DHS to Test Gaskets for Plugging Breached Levees

By: News Report on November 06, 2009

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At 10:00 a.m. on Nov. 9 the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Army Engineer Research and Development Center will test several concepts for portable lightweight ubiquitous gaskets for use in plugging breached levees. The tests will take place at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service Hydraulic Engineering Research Service facility in Stillwater, Okla.
Here is some information on a previous test of methods of rapidly plugging levee breaches.

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