Law & Public Safety

Emergency: Flooding

Current Situation

For information on river levels please reference The National Weather Service Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service page.  

Sandbagging Information

Stearns County Emergency Management developed a partial list of companies that provide sandbagging resources such as:

• sand (PDF)
• sand bags (PDF)
• pumps and other flood resources (PDF)

The list is not a complete listing; consult your yellow pages for additional resources.  We also have:

• a video on how to properly fill sandbags
• a document on how to build a sand bag dike

Flood Emergency Resources

Local

• DNR Sauk Rapids/St. Cloud
• Benton County Emergency Management
• Sherburne County Emergency Management

State

• Minnesota Department of Transportation 511
• codeReady.org 
• Sauk River Watershed District

Federal 

• Federal Emergency Management Agency 
• ready.gov

Other

• Information sheet on Septic Systems and Floods
• Stearns County Floodplain Mapping Tool  online (new window opens)