Some residents of Pleasant Valley are stacking sandbags against their homes in hopes of preventing flashflooding from Camp Creek which runs down the center of North 31st Street. Instead, experts say every resident along the creek needs to build a substantial wall along the curb, four bags wide at the bottom and four bags high, to protect their homes. Bill Vogrin / The Gazette
Debbie and Jesse Cisneros lined about 110 sandbags along the curb outside their Pleasant Valley home in hopes of preventing flashflooding from Camp Creek which runs down the center of North 31st Street. Experts say every resident along the creek needs to build a substantial wall along the curb, four bags wide at the bottom and four bags high, to protect their homes. Bill Vogrin / The Gazette
Some residents of Pleasant Valley are stacking sandbags against their homes in hopes of preventing flashflooding from Camp Creek which runs down the center of North 31st Street. Instead, experts say every resident along the creek needs to build a substantial wall along the curb, four bags wide at the bottom and four bags high, to protect their homes. Bill Vogrin / The Gazette
Some residents of Pleasant Valley are stacking sandbags against their foundation windows in hopes of preventing flashflooding from Camp Creek which runs down the center of North 31st Street. Instead, experts say every resident along the creek needs to build a substantial wall along the curb, four bags wide at the bottom and four bags high, to protect their homes. Bill Vogrin / The Gazette
Some residents of Pleasant Valley are stacking sandbags on landscaping features in their yards in hopes of preventing flashflooding from Camp Creek which runs down the center of North 31st Street. Instead, experts say every resident along the creek needs to build a substantial wall along the curb, four bags wide at the bottom and four bags high, to protect their homes. Bill Vogrin / The Gazette
Some important tips for filling and using sandbags to prevent flooding.
John Schnake walks past a sandbag wall at a neighbors house that is just above his home on the north side of Highway 24 in Cascade. The sandbags were placed there by volunteers working with the Coalition for the Upper South Platte (CUSP) and in places the sandbags are twelve high and seven sandbags wide. Schnake said he's hopeful that the sandbags will divert 98 percent of the water that might flow down from the burn scar above the homes. "Think of it as a funnel and I live at the bottom of the funnel," he said. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette
