detail tonight. we have some things we want to make sure we get back in in the morning and address specifically on the ground with our resources. we have developed our contingency plans and as soon as we can get out with first light. resources are being brought into the area to address those concerns. with -- one of the things we are sensitive to is the condition of the existing damage flood control structure we have been working on this week in our unified structure with a ...

And allowing us to address some of the thing coming up. one of the key things for us is we need to evacuate some of the water that's behind that reservoir so we can get ready for the incoming storm. right now the inflow into the reservoir is 40,000 cfs. we are making additional flood control storage. we need to do that for a length of time to make room for the anticipated storm later this week. if we can keep this discharge rate up and not compromise the flood control structure, then we are going to do it. if we can do that for a day we can move out 1.2 million acre feet of water. we need to g...