Residents who battled flood waters in the Yukon's Marsh Lake area last summer have a week to decide whether they'll pay hundreds of dollars to keep the concrete blocks that were put around their homes.

Yukon government crews had installed nearly 300 blocks and concrete highway barriers around Marsh Lake properties last summer, after hundreds of thousands of sandbags alone were not enough to protect homes from the rising lake.

The blocks worked as flood barriers in many cases, and they are still on the Marsh Lake properties.

Now the government has given property owners a chance to keep the blocks, but at a price: $550 for each of the large highway barriers, and $225 for the smaller "Lego-style" blocks.

Homeowners have until the middle of next week to decide if they want to keep the blocks or have them taken away, Yukon emergency measures manager Michael Templeton told CBC News.

"The blocks are sold as is ... If they're not wanting to purchase them, then we'll be by this summer to basically pick them up and actually haul them away," Templeton said Monday.

Templeton said the government tried to set a fair price for the concrete blocks, taking into account the price to haul the blocks and put them in place.

"We're not selling them for an actual profit, but we are not giving them away, either," he said.

Some residents in Marsh Lake have as many as 30 blocks on their properties.

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