Debris Shield Mesh

Apparatus comprising at least one flood barrier assembly arranged on land near a waterway, comprising:

• a substantially horizontal support housing situated in or on the land and having a bottom pan and front, back and lateral sides,
• a panel having a top surface, a bottom surface, a front end, a back end, and lateral sides of a length that runs from the back end to at least near the front end of the panel, the panel residing in the support housing in a lowered position in which the lateral sides having an imagined projected intersecting angle to the waterway, the lateral sides defining between them the width of the panel, the panel being hinged at the back end of the panel to an interior of the back side of the support housing to rotate upwardly from the housing to an upright raised position where invading flood water will be contained at the bottom surface of the panel, and
• a debris shield mesh having mesh openings so porous as to allow water to flow freely through the mesh openings but not debris of a size larger than the mesh openings, the debris shield mesh having a top side and an underside, opposite ends and a lateral width substantially as wide as the width of the panel, in a first instance one end of the debris shield mesh attaching to a fixture in an interior of the front side of the support housing, said fixture having substantially the same width as the debris shield mesh, and the opposite end of the debris shield mesh attaching to a roller rotating on a horizontal axle mounted in a interior of the front end of the panel, and in an alternative second instance, one end of the debris shield mesh attaching to a roller rotating on a horizontal axle mounted in the interior of the front end of the housing, said roller having substantially the same width as the debris shield mesh, and the opposite end of the debris shield mesh attaching to a fixture at the front end of the panel, this fixture having substantially the same width as the debris shield mesh.