Proactive Solutions To Protect Your Assets: Human, Property and Financial
The impact of critical, acute events including flooding can both be direct, causing physical harm and threaten public safety, and indirect, disrupting business continuity, and putting operational resilience at risk.
Implementing flood protection can help corporations comply with the SEC’s proposed climate risk rule and requirement to disclose material risks. It’s a vital part of protecting the critical infrastructure and supporting emergency response. Engineered flood resiliency solutions that keep water away from your physical assets can help maintain business continuity and operational resilience even after critical events. Research shows that every $1 spent on flood prevention saves $6 in potential losses.
With over five decades of water controlling expertise, our team has industry-leading knowledge of water and how to protect you from the unpredictable consequences arising from water-related events. The forceful nature of water has the ability to harm assets in all forms, including property and people.
In 2004, Congress recognized the need to develop more expedient, cost effective, temporary flood fighting technologies.
Result:
According the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers report to Congress, Portadam’s strengths include ease of construction and removal (time, manpower, and equipment), low seepage rates, no required fill, high degree of reusability, and limited right-of-way required. After the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers finished testing the Portadam product, they also purchased 8,000 linear ft of 5-feet high units for flood control. They had sections then stationed across the country for rapid deployment to emergency sites. Having a flood fighting plan in place is essential. A Portadam system can be a key component of your plan. The system’s flexible design allows custom layout and our rental option eliminates the need for capital expenditure. Portadam’s rapid response approach provides flexibility and the setup & removal is quicker and requires less manpower & equipment than sandbags. The US Army Corps of Engineers has fully tested and vetted the system. Their reports on the results of those tests are available here.
In 2018, Sonoco’s Hartsville campus experienced devastating losses due to the flooding caused by Hurricane Matthew.
Result:
With the assistance of Portadam, Sonoco’s team was able to properly deploy almost 5,000 linear feet of flood protection equipment relative to the deployment locations and team assignments. By providing proper equipment, action plans, and training for different risk levels, the Sonoco team has been able to successfully manage two potential flooding incidents since Hurricane Matthew. During those deployments, visual aids enabled the Sonoco employees to deploy effectively, and in both cases they were able to deploy quickly resulting in no damage to their Hartsville manufacturing facility.
Spring thaw and rains caused the Mississippi River to swell and flooding of the casino property was eminent. The crest was expected to be a record of 48′ or more.
Result:
Hanks says the property saved itself valuable time and countless thousands of dollars in lost revenue and water damage. “No one is ever excited to find out that they could be flooded,” Hanks said. “With our property sitting on the riverbank, completely exposed, we knew we had to get a jump on the situation quickly if we were to keep our property protected. Just knowing that Portadam had enough product to surround the property was a welcome feeling.”
No job is too big or too small for us. Our expertise enables us to provide superior, collaborative customer service, working hand in hand with clients and using cutting edge technologies, custom tailored for every water management project.
Flood Protection
Industrial Campus
The team deployed almost 5,000 linear feet of flood protection equipment.
Flood Protection
Power Substation
Major energy supplier is protecting substations with solutions from our team.
Flood Protection
River Cresting
Flood Protection System installed prior to river cresting.
Flood Protection
Extend Levee
Flood Protection System installed to extend levee.
Flood Protection
Protecting Casino
Flood Protection System installed and protecting a Casino.