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Quebec City Demonstration Day
Barrier Solutions recently assisted a trial day of our 36” high Floodstop barrier in Montreal, Quebec. The trial was organized by Quebec City and the outcome saw Floodstop becoming an approved product for the province of Quebec. The test was a simple U shaped deployment and then pumped full of waters.
Floodstop in action at Pieerefonds Roxboro
Earlier this year 36″ Floodstop was deployed by the City of Montreal to protect households in Pieerefonds Roxboro QC. The system was in place and protected against 22 inches of tidal water.
Barrier Solutions welcomes special guests
Barrier Solutions had the pleasure of hosting representatives from U.S. Congressman Collin Peterson’s office last week. Jacki Anderson and Grant Herfindahl took a tour of Barrier Solutions and discussed how our Floodstop modular flood barrier is being utilized protecting assets across the US from major flood events.
Flood barriers protect key assets
Barriers Solutions is delighted to be able to help protect a large storage facility in Ohio. Floodstop flood barriers have been deployed on a permanent basis to protect the company’s assets from flooding which can be caused by a nearby creek. When deployed Floodstop barricades provide a robust, non-nonsense, vandal proof flood protection system.
Floodstop Flood Barriers to replace Dikes
Taken from Article in Lapresse.ca on 5.4.18
Hard hit by the floods in 2017, the Borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro is testing new mobile dikes to replace sandbags and further limit the damage during the next floods.
Edwin Romero keeps a fond memory of the floods of last year.Foreman for Pierrefonds, it was he who had received the call of the first citizen to see his house invaded by the waters of the Rivière des Prairies. For days, he and his colleagues worked tirelessly to fill, move, and stack sandbags in an attempt to stem the tide. “It was hard for the teams, both physically and mentally,” he recalls.
The mobile dikes tested are composed of plastic structures reminiscent of concrete blocks, which interlock into one another to form a barrier. A team of three employees can erect a complete dike in just one hour. In comparison, a similar barrier would require 300 to 400 bags of sand, which would monopolize twenty people for five to six hours.
“We can not stop the whole river with that, but in strategic places, it will be useful. “
– Johanne Palladini, spokesperson for the Borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro
Barriers are also more stable than bags that can move under the force of water. Another advantage is that mobile dikes can be reused from one year to another, unlike sandbags, which are considered contaminated after use and must be discarded.
Floodstop flood defenses used in training excercise
See below an image of our 0.9m high Floodstop flood defenses being utilized in an emergency flood training exercise.
In this exercise a U-shaped Floodstop deployment is assembled to create a safe working area for emergency teams.
Flood Hardening Report Receives an ‘A’ rating
Video Introduction – Floodstop
We are pleased to release our latest promotional video. To watch a video introduction of our Floodstop flood defense barriers please click on the following video link:
Floodstop protects a large number of electrical stations
Western Power Distribution, part owned by PPL Corporation (formerly known as Pennsylvania Power and Light) a USA based electric generating company use Floodstop to protect a large number of their electrical stations. Well over 1,200 metres of Floodstop has been supplied to this large electrical generation company as a rapid response and permanent flood prevention measure. Continue reading