FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Fort Wayne's rivers continue to have high waters as flooding impacts the safety of those on the water. "Stay out of and away from the rivers during flooding. You cannot see all the hidden dangers under the water level," said Bernie Beier, director of Allen County Homeland Security. "As with the St. Marys, fast-moving currents carry large amounts of woody debris.  It is dangerous to be on or near the Maumee River currently." Beier points the the National Weather Service data which predicts that both the St. Marys and Maumee rivers will hit their peak water level on Thursday. "The NWS Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Center shows the St. Marys River cresting at 13.7 ft by sunrise, Thursday morning, April 4.  The St. Marys River won’t drop below flood stage until Saturday morning," Beier said. "The NWS Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Center shows the Maumee River cresting just under 18 ft on Thursday evening, April 4, around 6:00 PM." Even though the worst will be over, Beier encourages residents to stay off the river and banks through the weekend as debris still remains a danger. This type of danger, however, is something that Fort Wayne is used to. "As a community, we know that we flood, we had a pretty serious flood in '78, we started to get in gear and what we were going to do to deal with it, then '82 came," said Dan Wire, local river advocate. "We got very serious about it." The flood of 1982 rocked the city, and Wire said it was a big part of the city changing how it attacks flooding - in a much more proactive way. According to Wire, the city moved businesses and residences away from flood-prone areas and replaced them with parks and other areas that could slow flooding down. "We have to be good stewards of the land ... preserve it for what Mother Nature made it for as a sponge during high water events," Wire said. Wire also said impermeable ground created by development has to be balanced with wetlands that can accept and absorb water before flooding ventures further inland from the city's rivers. "It's critical that we maintain those riparian environments to take surges of floodwaters like this," Wire said. In addition to parks, Wire told WANE 15 that the docking systems and piers that have been installed on the rivers downtown are all built with flooding in mind.