Super Sacks News Today

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KGPE/KSEE) – Fresno County Fire (CAL FIRE) and the Fresno County Sherriff’s Office were able to successfully remove the “Super Sacks” from the Kings River according to Nathan Magsig, Fresno County Supervisor. Masig says the sacks were placed to prevent devastating erosion and significant land loss during the winter storms last year. […]

Kerry Biofunctional Ingredients, a manufacturing plant in Springfield, achieved zero waste-to-landfill status this year.

For three days last week, a work crew using rented equipment removed the shredded remains of about 500 “Super Sack” sandbags that were placed around Reservation Terrace last fall and in February to help protect properties from high tides and storm-tossed waves.

Possibly come this way and the storm surge when you have an area like this that already floods in high tide and youre looking at three to 6 feet of storm surge, you can see why this area is under mandatory evacuation. i want to quickly speak to lieutenant roche here who is part of the national guard team here on site. can you tell me what is your concern for this area? you having lived in louisiana your whole life. >> our concern is the flooding and possible storm surge with the storm up and com...

Claudia cowan is live at the top of the dam. good evening. >> good evening. the situation here in orovilles fluid appeared we understand that the water level here in the reservoir is dropping. its about 6 feet below the rim. thats good news, dropping about 4 inches every hour and that emergency spillway that was teetering on collapse yesterday is holding. the problem is officials need to get this lake level lower. they need to do it fast. engineers are focusing on repairing oroville dams emergen...

Claudia cowan is live at the top of the dam. good evening. >> good evening. the situation here in orovilles fluid appeared we understand that the water level here in the reservoir is dropping. its about 6 feet below the rim. thats good news, dropping about 4 inches every hour and that emergency spillway that was teetering on collapse yesterday is holding. the problem is officials need to get this lake level lower. they need to do it fast. engineers are focusing on repairing oroville dams emergen...

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