WASTOP RESIDENTIAL & SURFACE FLOODING PREVENTED IN TODMORDEN, ENGLAND Location: Todmorden, United Kingdom Customer: VolkerStevin PROBLEM: Todmorden is a town with a long history of ooding from the River Calder and Walsden Water. Previous oods here have damaged infrastructure and disrupted important transport routes as well as risking the safety of the local population. The £13 million (USD $18 million) third phase of the ood alleviation scheme is improving ood defences alongside Walsden Water. WaStop WaStop SOLUTION: For this particular project, WaStop non-return valves were installed into pipes within culverts, preventing ooding in urban areas. The majority of these non-return valves are
tted inside a ood relief tunnel and are used to protect the drains leading to it. Thus,

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