Flood Barrier ​for Flood Protection in Urban Environments

The NOAQ Boxwall is a freestanding Flood Barrier designed for use in urban environments that feature hard and even surfaces like asphalt streets and concrete floors.

The NOAQ Boxwall is anchored using the weight of the floodwater alone. This award-winning ”book- end principle” technology allows us to make the flood barrier extremely lightweight with each ”box” weighing less than 3.5 kg (7.5 lbs).

Despite it’s light weight, the 50 cm (nearly 2 ft) high barrier is reliably stable even when damming water to its upper edge!

A NOAQ Boxwall floodbarrier is assembled by simply snapping boxes together to the desired length and fixing them to each other using clamps. The +/-3° flexible coupling also makes it possible to create curves in the wall.

After use, the floodbarrier units are easily detached and can be cleaned using a garden hose.

Another big advantage is that the BoxWall flood barrier boxes can be stacked, which means they require very little space for storage and transport. A single standard 20’ container can store enough units to create a 1000 metres of BoxWall.

Read more: Flood Control International

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• Urban Drainage
• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Technology
• Flood Management
• Urban Water
• Urban Drainage System
• Urban Water Infrastructure
• Flood management
• Flood Risk Management
• Urban Design

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1. Land-use planning and Zoning ordinance is must for preventing flood: Action Plan

   Land-use planning and zoning ordinance restricts building near rivulets and water courses. In the process of shifting, the old dwellers need to be given land in safe areas and transferred in a phase-wise manner. Water harvesting and runoff reduction measures need to be taken up in a large scale.

   The Search & rescue desk should be headed by Police Chief of the area with a rescue team consisting of at least 40 members selected from local police force. Police control system, medical relief responsibility and public welfare issues should be explained in the existing Rescue and Relief Action Plan with representation from Govt., NGOs and public before monsoon. Tasks should include monitoring evacuation operation, search and rescue operations, restoration of law and order situation at the disaster site and ensuring security to properties of the affected people. An administrative Officer from the revenue department should be the In-Charge of logistics arrangements. Senior medical officer should man medical desk. A senior officer from any one of the works Department, viz., PWD, PHED, Water Resource Department, and Municipal Corporation should head the Infrastructure desk. With such measures, vulnerability has been reduced in many areas.