{"id":339379,"date":"2025-12-12T01:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339379\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T01:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:25:08","slug":"sandbag-station-city-of-merritt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339379\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandbag Station &#8211; City of Merritt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\tSandbag Station<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/VDzgTRmfYRsHEdb57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">1410 Government Avenue<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"103\" data-end=\"342\">In spring and fall, when flooding is a risk in low-lying areas, the City of Merritt replenishes the sand at the self-serve sandbagging station located at 1410 Government Avenue, between Main Street and Hill Street (diagonally across from Centennial Park).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"344\" data-end=\"514\">Restocking of the sandbagging station is typically prompted by high-water advisories \u2014 for example, in the fall when heavy rainfall may affect the Coldwater River, and in the spring when freshet conditions may impact the Nicola River.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"344\" data-end=\"514\">The station provides sand, a shovel, and sandbags. Users are required to fill their own sandbags. Please do not remove any tools from the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sandbag Station 1410 Government Avenue In spring and fall, when flooding is a risk in low-lying areas, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,148720,148721,148722,148723,11826,66],"class_list":["post-339379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-flood-advisory","tag-flood-watch","tag-freshet","tag-high-streamflow","tag-river","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}