Update: Sand boil formed at temporary levee, inmates sandbagging

Published 7:37 am Monday, May 16, 2011

The Vidalia Conference and Convention Center has taken on water from a reported sand boil that formed under the north temporary levee wall Sunday evening.

VIDALIA —Inmates from the Concordia Parish Correctional Facility were lifting sandbags onto the Vidalia Conference and Convention Center temporary levees Monday morning to help stabilize a sand boil that formed  Sunday evening.

Water could be seen surrounding the building inside the temporary levees as inmate crews changed shifts early Monday morning. It doesn’t appear as if any water reached the interior of the convention center as of early Monday morning.

This story will be updated as information becomes available and a full story will be printed in Tuesday’s edition of The Natchez Democrat.

Inmates wait for sandbags Monday morning at the north wall of the Vidalia Conference and Convention Center.

Inmates from the Concordia Parish Correctional Facility are shipped in Monday morning to the Vidalia Conference and Convention Center Monday morning to help sandbag.

Inmates walk along the temporary levees in front of the Vidalia Conference and Convention Center property which has taken on water due to a reported sand boil that formed under a temporary levee Sunday. The interior of the building remains dry.

Inmate crews lift sandbags out of a boat onto the Vidalia Conference and Convention Center levee wall.

Water stands on the inside of the temporary levees at the Vidalia Conference and Convention Center that entered through a sand boil Sunday evening.

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