The Integrated Drain Gate
Seawall System (IDGSS) was designed to mitigate flooding due to rising sea water, severe rain and
storm damages at costal area or other various waterfront properties like riverbanks, bay, beach, ocean, lake,
marsh and low
lying areas. The IDGSS has incorporated two functions simultaneously by separating water and land with a flood resilient fixed
water barrier wall, but more importantly, has an automatic drainage
system, especially for an unexpected severe and prolonged storms; to address the unintended consequence of
trapping water inside the pre-existing
water barrier walls. Unfortunately, during these severe storms, the trapped water has created a
bathtub like
scenario by the manmade fixed wall barriers, and causing an insult to an injury to an already devastated
storm conditions, due to a lack of drainage systems. To mitigate this type of severe drainage problem, IDGSS was created with a characteristics of a concrete wall blocks, which includes a one-way valve or flap drain gate inside as a single unified structure, with an adjustable one-way valve or flap drain gate specification; with a various shape, sizes, materials and configurations for both one-way valve or flap gate and wall blocks; and adaptable
retrofitting mechanisms to meet the site specific
topography and special drainage needs. To protect the one-way valve or flap gate drainage
system and to allow for an efficient drainage pathway
system, the wall blocks are built to withstand severe wind and unpredictable weather conditions to become
storm resilient, pressure reducing mechanism within the unlimited combinations of geometrical wall shape and size arrangements. Thus, the IDGSS is a reinforced wall system that can adapt to a specific drainage problem by allowing the trapped water to be returned back to where it came from as long as the water recedes by gravity.