South Sioux City Fights Flood With Plastic

(SOUTH SIOUX CITY, NE) South Sioux City's plans to fight rising waters include a Styrofoam wall.

As a last line of defense, the city is having LiteForm Technologies put up a wall along Golf Road in the Northwest part of town.

The wall will be made of hollow, interlocking Styrofoam, and be filled with sand.

It will stretch for a half mile, and will be backed up with sandbags for extra support. It's modern plastic technology that will hopefully save the day.

"We've built thousands of basements and hundreds and hundreds of all concrete home all around the united states, and now we're using them as flood control, and the main reason is: they're light, they're strong, they're fast," says Pat Boeshart, President of LiteForm Technologies.

LiteForm was hoping to begin building the wall sometime Friday. Once started, construction should be wrapped up in a day.

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