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The Metalith H2O flood fighting barriers were designed with Emergency Management agencies in mind. The Metalith H2O barriers were designed to be efficiently stored, easily shipped, erected without heavy equipment, except a Bobcat or front loader for filling, and installed by non-skilled help typically recruited during an emergency or a disaster.

Disasters can strike anytime and anywhere and they can take many forms:

Hurricanes
Earthquakes
Tornadoes
Floods

Fires
Hazardous spills
Other acts of nature, or
Acts of terrorism.

Whether the reacting agency is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), a former independent agency that became part of the new Department of Homeland Security in March 2003, tasked with responding to, planning for, recovering from, and mitigating against disasters, state emergency management operations, or county or local emergency management, the Metalith H2O barriers are the answer when rising flood waters, storm surges pushed by hurricanes or tropical storms, destabilized soil, or weakening levees are the problem.

Emergency management uses for Metalith H2O barriers include:

Bank / Slope stabilization barriers
Barrier walls
Bulkheads
Culvert pads
Emergency facility protection
Emergency flood containment barriers
Emergency flood deployment
Erosion control barriers
Flood control barriers
Flood mitigation barriers
Hurricane beach erosion barriers,
Land reclamation barriers
Levee armoring
Levee elevating,
Mudslide and debris flow barriers

New levee construction
Portable flood protection instead of sandbags walls
Retaining walls
Sand dune stabilization and armoring
Seawall barrier
Seawall repair
Soil stabilization
Spill containment
Temporary and permanent seawalls and bulkheads,
Temporary water storage pools, and
Water runoff redirection.

Our standard Metalith™ barriers, in combination with our roof designs, can provide:

Emergency management administration offices,
Emergency response worker temporary housing,
Emergency structures (walls and roofs) for numerous applications,
Food or supplies distribution facilities and perimeter barriers,
Refugee camp shelters,
Refugee shelter walls,
Temporary hospitals / emergency medical centers / aid stations,
Temporary law enforcement housing or operations facilities,
Temporary or semi-permanent supply depot structures, and
Vehicle or equipment storage facilities.

Infrastructure Defense Technologies' flood mitigation, flood protection, and erosion control barriers, are designed to protect critical infrastructure, as well as natural resources, from the ravages of nature.

For more information about Infrastructure Defense Technologies' flood barriers and erosion control barriers and applications, please call us at 1-800-379-1822, email us at info@metalithH2O.com, info@infrastructure-defense.com or fill out our contact form.

The Metalith H2O
A Division of Infrastructure Defense Technologies
3575 Morreim Drive • Belvidere, Illinois 61008
Phone: 1-800-621-5617 • Fax: 1-815-323-1317
Email: info@MetalithH2O.com

Please fill out our
contact form or speak directly to a Metalith H2O representative at:
1-800-379-1822.

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