The City of Belmont is praising a member of its maintenance crew for coming up with a clever way to distribute sand bags to residents.
Sione Tonga, who has been on storm detail since December, “rose to the challenge of our director’s request for a one-person sandbag filling device,” city officials posted on Facebook.
The city shared a photo showing the makeshift system, which features four circular holes cut into a wooden table, and four traffic cones placed upside down in the holes to serve as funnels through which sandbags can be filled.
City officials are calling the invention, currently stored at the city’s Corp Yard, “Sione Sand Siphon” or “Sione’s Siphon.”
