Beluga™ Concertina Flood Prevention System
The Beluga™ Bag barrier is a unique flood control system that is ideal for protection of important property and infrastructure.
Beluga is a concertina style, big bag, flood barrier consisting of a heavy duty oversized bag, divided into 5 distinct chambers. Use sand or other aggregate or fill material to fill bags and to create a heavy duty levee to hold back water.
Beluga bags ship flattened on pallets, ready to be opened, positioned and filled on site. Each bag is 15ft long, 3ft deep, and 40” high and replaces approximately 750 standard sandbags. Because there’s no wasted space, Beluga Barriers use roughly 1/2 the amount of sand required for an equivalent sandbag barrier and significantly less labor to position and fill.
Beluga bag barriers can be installed and filled by a relatively small crew and deployed quickly in advance of an expected flood.
Ships Flat
Conveniently shipped flat on pallets for easy transport to flood sites.
Sand Filled
Filled with sand, gravel, cement or any applicable fill material.
Protection Height
Achieve 40” of heavy duty flood protection height when filled.
Protect What Matters Most
Beluga™ delivers heavy-duty, large-scale flood protection through an efficient, multi-chamber barrier design. Engineered as a concertina-style oversized bag, each 15-foot unit forms a reinforced levee when filled with sand or aggregate, replacing up to 750 traditional sandbags while using significantly less material and labor. Shipped flat for easy transport and rapid on-site deployment, Beluga™ enables smaller crews to build substantial perimeter defenses quickly and effectively. Designed for critical property and infrastructure protection, it offers scalable, high-capacity flood mitigation when serious coverage is required.
Application
Beluga™ big bag flood protection barriers can rapidly deploy against major flooding events. Beluga FIBC bags can be used for a variety of applications and can help in the protection of municipal buildings, homes, entire neighborhoods, infrastructure and more. Use Beluga bags along riverfront paths, lakefronts, oceanfront sea walls, on bays, around a building or facility and anywhere floods can occur. Beluga Bags are exceptionally effective for the following uses:
Water Diversion
Use Beluga barriers to divert water away from sensitive infrastructure and to protect property from rising flood waters
Sewer Drain Sealing
Place oversized Beluga bags on top of sewer drains and outlets to prevent sewage back flow from sewer back ups or rising flood water levels.
Cofferdams
Keep water contained in a particular area by blocking its flow and preventing its migration to other areas.
Levee Heightening
Reinforce and heighten levees by adding Beluga barriers on top of existing levees. Fill gaps in the levee or repair breaches.
Coastal Erosion
Use Beluga bags, filled with sand or cement, to protect against coastal erosion. Efficiently deploy bags, without extensive site prep. Reinforce waterfronts, river fronts, and other erosion prone areas.
Storm Surge Protection
Beluga stands up against heavy storm surges. The bag’s heavy fill and 40” protection height keeps Beluga Bags in place and stops flood waters in its tracks.
Replaces 750 Sandbags
A 5 chamber Beluga bag replaces nearly 750 sandbags, while also taking nearly 1/40th the labor hours to deploy. Simply position, open, and fill.
Performance Advantages
Withstands Heavy Flooding
Beluga Bags are designed to withstand heavy flooding, storm surges and can be used for cofferdams. Once filled with sand, Beluga weighs 13,150lbs.
Uses 50% less Sand
Because sand is contained in chambers, it is possible to achieve higher heights of protection with 50% less sand. Typical sandbags must be stacked with a wider base relative to height, but Beluga bags stand tall relative to base width.
How the Beluga™ Concertina Flood Prevention System Works?
Speed of Deployment
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Designed for easy deployment by unskilled labor
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Each complete 5 chamber Beluga weighs only 50lbs
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With proper filling equipment and 2 persons, expect to install a 100ft berm in approximately 2.5 hours.
Bag Capacity
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Bags have a capacity of 30 cubic feet of sand per section x 5 sections = 150 cubic feet of sand per 5 compartment bag
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4,500lbs (Safe Working Load) per chamber
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22,500lbs (Safe Working Load) per 5 chamber system
Damming Ability
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A single layer of Beluga Bags can withstand 3ft of water.
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Stack multiple bags to create up to a 9ft high barrier (Engineer sign-off required for stacking).
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Ground conforming design will contour to the surface below
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Use on concrete, asphalt, sand, grass, mud and more
Material
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5.6oz, coated (impermeable) polypropylene fabric on 1 side and an uncoated 5.0 oz (water permeable) fabric on the other sides (allowing slow water drainage)
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100% Polypropylene, RIC Code 5, SPI Code PP
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2200 Hour UV Protection
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NAICS Code: 314910
Beluga™ Concertina Flood Prevention System Resources and Guide
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