Marine barrier

A marine barrier comprising:

• an impermeable, flexible curtain extending in a longitudinal direction through a body of water transversely of the flow thereof, said curtain having a first side, a second side, an upper longitudinal edge, a lower longitudinal edge, a first end and a second end;
• a plurality of equally spaced, parallel ribs extending generally from said upper longitudinal edge to said lower longitudinal edge;
• a pocket enclosing each of said reinforcing ribs;
• a pair of metal plates associated with each end of each of said reinforcing ribs, one of said plates being disposed on said first side of said curtain and the other of said plates being disposed on said second side of said curtain to capture the associated end of said reinforcing rib and its pocket therebetween;
• a plurality of hollow cylindrical floats removably secured to said first side and to said second side of said curtain a predetermined distance below said upper longitudinal edge of said curtain to retain said upper longitudinal edge above the water level of said body of water, each of said floats on said first side being disposed directly opposite a float on said second side of said curtain;
• a plurality of anchors secured to said lower longitudinal edge of said curtain and being buried in the bottom of a basin containing said body of water, each of said anchors retaining said lower longitudinal edge of said curtain closely adjacent the bottom of the basin containing said body of water;
• a first post securing said first end of said curtain to a point on a first bank of said body of water without said body of water;
• a second post secured to said second end of said curtain within said body of water and spaced from a bank opposite said first bank;
• means for bracing said second post;
• and
• means for tensioning said curtain between said first post and said second post.