Officials and residents are pointing fingers of blame after a section of Longleaf Trace Recreation Trail in Hattiesburg collapsed. The accident injured a bicyclist.

Wesley Breland enjoys spending time at his lake. He says, "We like the peace and quiet" On Fridays morning Wesley went out to the lake it wasn't as clear as he remembered, instead it was brown and dirty filled with silt. "The guy had been lowering his water to cut his dam but it got away and did this," says Breland.

The man Wesley is referring to is Emmett Graves who owns a nearby lake, but that wasn't the only problem Emmett's draining allegedly caused. Harlon Pierce is the manager of the Longleaf Trace. According to him, "During the night apparently that trench eroded out and caused an unusually large amount of water to hit the pipe and the side of our trail on the south side the water flowing from south to north and it eroded out the trail." Harlon says the pipe in place is adequate enough to carry normal drainage, but not unusual circumstances like Emmett's.

Pierce says he was called Friday morning out to Longleaf Trace to find a local man, Robert Taft, injured on the trail. "The bicycle went in the hole and threw him across the hole and he landed on the asphalt," says Pierce.

Rails to trails officials added an extra pipe for drainage and repaved the area temporarily. Emmett maintains he's not to blame for either incidence. According to Graves, "This mud from the trail emptied into lake made it muddy it does it to mine. Its just an act of nature there's nothing anyone can do about it." Graves blamed the rails to trails organization for not putting in proper culverts to carry the water.