WASTOP ® WASTOP PREVENTS FLOODING ON MERITT ISLAND Location: Merritt Island, USA Customer: Brevard County PROBLEM: Brevard County converted two borrow pits into retention ponds for polluted stormwater collected from the Pine Island Canal. This waterway collects stormwater from a 5,970 acre drainage basin, including citrus groves and agricultural land, and deposits it into the Indian River. A method for allowing water to ow from the canal to the converted borrow pits and to prevent backow from the borrow pits into the canal. SOLUTION: This drainage solution has been designed to prevent ooding across more than nine square miles of north Merritt Island, stretching from the Kennedy Space Center to Crisafulli Road. Excavators have converted two borrow pits into retention ponds for pollut

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