The city of Kent released a progress map Thursday showing where crews have removed giant sandbags so far along the Green River Trail and where the bags remain to be removed.
AGR Contracting, Inc., of Monroe, received the contract of $894,628 earlier this month to remove the sandbags. City officials plan to have all of the sandbags gone by the end of September.
Crews placed sandbags along the trail three years ago for extra flood protection along the levees after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers discovered a winter storm in January 2009 had damaged an abutment next to the Howard Hanson Dam on the upper Green River. The Corps completed repairs to the dam last fall.
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