Re: OT-Ideas for watergate

Posted by Bill in NC on September 13, 2004 at 12:24:03 from (70.60.104.251):

In Reply to: Re: OT-Ideas for watergate posted by Andy Martin on September 13, 2004 at 11:00:31:

Depending on the length and strength of the
low water bridge, you could use an eye-bolt
arrangement to position a steel rod parallel
with the road which is yoked on each end with
affixed to cables running underneath the
bridge to upstream posts on each side of the
creek. Providing the bridge has enough
integrity to support the downward weight of the
floodgate doors, during floods the upstream
posts would provide the "hold-back" . In
addition, the upstream posts would also be
providing counter-flow force for the bridge, too.
Going a step further, a four post arrangement
would be even better with two posts set way
back from the stream in stable soil and two
posts set adjacent to the bridge's upstream
entrance. The close-in posts would act to
bring the cable into a parallel arrangment prior
to meeting up with the flood gates steel hinge
rod. An additional thought is to rig the
floodgate sections in a fashion that looks like
a home garage door installed backwards
where the articulating pieces individually
hydroplane up in sections as the flood waters
rise.

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