WASTOP ® CITY OF HAMILTON PROTECTED FROM STORM SURGE FLOODING Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Customer: City of Hamilton PROBLEM: The City of Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. The City of Hamilton is the 10th largest municipality in Canada and is situated at the west end of Lake Ontario. Flooding has been a problem in some pockets of Hamilton, partly due to rain and snow melt, but also due to high lake levels and storm surges. One location suffered from rocks entering and
lling up a chamber which then blocked the stormwater from owing out through the chamber into the lake. The chamber needed to have the function of a non-return valve to ensure that high lake levels were kept from backowing up the stormwater pipe and onto the residential properties in the

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