The high tide of saltwater flood season has passed.

Town Administrator Scott Thomas said the final king tide on Swinomish Channel until next fall will allow removal of flood barriers that have lined the La Conner waterfront for months.

“If you want to go out and get a picture of those orange sandbags so that you can remember them you’d better get out there,” Thomas told town council at its March 12 meeting. “They’ll be going away in a couple weeks and won’t be back until October.”

The Public Works Department will remove sandbags and ecology blocks that have protected the town’s waterfront and...