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Floodgate Technology

Texas Firm with a Traveling Demonstration Exhibit Says There is New Development for Flood Protection

Representative for FloodBreak Automatic Floodgates of Houston, Texas, showed off its floodgate invention. The system uses the hydrology of rising flood water to raise a flood protection gate.

No Power, no manpower needed, Vic Althoff, FloodBreak representative, told city officials and engineers with area firms during a demonstration at Cedar Rapids' City Services Center.

Althoff said the company's floodgate technology can provide flood protection to individual properties, streets and bridges and to long stretches of property. He said the company developed its floodgate technology in the wake of Tropical Storm Allison that caused significant damage in southeast Texas in 2001.

The University of Houston, the University of Colorado and hospitals in Houston, Galveston, Texas, and Binghamton, N.Y., are among FloodBreak customers.

Sandy Pumphrey, Cedar Rapids' project engineer for flood protection, was among those looking on at the FloodBreak demonstration.

Source: The Gazette

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