Roadway-levee
OwnerRonald Scott Bondsinventor
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Abstract
A water or flood control and containment system is provided having foundations, sealed bases, supporting structure, and pumping system that gives the user control over water containment and movement either to reduce the water hazard or to store water. The bases are secured and sealed to paved surfaces with foundations that have been preset into the street or other prepared foundation. When deployed on multiple adjacent streets, the system creates a compartmented barrier containment system that mitigates flooding and storm surges. The invention is to be removed and stored off site when not in use.
Claims13
A kit of parts for constructing a compartmentalized levee system adapted for temporary erection on intersecting roadways or other paved surfaces by means of which a scaffolding system may be installed above at least some of the intersecting paved surfaces from which may be hung a water resistant barrier material to provide a plurality of protected compartments within an area to be protected, said kit of parts comprising:
- at least four vertical posts;
- at least one vertical central core;
- a plurality of horizontal bottom rails for connecting respective lower portions of said four vertical posts to a shared lower portion of said vertical central core with each of said horizontal bottom rails extending in a different direction from the vertical central core;
- at least two sheets of water resistant barrier material;
- means for holding up said at least two sheets of water resistant barrier material vertically between each of said four vertical posts and said vertical central core, whereby four respective portions of said water resistant barrier material each extending in a different direction from said vertical central core will define respective portions of four compartments;
- means for providing a water resistant horizontal seal under the horizontal bottom rails between a lower portion of said water resistant barrier material and the paved surfaces, and
- means for providing a water resistant vertical seal between each of four portions of said water resistant barrier material and said vertical central core.
A compartmentalized levee system for temporary erection on intersecting roadways or other paved surfaces with a two dimensional array of at least four adjacent protected compartments, said levee system comprising:
- at least four vertical posts;
- at least one vertical central core;
- a plurality of horizontal bottom rails connecting respective lower portions of said vertical posts to each other and to a shared lower portion of said vertical central core with each of said horizontal bottom rails extending in a different direction from the vertical central core;
- at least two sheets of water resistant barrier material;
- first means extending between an upper end of each of said four vertical posts and the vertical central core for hanging four respective upper portions of said water resistant barrier material each extending in a different direction from the vertical central core, to thereby define respective portions of said four compartments;
- second means for providing a water resistant horizontal seal under the horizontal bottom rails between a lower portion of said water resistant barrier material and the paved surfaces;
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- third means for providing a water resistant vertical seal between each of four portions of said water resistant barrier material and the vertical central core.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.