All of the sandbags are gone from along the Green River Trail in Kent.
AGR Contracting, Inc., of Monroe, has removed all of the sandbags, according to city officials. The company also has completed about 90 percent of repairs to cracks along the trail from the nearly 20,000 giants sandbags that sat along the levees for three years.
Workers started to remove the sandbags on July 10 as part of the $894,628 contract approved by city officials.
Crews placed 3-foot high sandbags along the trail three years ago for extra flood protection along the levees after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers discovered a January 2009 storm had damaged an abutment next to the Howard Hanson Dam on the upper Green River. The Corps completed repairs to the dam last fall. No heavy rainstorms ever tested the sandbags.
The King County Flood Control District covered most of the cost of the sandbag removal by delaying certain levee projects along the river. The district is funded through a county-wide property levy of 10 cents per $1,000 assessed value.
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