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The Concertainer, [1] known colloquially as the Hesco barrier [2] or Hesco bastion, [3] with HESCO being the brand name of the manufacturer, is a modern gabion primarily used for flood control and military fortifications. [4]
The Fox Point Hurricane Barrier is a 3,000-foot (910 m) long tidal flood barrier spanning the Providence River in Providence, Rhode Island, located 750 feet (230 m) upstream from Fox Point. It was constructed between 1960 and 1966 to protect the low-lying downtown area of the city from damaging storm surge and floods associated with hurricanes ...
A flood barrier, surge barrier or storm surge barrier is a specific type of floodgate, designed to prevent a storm surge or spring tide from flooding the protected area behind the barrier. A surge barrier is almost always part of a larger flood protection system consisting of floodwalls , levees (also known as dikes), and other constructions ...
The self-closing flood barrier (SCFB) is a flood defense system designed to protect people and property from inland waterway floods caused by heavy rainfall, gales, or rapid melting snow. [citation needed] The SCFB can be built to protect residential properties and whole communities, as well as industrial or other strategic areas. The barrier ...
A floodwall at Zruč nad Sázavou, Czech Republic Floodwall in Sunbury, Pennsylvania Floodwall and a sliding gate in New Orleans French Market (1986). A floodwall is a freestanding, permanent, engineered structure designed to prevent encroachment of floodwaters. [1]
height = the height of a non-submerged flood gate from the bottom of the water column to the water surface measured in metres. If the rectangular flood gate is submerged below the surface the same equation can be used but only the height from the water surface to the middle of the gate must be used to calculate the force on the flood gate.
Most regulatory authorities in the United States that offer requirements for flood openings define two major classes of opening: [1] engineered, and non-engineered. The requirements for non-engineered openings are typically stricter, defining necessary characteristics for aspects ranging from overall size of each opening, to allowable screening or other coverage options, to number and ...
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