The government is set to announce its plans for helping residents of flood-torn areas, Premier Dennis Fentie says.

Fentie said in an interview Tuesday the issue of flooding in the Southern Lakes area has been the subject of intense discussion among members of his cabinet and that an announcement on a government plan of action will be made in the near future.

'I would ask you to stay tuned. Minister (Glenn) Hart, who has been working diligently on this since the time we started experiencing flood waters on the Liard River and beyond, has been working along with the department diligently on this,' he said.

'I don't want to preempt him on this, but he's soon to make a public announcement and we'll all be aware of the plan.'

Fentie said hydrology studies on the area will be ongoing given the record high levels in the Southern Lakes.

'These are record levels and this requires an assessment overall so we can at least in some degree predict where we are going.'

Last month, Fentie said officials were going to monitor the situation and collect information before deciding on whether the government would approach Ottawa for disaster relief funding.

Water levels in the Marsh Lake area reached record levels this summer, over 30 centimetres higher than record levels set in 1981 and 54 centimetres higher than the 2004 levels.

Mike Larsen, who helped coordinate response efforts in Marsh Lake, said this morning he is not aware of any announcement that's going to be made.

Larsen said Marsh Lake residents have been monitoring the situation closely and assessing the damage in their area.

'I haven't heard anything, but the lake's gone down five inches from peak.

'Houses held up pretty good, there were some wet basements,' he said.

Larsen said some structures had to have their insulation removed due to saturation, some docks were swept into the lake, and residents were concerned with erosion on the waterfront.

'There's a lot of shoreline problems. Erosion, banks falling down, I'm not sure what we can do about that.'

Larsen said residents were also wondering about the future of the protective berms which were erected by the government to protect their neighbourhood.

'Long term, these berms, I don't know if they're going to be a permanent feature or not.'

Doug Caldwell, a spokesman for the government's protective services branch, said this morning the future of the berms is still a matter of discussion among government officials.

'We're just discussing that right now, there's a plethora of questions out there,' he said.

Caldwell said plans for the berms depend on when the water levels recede back to normal levels, long-term weather forecasts and the availability of labour should it be decided the berms need to come down.

The latest hydrology reports, he added, predict water levels will return to normal in late September or early October.