{"id":19168,"date":"2009-11-11T12:04:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T20:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/where-to-get-sandbags-sand-in-kent-how-to-volunteer\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T12:35:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T19:35:25","slug":"where-to-get-sandbags-sand-in-kent-how-to-volunteer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/where-to-get-sandbags-sand-in-kent-how-to-volunteer\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to get sandbags, sand in Kent; how to volunteer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kent residents can pick up free, empty sandbags at the city operations facility, 5821 S. 240th St., also known as West James Street.<\/p>\n

Residents can get the sandbags between 7:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Each household is limited to 100 sandbags.<\/p>\n

City staff will hand out brochures with the sandbags about how to properly fill and place the sandbags.<\/p>\n

Residents can fill the sandbags at one of six locations during daylight hours and should bring their own shovel. The six locations are:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The old Panther Lake Elementary School, 20831 108th Ave. S.E.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fred Meyer store, 10201 S.E. 240th St.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Earthworks Park, 742 E. Titus St.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Home Depot store, 26120 104th Ave. S.E.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Totem Middle School, 25630 40th Ave. S.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Grandview Park, 3600 S. 228th St., SeaTac.<\/p>\n

City officials are looking for volunteers to help people fill, transfer and stack sandbags, which can weigh up to about 70 pounds.<\/p>\n

For more flood information as well as volunteer forms, go to www.ci.kent.wa.us\/emergencymanagement<\/a> and click on Green River\/Hanson Dam or call Kent Emergency Management at 253-856-4440.<\/p>\n

For more information about sandbags, call the city operations division at 253-856-5600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kent residents can pick up free, empty sandbags at the city operations facility, 5821 S. 240th St., also known as West James Street. Residents can get the sandbags between 7:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Each household is limited to 100 sandbags. City staff will hand out brochures with the sandbags about how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":19169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19168"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}