Instructors and students from the Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Operating, Bricklaying, Painting Trades and Maintenance Crews at Anaconda Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center (JCCCC) jumped at the opportunity this week to help local and neighboring counties prepare for the beyond-impending flood situation.  Reservoirs and rivers in southwest Montana are spilling over. 

 The Anaconda JCCCC is associated with the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest in southwest Montana where several neighboring counties and local emergency services are currently contending with overflowing shores and banks. 

On June 8^th and 9^th Anaconda JCCCC students filled, tied and stacked thousands of sandbags with Deer Lodge and Granite Counties’ Road Departments in a joint effort to have the water barricades loaded and ready to transport to the locations of greatest need when appropriate. 

Anaconda JCCCC Director, Ray Ryan, continues to offer staff and student assistance to emergency service groups that work to protect lives while conserving natural resources. “Anaconda Job Corps CCC students are proud to help out,” Ryan said.  “They are turning into experts on filling sandbags, so as long as they are being requested, they know their efforts are important and worthwhile.”

Anaconda JCCCC serves over 230 students who eagerly accept the exposure to meaningful work, in diverse environments, involving tasks that allow them to increase their knowledge and skills that they work daily on center to improve.