Just as the award-winning Rapidam keeps water away from a building, Rapitank can either prevent floodwater from gaining access – creating a dry refuge – or be used as a storage container, for example to hold clean water or retain contaminated water.
Rapitank is as quick and easy to erect as a Rapidam but also contains a groundsheet attached to the barrier for a completely watertight structure. The seal is created by a patented Floodguard beading seal. Rapitanks start at three metres square and can be extended in 10 metre lengths to any size.
Extra equipment can be incorporated into a Rapitank – they contain integrated connection points. As an example, vehicles or buildings can be decontaminated within a Rapitank, retaining fouled water for filtration and reuse or safe disposal. Smaller Rapitanks can be assembled by one person and are perfect as secure personnel decontamination sites.
Among a host of other uses are:
- Water holding tank
- Desalination plant
- Oil bund
- Fish-holding tank
- Fluid containment
- Spillage retention
- Utility protection
- River oil pollution retention –allowing clean water to pass under the Rapitank barrier
Rapitank has been designed to be erected in adverse weather conditions, including high winds and driving rain. Rapitanks can be left flat until the moment they are needed and then just pulled up into position.
Rapitanks are light and need minimal manpower to erect – perfect for fast reactions to emergencies.
If a spillage is important enough for the emergency services to attend, it needs clearing up quickly and efficiently and any affected objects – from vehicles to buildings – or people to be speedily decontaminated.
Rapitank fulfils both needs. Rapitank can fully contain any liquid or solid with liquid dynamics, such as granular materials, and can be set up as decontamination zones – even surrounding an office block. Fouled water can be filtered and reused or pumped into tankers for safe disposal.