[Water News] DJ Gongol & Associates Water News

[Brian Gongol]

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Highlights from the past week
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Toronto is facing multi-million-dollar fines for letting stormwater 
bypass the city's wastewater plant:
http://www.pumpstoreusa.com/newsletter/2009/09/21/

Floods in Atlanta followed 15-inch rainfalls in some places:
http://www.pumpstoreusa.com/newsletter/2009/09/22/

Nebraska officials are walking a fine line to try to get irrigators to 
cut back on water use:
http://www.pumpstoreusa.com/newsletter/2009/09/23/

Controlling the Los Angeles River looked like a great idea 70 years ago. 
Now, the public has turned against the project, or at least the look of it:
http://www.pumpstoreusa.com/newsletter/2009/09/24/

There's water-based ice on the Moon. Really:
http://www.pumpstoreusa.com/newsletter/2009/09/25/


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After hearing from our friends in northern Georgia about the massive 
flooding that swept in a little over a week ago, we are reminded that 
flooding can occur during any time of year -- summer and fall floods can 
accompany strong thunderstorms, winter floods can result from ice jams, 
and spring flooding occurs in the overlap between snowmelt and the 
proverbial "April showers".

Floodwaters can rise in severity with little warning, and it's not 
always possible to deploy sandbags or build earthen dams everywhere 
they're needed on short notice. We're eager to tell people about the 
Aqua Dam from Layfield, which can act as a portable dam for emergency 
use. The Aqua Dam is quite literally a dam held up by the force of the 
water inside it, so it's fast and easy to deploy, requiring only a 
fraction of the manpower of a comparable sandbag-based levee.

If you'd like to know more, please visit 
http://www.pumpstoreusa.com/portabledams/ or call us at 515-223-4144 and 
ask for details.


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