Water Control, Flood & Erosion Protection

Flood Defence

Sheet pile walls can be used in a variety of ways for flood defence systems.

For new river embankments they can ensure watertightness, support and stabilization. They are also used to┬ástrengthen existing embankments.

With a sheet pile wall, not only can an embankment be made watertight, but it can also be modified to┬áhold back a larger design flood without requiring greater footprint. This is a simple matter of designing the sheet pile wall to project the requisite height above the crest.

When space is an issue, sheet pile walls can form┬áfreestanding floodwalls to replace a flood embankment.

Advantages

Sheet piles are cost-and time-effective.
Equipment such as resonance free vibratory pile drivers result in less disturbance during installation.
Saves space.
Reusable in which sheet piles can be taken out of the ground and reposiitoned in another area. This particulary interesting where temporary flood protection is required.

Water Control

A water control structure is a device that alters the flow of water in a stream, drainage channel or storage pond. Sheet pile products have proven to be a sustainable, long lasting solution in many water control projects such as:

Toe walls for scour protection.
Weirs.
Undermining protection.
Stream bed grade stabilization.
Water diversion.
Mine drainage.

Sheet piling is an easy to install solution to line channels and ponds. Protecting against erosion and providing a seepage barrier.

Sheet piling is an eco-friendly and sustainable structure solution which is 100% recycable and minimizes ecological disturbance, a great benefit for environmentally concerned areas.