Flood Control Method

Abstract

A method of water capture by pin-pointing likely excess flow locations and preventing flood damage. Captured water into temporary storage such as tanks, reservoirs, fabric tube arrays, or available lakes, can ultimately provide fresh water augmentation in many regions. Captured water will be tested, treated as needed, reclaimed and identified into central online storage sites. Not needed excess flows would be released after storm season. By flood damage and clean up avoidance, it provides ultimate long term flood pollution abatement for homes, businesses, farms and communities of affected US waterways.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 229,429 filed on Jul. 29, 2009, entitled “Flood Control Method”BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONField of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to a method of controlling flood water by using new online databases to predict floods and redistribute the water to regions in need.SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION[0003]Establishing a pre-flood harvesting capability and unifying the tasks and coordinated planning of applications, while retaining the present expertise will greatly economize Water, Power, and Environmental protection costs and operations. Growing water shortages, water quality issues, waste distribution controls and related recurring problems of floods, can be addressed with this method. Expansion of reservoirs, tank farms, temporary fabric tubes and storage, evaporators, tankers, barges, rail tankers and trucks makes good economic use of new and proven capabili...

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Benefits of technology

[0003]Establishing a pre-flood harvesting capability and unifying the tasks and coordinated planning of applications, while retaining the present expertise will greatly economize Water, Power, and Environmental protection costs and operations. Growing water shortages, water quality issues, waste distribution controls and related recurring problems of floods, can be addressed with this method. Expansion of reservoirs, tank farms, temporary fabric tubes and storage, evaporators, tankers, barges, rail tankers and trucks makes good economic use of new and proven capabilities. Online system information with status of water quality, status and flood data tailored by location offers uniform controls, continuous reporting and summaries of Fresh water purified for delivery to Homes, Farms and Businesses. Incorporation of broad regional applications with a broader view of water availability can result from these unified activities. All can be accomplished in compliance with regulations at competitive water prices. Major Floods like one in 1924, Hurricane Katrina, plus ongoing levy maintenance, and some Damage Insurance for FMEA annual costs will no doubt continue to challenge us. Some regions will require additional flood control reservoirs. U.S. jobs (at least 25,000) and improved pure water using power or energy's waste heat including Nuclear Energy will also profit from above planned, guided, enhanced, and maintained facilities employing online coordinated information systems with uniform standards where appropriate. Reduced foreign dependencies in fossil fuel and farm products further enhance national objectives including US business and job retention.

[0005]It is therefore an object of the present invention to combined digital data for potential flood water capture prediction and diversion enables new flood point control for federal and local agencies. New combined digital online stream flow, water depth, rate of change in depth, and designated flood depths at thousands of these same specific locations along more the 9.000 miles of Mississippi river regions and most main rivers of the US. This enables timely dispatch of new Flood Water capture teams to reach and set up water diversion equipment in hours instead of months or not at all. Locations will be zip-coded plus the corresponding Federal and State address codes by river and tributary locations. These are specified and permitted by USACOE and / or USGS of FEMA, with accurate numbered location sites of the potential flood points, and identified dikes, levy, reservoirs, and related flood ways of USACOE addresses. New addition of digital predictions of NOAA National Weather Service projected precipitation amounts, times, dates, locations of storms and wind directions, will also be mapped to the predicted exact locations, and apply any “road closed due to storm” broadcasts. All digital inputs will be displayed to Capture Team dispatcher coordinators in online Flood Control Centers from each source. These include FEMA, the US Coast Guard, State and local agencies. All will be digitally corrected to the same scales, time, and date periods. These sources will be mapped to digital US maps in a combined computers source of continuously upgraded data flow from these several US federal and local, and US mapping data sources. Commercial digital maps as needed, and already permitted will be used and maintained in the appropriate Flood Control Operations Centers. These centers will be established corresponding to existing regions and all will have emergency power backup.

[0008]Yet another object of the present invention are significant environmental benefits from using test, treat, tag and temporary store method at the water capture site, a new capability. It enables compliant recording of indicated contamination and zip-coded source and samples. This provides more specific address of any identified serious contamination for follow up to its source. Data and samples to process correction by local or federal authorities is a new environmental control.

Problems solved by technology

Annual storm and spring thaw-driven floods along the major US rivers and their tributaries have resulted in loss of life and billions of dollars in damages and lost productivity to countless thousands of American families, homes, farms, and businesses.

Related costs for repair and a variety of products sold annually to potential flood victims, amount to negative economic cash flow with little predictability and minor relief to its victims.

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