Members of the Whitesboro Water Warriors and village residents are urging neighbors to get their applications in for a program to bring buyouts, with the deadline just days away.

Members of the Water Warriors and residents are making a final push to urge neighbors to get their applications in

"This is probably our last, best hope,” said Whitesboro resident Vincent Turczyn.

Qualified residents have until this Friday, November 13, to apply for the program through the National Resources Conservation Service.

$20 million is being provided to buyout homes and restore the area to a natural floodplain.

But the project is dependent on community participation.

"If there's not enough people that accept the offers, at the time that they make the offers, if there's not enough applicants, that's right, there could be not one house potentially bought out,” said Ron Loubier, co-founder of the Water Warriors.

Neighbors have experienced numerous floods in the past, and many agree last year’s Halloween storm was the worst.

"It filled the basement of a 2,400 square foot house in probably less than a minute. I was there trying to keep the sump pump running, and it just inundated the basement, like I've never seen before in previous floods,” said Turczyn.

Whitesboro resident Tammy Patterson walked through chest-high water the night of the storm. Her home had its foundation knocked out and her and her husband remain displaced from their home.

"I believe when the next flood hits, I'm saying 'when' because there will be another time, there's going to be even more foundations gone, because how many floods can a foundation handle?"

Members of the Water Warriors have gone door-to-door explaining the program and offering help, as they and other residents make their final push.

"I can't urge you enough to get them in,” Loubier said. “It's not going to hurt you. You won't know how much they're going to offer, unless you put in the application."

More information about the program and how to apply can be found here.