SAUGATUCK, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – With high water continuing to plague communities along the Lake Michigan shoreline, a Lakeshore community wants to help its residents in keeping the waters out.
This evening, from 6 to 7 PM, the City of Saugatuck and the Saugatuck Township Fire District is offering a free sandbagging technique training class. Slated for the Fire District headquarters off of the Blue Star Highway, the hour-long session will show how to properly fill and place sandbags, along with an overview of other flood protection measures, and how to fight floods safely, through classroom instruction and hands-on exercises from members of the US Army Corps of Engineers’ Detroit District.
Last month, members of the Corps advised local leaders that the high water situation in the Great Lakes isn’t expected to abate until late in 2020 at the earliest.
