TrapBag Flood Barriers in Canada
Flood Protection
One of the top uses for TrapBag is as a flood protection barrier. When filled with sand, gravel, or concrete, it makes for a sturdy, watertight barrier that protects the lives, homes, and businesses behind it. Whether your city’s business district needs additional protection ahead of a coastal storm approaching Newfoundland or protection from snowmelt flooding in Saskatchewan, TrapBag can help.
Learn More »Mudslide and Mudflow Protection
Mudslides and mudflows are a deadly threat in Canada, especially in mountainous areas like British Columbia, western Alberta, and the Yukon and Northwest Territories. These disasters cause billions of dollars in damage, strike without warning, and can be extremely deadly.
TrapBag barriers can stabilize slopes that are vulnerable to mudslides. They can also redirect mudflows away from properties and hold them back from reaching homes and businesses.
Learn More »Erosion Control
Canada’s coastal erosion control efforts are more important than ever to protect local wildlife. With shorelines eroding more with sea level rise and constant wave action, natural habitats and coastal communities alike are at risk of destruction.
TrapBag is an ideal erosion control solution because it takes on the impacts of wave action, protecting the shoreline behind it from further damage. TrapBag barriers also come with attachable lids that prevent the fill material from escaping while you use them to replenish beaches and coastal dunes.
Learn More »Seawalls
Seawalls are essential for protecting natural habitats and communities along Canada’s coasts and lakes. Seawalls brace against landmasses and coastlines to prevent erosion during storms, high tides, and other coastal flooding events.
TrapBag makes for an ideal base in vertical or mound seawalls. These barriers are more cost-effective and require less time and labor than traditional rip rap or concrete seawalls.
Learn More »Cofferdams
Cofferdams are structures placed in the water in or near a construction site to drain them. This in turn allows crews to work on them in the dried riverbed without disruption.
Traditional steel or metal cofferdams can be extremely expensive. They can also take weeks to build, delaying your project. However, construction companies across the world have trusted TrapBag to provide temporary water enclosures on their job sites because they’re a faster and easier, but just as effective, alternative.
Learn More »Projects
Who We Serve In Canada
We’ve worked with industries in countries all over the world, including communities in Saskatchewan and other parts of Canada. Here are some of the industries we support with our flood protection solutions.
Construction
Construction companies rely on TrapBag for many different scenarios on their project sites. Both commercial and residential construction projects use them to protect their sites from flooding, which can cause severe setbacks. In addition to using them as cofferdams, construction companies also use TrapBag to prevent soil erosion, redirect potential mudslides, and create industrial retaining walls that protect their project sites.
Learn More »Civil Engineering
Civil engineers use TrapBag to protect their roads, bridges, and other structures from natural disasters and the effects of climate change. Furthermore, they can also use these barriers to complete underwater construction projects and prevent erosion around the structures they design.
Learn More »Coastal Engineering
Coastal engineers have relied on TrapBag barriers to protect coastlines from rising water levels for over 20 years. They’ve also used TrapBags to protect infrastructure along the shoreline, restore depleted sand dunes, and reinforce coastal habitats during storms.
Learn More »Emergency Management
TrapBag was first designed as a response to ineffective flood protection systems when Hurricane Charley hit Florida in 2004. Since then, it has become a trusted tool for emergency management departments across the globe. Emergency response teams have used TrapBag to protect life and property as dams, levees, flood control barriers, and chemical spill containment barriers, among other solutions.
Learn More »TrapBag Flood Prevention & Erosion Control Barriers
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Reliable Strength
TrapBag’s unique design is meant to provide interconnected strength to each cell in the barrier. Because they’re all connected like an accordion, they lend their strength to each other when filled with sand, washed gravel, or concrete.
At the same time, if one cell in this flood protection barrier is compromised, the rest of the cells will still stand strong. By contrast, traditional sandbags give way very easily once one or two are compromised, causing further flood damage.
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Efficient Design
TrapBag barriers are designed with efficiency in mind. They are a low-cost, rapidly deployable flood control system with pentagon-shaped bags, with 60% of the mass in the bottom 50% of the barrier, making them more effective than regular sandbags.
TrapBag barriers are 300 times faster to install than a traditional sandbag wall, making them ideal for setting up efficient barriers in Canada in a fraction of the time. They also require 40% less fill material, making them more cost-effective than sandbags when factoring in time and labor for assembly
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Fast Deployment
Compared to traditional flood control barriers involving sandbags in Canada, TrapBag can be assembled and deployed in a fraction of the time. Two people and an equipment operator can install 100 linear feet of TrapBags per hour. On the other hand, a traditional sandbag flood wall can take days, even with an entire team of people filling and placing the bags up.