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White Cart Water FPS Home > Kirkland Hydrobrake Installation
Installation of the Hydro-Brake Flow Control
THE WORLD'S largest ever Hydro-Brake® Flow Control devices have been installed as part of the White Cart Water Flood Prevention scheme. During peak storms, the Hydro-Brake® Flow Controls will hold back the White Cart Water and its tributaries the Earn Water and Kittoch Water causing the storage areas to fill. Water will be released downstream at a controlled rate so that it does not overspill new flood defences being constructed in the City.
Upstream, a total of 90,000 sq metres of rich and diverse wetland habitats will be created. Downstream, the flow of water will be reduced by up to 45% during peak storms, achieving flood protection to a 1 in 200 year standard or a 0.5% probability of a flood occurring in any one year, when combined with the new flood defences.
In size, the Hydro-Brake® Flow Controls eclipse the 3.5 m high Hydro-Brake® Flow Control at Weedon Dam, previously Hydro's largest installation, which has been serving a similar purpose in protecting the village of Weedon Bec in Northamptonshire since 2002.