When good (new) driveways go bad.
With bad weather on the way, and a 24-hour notice to fix in place from their local council, Michelle and Ross contacted our GM Beni to see if one of our ARK Flood Barriers might resolve an issue for them.
An incorrect slope to their brand-new driveway meant that any heavy rainfall was running off in the wrong direction, causing flooding to the neighbouring property. They needed to find a temporary solution until the issue with the driveway could be permanently sorted.
They had bought a bunch of sandbags, realised they didn’t have enough so bought some more, and then the scale of the job at hand to fill and lay these across their driveway became clear.
Beni agreed to loan them an ARK in return for some in-action photos and an honest assessment of their ARK deployment experience. After a quick trip across from Whakatane, and Beni talking them through how to get it operational, back they went to Whakatane and deployed ARK across their driveway themselves, perfectly.
One of the things we talk about with ARK is that it is protecting your property from the minute it starts filling with water. It doesn’t need to be fully inflated to work, whatever the fill level is your property is protected to that height. As you can see from the photos, Michelle and Ross only filled to around 150mm high but that was enough for ARK to contain the water and divert it away from their neighbour’s property, as planned. As Michelle said, “it worked so well”.
ARK Flood Barriers – doing their job by re-directing damaging water flow.
Smart. Simple. Solutions.
