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  2. Protect Your Home From Water Damage With These 5 Flood ... - AOL

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    QD610-8 Water Activated Flood Barrier (8-Pack) Quick Dam flood barriers are a lightweight sandbag alternative due to their long, sock-like shape and synthetic filling.

  3. HydroSack - Wikipedia

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    A HydroSack or a HydroSnake is a brand name for a flood control sandbag alternative made by Gravitas International of Cheshire, North West England. [1] They are very lightweight and thin until they come into contact with water, then they begin to retain water until they have reached capacity. The devices then resist any further water excess.

  4. Sandbag - Wikipedia

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    A sandbag or dirtbag is a bag or sack made of hessian (burlap), polypropylene or other sturdy materials that is filled with sand or soil and used for such purposes as flood control, military fortification in trenches and bunkers, shielding glass windows in war zones, ballast, counterweight, and in other applications requiring mobile ...

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  6. Flood management - Wikipedia

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    Eight foot tall water filled barriers were used to surround Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station during the 2011 Missouri River Flooding. Instead of trucking in sandbag material for a flood, stacking it, then trucking it out to a hazmat disposal site, flood control can be accomplished by using the on site water. However, these are not fool ...

  7. Homes flooded and travel disrupted by Storm Bert - AOL

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    She then rang the Department for Infrastructure's (DfI) flood incident helpline to ask for sandbags. "I made them aware of the situation in the street, the water was coming up the manholes," she ...

  8. Bulkhead (barrier) - Wikipedia

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    The Cape Hatteras lighthouse stands behind a seawall of sandbags that temporarily stabilized the eroding shore; wave action destroyed the seawall soon after it was built. Studies over recent decades have resulted in public awareness as to potential negative effects that bulkheads may bring to beaches and the interconnected habitat areas of fish ...

  9. Why do people use sandbags before a flood? - AOL

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    It's common to see homes barricaded with sandbags in anticipation of severe flooding. Why are sandbags used and what makes them so effective? Why do people use sandbags before a flood?

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