WaStop protects historic City of St Augustine

City of Saint Augustine| Saint Augustine, Florida| Flood protection

The problem

The most vulnerable outfalls were to be fitted with inline check valves and WaStopwas chosen for a number of these outfall in order to stop the salt water backflow. In some cases, the valves replaced damaged flap valves and duck bills, and in other installations there was previously no valve in place.
Installations needed to be quick and easy given many of the installation were in tidal areas.

Wastop Backventil

Solution

WaStop® Inline Check valve

Immediately after installation the flooding was completely mitigated. The streets are now dry, and work can be done on repairing the roads and other infrastructure now that there is peace of mind knowing that nuisance flooding won’t occur again.

WaStop is quick and easy to install allowing most City’s to do the installation themselves. Saint Augustine used their own maintenance team for installation saving considerable monetary resources by not needing to use an external contractor. Comparatively Saint Augustine lowered the total cost (product + installation) by 64% through using in-house maintenance workers compared to using an external contractor.

There are a further 9 projects underway in Saint Augustine to protect the City and its heritage against flooding.

Thanks to Jessica Beach for the information and images.

www.citystaug.com

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