When Lyle Bryant moved into his St. Peters home eight years ago he didn't realize he would be battling the rising Red River every spring.

"Unfortunately we got about 14 inches of water in our home," says Bryant, whose home flooded in 2009. "We don't have a basement out here so that was our first floor. We had to gut the whole thing."

Provincial flood officials say they learned from that flood and employed new measures this year to prevent a similar disaster. The province put the amphibex ice cutter to work weeks sooner and had it working further north.

"We got more equipment this year," says Steve Topping with Manitoba Water Stewardship. "And we did learn from the 2009 flood."

Topping says the province has used 280 pieces of flood fighting equipment so far this flood season, which has focused primarily on the Red River. But on Sunday, ice clogged west of Winnipeg on the Assiniboine and water began seeping under or spilling over dikes.

"The equipment is following the ice jam as it progresses downstream and they're raising the dikes to contain the waters," says Topping.

He says the province is trying to assess conditions to see if the amphibex ice cutter can be used to break up the ice jam.

-With a report from CTV's Caroline Barghout