The water was down Wednesday but there's still a lot of work to do in Edmunds County, fixing the damage downpours left behind.  It's crunching crews as they need to get other work done at the same time.

With so many stretches of blacktop broken up in Edmunds County, crews were already behind trying to patch them up.  Then heavy rains and rising water came.

"Oh, we had about 25 spots that went under water," Highway Superintendent Lenny Uhrich said.

That washed gravel away. Now fixing up damage left behind after Tuesday’s flooding will set them back even more.

"We'll get everything done this summer that we need to get done. It's just going to take a little bit longer than what we planned on," Uhrich said.

The county has some annual projects it likes to have half done by this time of the year but hasn't started yet.

Uhrich still has crews working on regular maintenance but had to assign others to flood damage. Overall, he figures this latest hold up will set them back another two to three weeks.

"Just push some other projects that we do in the fall, just push them off a little further,” Uhrich said. “Maybe we won't get those done at all."

That might be building up areas along the road that have eroded over the year or planting grass to prevent further erosion.

The department isn't counting those projects out yet but also isn't sure they'll get done before the snow flies.