75% of the $5.3 BILLION in annual
flood damage is from floodwaters
less than 3' deep.
The FLOODWALLS system can be
deployed by volunteers and emergency
response personnel in less than 2
minutes per foot. Sandbags
take over 50 times longer.
Save your share of the Billions of
dollars of property damage losses,
every year for the next 20 years or
more.
Traditionally, flood
protection has been sandbags, lots
and lots of sandbags. Although a
sandbag dike or wall can be an
effective barrier, building a
protective wall, with sand bags, is
extremely manpower intensive, time
consuming and expensive. For
example a sandbag dike 300' long and
3' high takes:
Then when the flood is over there
will still be over 250 tons of sand
and debris that must be cleaned-up
and carried to the landfill.
Depending on the local costs for
manpower, materials, transportation
and landfill that 300' wall could
have costs that top $62,000 to
deploy, build, and remove.
Sandbags are also a filter trap for
bacteria, viruses, and any toxic or
hazardous chemicals that are carried
to the them by the surging
floodwaters. These remain trapped in
the sand and must be disposed of
accordingly to avoid the associated
heath and environmental risks.
To see a presentation about
FLOODWALLS and see the report from
the US Army Corp of Engineers -
Engineer Research and Development
Center
CLICK HERE.
