For more than a month, members of the Vicksburg Kiwanis Club have been waiting to finish a project they started in June, cleaning up the Waltersville Estates playground.

Club members gathered on June 26 and spent the day scrubbing and sprucing up the area with plans to return immediately, until a federal inspection on July 6 put the project on hold.

Today, club members are still unsure of when they’ll be able to resume work.

“I’ve called the playground company to see if they can give us an estimated arrival date for the equipment,” said Donna Osburn of the Vicksburg Kiwanis Club. “We can’t set a workday until we know when it will get here.”

The playground took on nearly 6 feet of water during the Mississippi River flood that crested in Vicksburg at 57.1 feet on May 19. Flood stage is 43 feet.

Osburn said the club will replace four structures that didn’t pass inspection. They plan to install 12 new swing seats and chains, a teeter totter, a climbing wall and a crawl tube. They will also add a section for toddlers.

“We’re all about serving kids,” Osburn said. “We heard that they would have to demolish this playground and we couldn’t let those kids lose their playground.”

The project so far has cost more than $10,000, money from grants, Osborne said. Kiwanis International Foundation, the LaMissTenn Kiwanis District Foundation, Walmart, The Home Depot and the Vicksburg Kiwanis Club provided grant money for the project.

The club anticipates spending about $1,500 more to finish the playground.