LAKE DELTON - His land was destroyed by the summer floods in Lake Delton. Now, the village wants him to pay up, and, he's being told he could be to blame for the damage. The battle is over who owns the Lake Delton dam, and therefore, who has to pay to repair it. "At the beginning they said ‘You owned the dam’ so they could threaten us and make us hurry up and sign something, but by the end of October, not only did we not own the dam, we didn't own our house or our land,” Rick Wilcox said. The problems started after Lake Delton overflowed its' banks and emptied in June. The DNR then required that the dam be fixed, at a cost of several hundred thousand dollars. Rick and Susan Wilcox didn't want to pay, and that's when the battle began. “We want the lake to be filled, but to get these types of threats, it's ridiculous,” Rick Wilcox said. The Wilcoxes say the village threatened to make them pay $300,000 to re-stock fish into the lake, and up to millions to re-pay the lakeshore for lost damages, all because they may own the dam. “We think they were doing this so that they didn't have to pay us anything,” Susan Wilcox said. The DNR now has control of the dam and is repairing it. They ripped up the shoreline in the process. “Because it's a dam now, we think we lost over $500,000 and the village does not want to pay us a dime, and we don't think that's right,” Rick Wilcox said. The Wilcoxes say several months and several hundreds of thousands of dollars later they still don't know who's responsible for the land.