There are signs of improvement at an Eagle mobile home park more than a week after residents were told to leave their homes.
Last Friday, crews were busy pumping thousands of gallons of water out of the Riviera Estates Mobile Home Park, not entirely sure how effective it would be.
It did make a difference. And while not all of the water has been pumped out, what crews were able to remove is making it easier for them to plan on how to get people back into their homes.
A roughly 23 percent improvement -- of the estimated 200,000 gallons of water that once filled Riviera Estates, crews say they've been able to pump out about 46,000 gallons.
That water was then disposed of at a special facility in Caldwell on Friday.
"We got a lot of the water off the roads, but you see in this area here, it's the lowest part of the park, this is the area now where we don't have access," Eagle Police Chief Patrick Calley said.
There is still about 50 yards of flooded space and water is covering the road, but Calley says it's an improvement and a step in the right direction.
"The best thing that we're seeing is the utility contractors can get in start making assessments and start looking around, and get movement within the park," Calley said. "The next step now is all of those support functions will come together, look at the totality of everything, and start having a reentry plan so we can present that to the homeowners and the managers and say ‘here's the reentry plan for your 44 residents here.’"
It has been 8 days since a mandatory evacuation order went into effect at the mobile home park.
Ada County officials are meeting today to start planning on how they will begin putting together the reentry plan.
Calley says the reason they were not able to remove all of the water with the pump is because it was just too expensive. He said it’s taxpayer money, so they need to be careful with how they use it.