A long section of the 19-mile Green River Trail south of I-405 will remain closed to bicycling as flood protection remains in place for the time-being.
Workers installed the 3- to 4-foot high wall of sandbags along the levee-top trail in the fall of 2009. That's when the Army Corps of Engineers reported the Howard Hanson Dam upstream could no longer handle high water, and they'd have to flood the Green River Valley in the event of heavy rains.
Two weeks ago, however, the Corps announced that repairs have been made and they could operate the dam at full capacity this fall and winter.
It looks like the sandbags are going to remain in place for another rainy season ....
Source: http://www.bikingbis.com/blog/_archives/2011/9/29/4909408.html
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