Grants Help Finance Use of New Device
to Remove Floating Debris From Storm Water


The boom is attached to a sliding mechanism on the post, allowing it to rise and fall with the tide, which could change as much as 8 feet during its cycle. The boom is stretched across the creek to the downstream side on a 45-degree angle where the collection basket is set.

The 8 x 10-foot galvanized steel collection basket is set within a large galvanized steel framework which is suspended from foam-filled floats. These, too, rise and fall with the tide on four galvanized steel posts, 20-feet long and driven into the creek bed.

The open mesh basket has a water level capacity of just under 3 cubic yards and is designed to be set immediately adjacent to the downstream bank.

The offset stream channel, which has its deepest cross section near the westerly shoreline, necessitated a field modification to the device. The device was set away from the westerly bank of the creek and a short section of boom was installed from the basket to the downstream shoreline, thus providing a V-shaped collection area rather than the original straight-line configuration of the boom. An additional anchor post was set upstream from the collection basket so that in the event of heavy weather, which could damage the device, the boom could be removed easily and quickly from across the waterway.

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