Barbara and Terry Kane

I am writing to thank you for saving the Chenango Commons building and the businesses it houses during a recent flood of the Chenango River. Chenango Commons is located on a nine-hole executive golf course on the banks of the Chenango River. When we purchased the property 6 years ago we were told the area last flooded in 1976. We have now flooded 3 times in the last 3 years. The first two floods were lessons in perseverance. We sand bagged, caulked, pumped and sucked as fast as we could and still we sustained damages in excess of $180,000. After the second flood we were dropped by our flood insurance carrier, we had to find a way to protect our building from future flooding. Whatever the solution was it had to be able to be deployed by a small crew, be temporary, affordable and reusable. It also had to be fool proof given that we no longer had the protection of insurance. We found AquaDam. We took delivery in November 2005 of a 36” AquaDam. Herb came up from New Jersey to instruct us in its deployment. Due to a long cold winter and dry spring, we never got the opportunity to actually set the Dam up. When the rains began and flooding was imminent we set the Dam up as Herb instructed. We also used the easy to follow Users Guide as a reference. We were able to deploy the AquaDam® with 4 people in 3 ½ hours. I estimate the set up time to be half of that in the future, given our experience. The dam had to replace a crew of 20 who in the past worked in vain to minimize damage to the building. We could not afford to fail. The AquaDam® performed superbly. Using the dam in a horseshoe shape around the building with a pump at each corner we kept the building completely dry. Several Counties were declared a state of emergency, 500 homes were totally lost displacing thousands of homeowners. Hundreds of businesses were flooded with an estimated regional loss in excess of $175,000,000. Clean up is expected to last 6 months to a year. Thanks to the AquaDam, Chenango Commons withstood the flood and opened for business the following day. Your product is so simple and worked as well as you said it would. It was simple to deploy, it was dismantled in less than two hours repacked and stored for future use. Thanks to AquaDam® we survived the flood of 2006.