The present invention relates to a method for protecting the ecology of a coastal mudflat and a system used in the method. The method includes the following steps: plan and design a pond project according to the specific conditions of the target coastal mudflat to be protected; dig a trench and build a dike in the surface of the target coastal mudflat and enclose the dike to form at least one pond, wherein the trench in the pond is adjacent to the surface of the mudflat to form the pond with a large water surface, a shallow water layer and a seasonal open waterfront; and cultivate an aquatic product in the trench, with or without an emergent aquatic plant planted in the surface of the mudflat.

Disclosed is an embanking arrangement for separating and protecting a first water volume from a second water volume, including a barrier connected to land and having an opening, a stationary basis extending across the opening, and a mobile port arrangement including a hull delimiting an inner tank. The embanking arrangement takes closed and open states respectively, wherein the inner tank of the port arrangement is at least partly filled with water and the hull of the port arrangement is standing on the basis when the embanking arrangement is in the closed state. The port arrangement is floating in the open state. The port arrangement includes at least a first opening connecting the inner tank and the first water volume, and including a controllable valve, and a pump connected with the second water volume to transport water from the first water volume to the second water volume.

The present disclosure relates to a method of using a feedback loop from sensors to manipulate sea waves by applying concepts from optics interference and lensing. The method includes capturing, by one or more sensors, environmental data of an aquatic environment, wherein the environmental data relates to one or more of a wind speed, a wind direction, a wave pattern, a wave spectra, and a wave direction. The method includes analyzing, by one or more processors of a controller, the environmental data to identify a sensed environmental condition. Further, the method includes determining an optimal configuration of a wave interference device in the sensed environmental condition, wherein the controller is communicatively coupled to the wave interference device; and configuring the wave interference device to occupy the optimal configuration.

A flood water retention assembly for reducing flood damage includes a plurality of repositories that is each positioned proximate a lowland area prone to flooding. A plurality of drain conduits is each fluidly coupled to a respective one of the repositories. Each of the drain conduits is in fluid communication with a drainage area to drain the water into the drainage area. A plurality of inlet conduits is each fluidly coupled to a respective one of the repositories. Each of the inlet conduits is in fluid communication with a body of water to receive water from the body of water. A pump is fluidly coupled to each of the inlet conduits and the pump is positioned adjacent to the body of water. The pump pumps the water into the repositories when the pump is turned on. In this way the repositories contain flood waters thereby reducing flood damage to surrounding areas.

To provide a portable device capable of capturing a flow of water from a stream, storm drain or runoff channel, on command and send that captured water into a pipe system, while allowing remote adjustment of the capture and flow rates out of the cube device, the stormwater syphon cube includes a rock grate to prevent stormwater borne objects from entering the device, and an exit valve adjustable via cable control, a side extraction valve adjustable via cable control to adjust the water flow into the extraction pipe, and extraction pipe attached to the cube to carry extracted water away to storage. The sealed exit pipe acts as a syphon drawing water out of the cube.

A method for the prevention or remediation of flooding waters in a geographic area using one or more thrusters to increase the velocity of a portion of the water in a channel draining the flooding waters away from the geographic area, mixing the portion of the accelerated waters back in to the remainder of the waters in the channel thereby increasing the average velocity of the waters in the drainage system and increasing the rate of removal of the flooding waters from the geographic area, the thrusters having the one or more inlets approximately at ninety degrees from the centerline of the thruster and cleaning the thruster inlets by reversing the flow through the thruster while the flooding waters are still passing the thruster.

To provide a portable device capable of capturing a flow of water from a stream, storm drain or runoff channel, on command and send that captured water into a pipe system, while allowing remote adjustment of the capture and flow rates out of the cube device, the stormwater syphon cube includes a rock grate to prevent stormwater borne objects from entering the device, and an exit valve adjustable via cable control, a side extraction valve adjustable via cable control to adjust the water flow into the extraction pipe, and extraction pipe attached to the cube to carry extracted water away to storage. The sealed exit pipe acts as a syphon drawing water out of the cube.

A water supply control system is disclosed that comprises a computer-implemented control system coupled to a plurality of gates, one or more pumps, and a plurality of sensors. The computer-implemented control system is configured to receive a request to transfer excess water from a non-water supply lake to a water supply lake and determine, based at least in part on data from the plurality of sensors and geographic locations of the non-water supply lake and the water supply lake, whether transferring water as requested will cause or worsen a flood event. In response to a determination that transferring water as requested will not cause or worsen a flood event, the computer-implemented control system is further configured to issue a command to cause a gate associated with a dam at the non-water supply lake to open such that water is transferred from the non-water supply lake to the water supply lake.

A device comprising a corkscrew; a substantially flexible shaft operably attached to the corkscrew at a first end of the shaft; and one or more protrusions extending from the shaft between the first end of the shaft and a second end of the shaft. Methods of using the device are also disclosed.

A device comprising a corkscrew; a substantially flexible shaft operably attached to the corkscrew at a first end of the shaft; and one or more protrusions extending from the shaft between the first end of the shaft and a second end of the shaft. Methods of using the device are also disclosed.