Everyone wants to smell good. Much like buying clothing, the scent you choose should fit your personality and lifestyle because it can speak volumes. Thousands of people are currently
battling the elements to stack sandbags in front of their homes and hope for
the best – while a more reliable, simple and affordable answer to protecting
properties has been available to local authorities for more than 12
months.
The award-winning FLOODSTOP
barrier was the brainchild of the founder and director of Fluvial
Innovations, Simon Phelps, 26. He
developed the idea after watching a TV programme recounting the devastating
Lewes & Uckfield floods of 2000. The
programme demonstrated that 500+ properties were flooded, many because
sandbagging methods failed. Since graduating in 2005, Simon has been working
alongside
The product has since been bought by
homeowners across the
But Simon says every area at risk
today, tomorrow and in the future needs far greater protection than sandbags
will offer.
“Sandbags were used during the summer
floods of 2007. They didn’t work then and they have never been effective at flood prevention. Sandbags are deployed to put peoples minds at
rest that councils are doing something, when in truth they are expensive, slow
to assemble and completely ineffective at dealing with floodwaters”
“The FLOODSTOP Modular Flood Barrier is cheaper
and far more effective than sandbags.
The barrier can be rapidly deployed by one person. It doesn’t need to be bolted to the ground
and the units, are simply connected using slide-in keys. The barrier is
re-useable, unlike sandbags; and it works, unlike sandbags. Local authorities
are wasting a large percentage of their budgets on sandbags that are prone to
leakage, slow to assemble and can only be used once.”
“Floodstop units actually fill with
the rising flood waters, this weighs the barrier down. The beauty of this system is that when flood
waters eventually recede the barrier becomes light enough to be taken away by
one person”