How to Save Our Shores From Floods

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A More Viable Seawall

A new type of cheap retaining wall or dam has been invented that could be used also as a levy when the waters rise. There are only four types of bridges they have been able to build in all of science, The Beam, it's a post across the river (or a road if you're our famous courier named Theresa, Joyce or Tammy). The Truss which is supported from the sides to the center, The Arch, and the Suspension Bridge. While the suspension bridge is a sort of arch upside down, the biggest bridges are all suspension bridges because this is the most strong, but interestingly enough while there are lots of arch dams and dams of other types, other than inflatable dams, there were no dams based on suspension (preacher's say we may all be in suspension above heck's damnation!) Like the suspension bridge, suspension dams may be of worth because of the large amount of lift they support per unit of structural material used to make the machine.

Before Hurricane Katrina hit many like me tried to think of a way to make a good seawall like an inflatable wall that would be affordable and strong to save New Orleans from the risk of storms. Innovators thought of an inflatable wall, but couldn't figure out how to anchor it securely so none of the water would leak through. The problem, with an inflatable wall like an inflatable dam, is that if it leaks, it has twice as much that can go wrong, because it can both leak water and air. This idea was improved by making it just a strong cover of material to hold the water held up on both sides by a strong wire or hawser the wire connects to via support beams like the towers of a suspension bridge, these are of a special type that have heavy weights on the side to the water the towers lean toward also so they use gravity when pulled upward to help make the wall strong against the incoming waves. The side near the land is dug in deep for support with a deep post at the same angle as the tower which is angled away from the land, so the gravity of the weights and the foundation of the posts gives them the strength needed to withstand high waters if needed but at a lower cost of materials like the suspension bridge. To build the wall or dam the towers would be rolled to the site and the cover of the dam put over the heavy line between the towers, the sheet would be stretched to a small waterproof wall closer to the water it would be attached to with such as clamps or stones on top with the sheet stretched farther seaward with more rocks or concrete ect., to secure the foundation if the most watertightness is needed, like for high dams inland. The lower waterproof seawall is important because it would be easier to see if it leaked because it's much smaller than a giant dam, saving lots of materials and labor but reliable enough to be viable.

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To find out if it's worthy two walls would first be built, a few feet apart parallel to the shore, if it turns out there are almost no leaks the walls built in later times would just have one wall. Small scale (a few feet high) suspension walls of this sort could be tested in wave tanks.

This would be a good safety dam sort of like a safety net so the web could be made much higher, faster and cheaper than the Mars Jars! (Faster, Better...Was the NASA slogan). To build a dam the hawser would be stretched from two strong anchors on both sides, then the dam stretched over it then the tarp would be secured. Dams of this sort could be used in flooding sides of rivers in place of sandbags fast if the low waterproof walls near the waves along the shore to be protected were built and well proven to be anchored and watertight. Digging would be easier with seawalls because there aren't alot of optic fiber wires, propane, and clumps of grass and other unpredictable stuff the water would go through like on river banks, causing leaks without more caution. Seawalls may also be much improved by the floating wave barriers that have been devised that break the waves before they hit, anchored to the seafloor by standard sea anchors farther out in the ocean. The covers could be reinforced with strong wires made of carbon fibers like fullerenes or proton wires fibers made of much stronger density of the strong force, held together by the poles of each proton and without ionization even if of protons by a tube of electrons around the proton core, a sort of continuous atom which would have more strength in tension than any other electromagneticaly bound solid except because of the strong force compression of the field of each pole of the protons. If the wave cancelling barriers were not completely efficient, even if the towers are anchored by both gravity and beveled, the oscillation of the wave motion may make the towers work loose. With these super strong solids, lightweight plates could be made instead of the tarps held by the lines, these would be more stable and easier to put up. They lean toward land, and the towers supporting the shields beveled away from it, with the weights on the side of the towers away from land to add stability, and the wave barriers out to sea would cancel most of the wave motion.

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