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A river that can be switched on and off |
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 By the courtesy of British Waterways, AquaFence has established a demonstration site at Tees Barrage in UK.
Tees Barrage is a powerful watercourse that can be turned on or off at will, making it the most spectacular and practical flood control demonstration site in the UK.
The Tees Barrage is affected by tidal water and is also used by the local canoe club. The Bear Trap is the water gate between the race and the river. In an upcoming demonstration (see below) AquaFence will again install 1 element by the Bear Trap and perpendicular to the flow of the water. When the Bear Trap is opened AquaFence will be exposed to the full force of the river. It is expected that the water will build up and flow over the top of the fence. This will effectively demonstrate the strength of the AquaFence flood prevention system.
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A flyer for the Tees Barrage can be downloaded HERE.
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SEE THE LATEST FLOOD FIGHTING WEAPON AS MT. VERNON, WASHINGTON BECOMES THE FIRST TO INSTALL ‘AQUAFENCE’ |
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 The first full installation of AquaFence flood protection system took place during a demonstration and installation day in Mt. Vernon, Washington State on September 24th 2007. As the first town in the USA to choose the revolutionary AquaFence system, Mt. Vernon’s state-of-the-art flood fighting arsenal is now ready to be shown to the rest of the country. READ MORE!
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 See AquaFence flood protection installed in the streets of Mt. Vernon!
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Flood control in Mount Vernon - Seattle - USA |
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 MOUNT VERNON - When it comes to flood walls, perhaps it's best to leave it to the Norwegians. Ref. Skagit Valley Herald. The city of Mount Vernon has decided to fight their future flood problems along the downtown waterfront with the AquaFence` mobile flood protection system.
Representatives from the city's Public Works Department said the wall will replace the old sandbags that flood fighters know so well. "We certainly saw in this last flood event the amount of time and manpower and energy that goes into building a sandbag wall like that, and the dependency on volunteers can be problematic," they said. Now that the city has decided to buy the "Norwegian wall", it would run about 1,400 feet from Division to Kincaid streets. Each section of wall weighs about 150 pounds. With two city staff members posted every 100 feet, the wall could be set up in about two hours. A typical sandbag wall can take more than 12 hours to erect.
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 The portable wall will now allow the city to wait longer to monitor the forecast before building the protection wall, and it would take less time to remove the wall after the flood risk subsides.
This is the first portable flood wall AquaFence has sold in the United States.
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 The wall relies on the weight of the water to press down and stabilize the wall, creating a seal that would theoretically keep water out of downtown Mount Vernon.
When testing the system together with sandbags, in Mount Vernon Jan 2007, water started leaking out of the sandbag side of a basin on the revetment that city staff had constructed using about 1,500 sandbags and 28 linear feet of AquaFence flood wall. It was a really good example of how bad sandbags behave when the water starts pouring out the other way.
AquaFence Inc. is now established in Seattle, and ready to take further action in the United States.
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AquaFence at acqua alta 2006 |
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Aquafence attended the 3rd International Trade Fair and Congress for Flood Protection - acqua alta 2006 - at CCH in Hamburg, 13-15 September 2006.
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Click on pictures for details.
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Polar Ice Caps Are Melting Faster Than Ever |
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 From TIME Magazine March 26, 2006: The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame. Sea level may rise dramatically over the next 50-100 years.
The photograph taken in 1928 (left, upper part), shows how the Upsala Glacier, part of the South American Andes in Argentina, used to look. The ice on the Upsala Glacier today, shown in 2004 (lower part), is retreating at least 180 ft. per year.
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Read the TIME article here ...
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