New Breach-Repair Technique Show Promising Results
Levee breaches, even in Mississippi River levees, potentially could be closed in a matter of hours using only fabric tubes and something abundantly available in a flood: water.
The results of a Sept. 30 demonstration at 1:4 scale of three new rapid levee-breach-repair techniques developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Miss., are “really impressive,” says Wil Laska, program manager for the Dept. of Homeland Security’s Levee Strengthening Program. DHS funded the proof-of-concept research and testing through its Advanced Research Projects Agency.