Hurricane Florence
Hurricane Florence has been making a dangerous and terrifying impact, particularly in the Carolina’s. The catastrophic blows of the hurricane that was downgraded to a tropical storm then picked up enough momentum to become a hurricane again are seemingly unending. In North Carolina, 750,000+ residences and businesses have lost electricity. There has already been approximately ...
Reducing Your Footprint While Doing 3-D Projects
In today’s day and age, environmental awareness and protection is a hot topic and key concern to the population as a whole. Environmental regulations in construction and industry continue to be set in order to make the products offered and the procedures followed more environmentally-conscientious. Environmentally friendly solutions in construction can always be achieved and ...
Wildfire Emergency Solutions Using Cofferdams
For all the many uses of water prevention cofferdams, why couldn’t it be used for purposes of drought or even fire? What if cofferdams could be used as a water preserver instead of just a block? The versatility of the portable and temporary cofferdam offered by Dam-It Dams is more than enough for most tasks-at-hand, ...
Revisiting Cofferdams versus Sandbags
Sandbags as Water Barriers Sandbags were once the go-to for flood protection and water barriers, but in recent years, more and more studies have found this method to be a dangerous and out-dated one. We’ve noted this in a previous article but below is a more exhaustive in-depth list of the various concerns that come ...
Peak Hurricane Season Expectations 2018
Peak Hurricane Season Expectations 2018 September is the apex month for hurricanes, though hurricane season begins in June and ends in November, with May being the least likely to produce storms that will develop into hurricanes. There are many classifications of storms that potentially develop into hurricanes with different categories of these storms. The whole ...
Three Major Storm Occurrences This Week
Hurricane Hector, located in the Pacific Ocean, south of Big Island in Hawaii was classified as a category 3 hurricane, according to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. High surf and windy conditions resulted on Big Island accompanied by occasional periods of rain.Hector was classified as a category 3 on Wednesday, and maintains its intensity, a ...
Lynchburg, VA Dam
Eleven states ranging from Georgia to Vermont face flash flood warnings and watches, affecting 24 million people, thanks to dangerous storms that are moving along the eastern coast of the U.S. and residents in Lynchburg, VA are definitely facing their own trials today in light of this weather. College Lake Dam in Lynchburg is filled ...
The 3 D’s of Water Control
We’ve discussed the “3-D’s” of in-water construction, repairs, and inspection before, but we’d like to give you a slightly more in-depth explanation on this subject. There is a difference and each job requires different solutions in order to safely, accurately, and punctually get the job done. De-Watering is also known as un-watering and it is ...
Inland Flooding
The dangers of hurricanes and tropical storms is pretty apparent, not to mention calamitous, we all know this. However, there is also another danger associated with these massively powerful storms; a risk known as inland floods, also called aftershocks. Inland flooding is the intense level of flooding that immediately follows the initial storm, be it ...
In-Water Repair using Cofferdams
Oftentimes, repairs to existing construction work require in-water productivity. These activities can be extremely difficult and sometimes dangerous while adding an extra layer of trials to the existing work at hand. A few examples of repairs requiring in-water construction are pool maintenance, repair to dams, concrete and pillar repair, inspection and repair of pipelines, and ...