Patent Application
20210372065
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The disclosure relates to flood mitigation devices and more particularly pertains to a new flood mitigation device for inhibiting king tide flood waters from flooding through a well head.
The prior art relates to flood mitigation devices including a flood control pump that is positioned within a building to inhibit a sewer from backing up into the building. The prior art also discloses a buried fluid conduit that has lateral openings to facilitate flood water to drain into a leach field. The prior art also discloses a fluid pump that is fluidly coupled to a well head for moving surface level flood waters into a deep level aquifer. Additionally, the prior art discloses a pit-less water removal assembly for removing water adjacent to a foundation of a building.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a riser is attachable to a well head located in a coastal area. The riser extends at least 5.0 feet above ground to elevate the entry into the well head high enough to inhibit king tide flood waters from pouring outwardly from the well head. In this way the riser can mitigate king tide flood waters. A discharge pipe is fluidly coupled to the riser and the discharge pipe is in fluid communication with a sump pump. In this way the discharge pipe directs water from the sump pump into the well head. A breather tube is fluid coupled to the riser for purging air from the riser when the water level rises in the riser.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The riser 12 has a bottom end 18, a top end 20 and an outer wall 22 extending therebetween. The outer wall 22 has a ring 24 extending outwardly therefrom, and the ring 24 is oriented adjacent to and is coextensive with the top end 20. The bottom end 18 engages the well head 14 having the riser 12 extending along a vertical axis. In this way the top end 20 defines the entry into the well head 14.
A lid 26 is removably attached to the riser 12 for closing the riser 12. The lid 26 has a top surface 28 and a bottom surface 30, and the bottom surface 30 rests on the top end 20. A plurality of fasteners 32 is provided and each of the fasteners 32 extends through the lid 26 and engages the ring 24 for attaching the lid 26 to the riser 12. A discharge pipe 34 is provided that is fluidly coupled to the riser 12. The discharge pipe 34 is in fluid communication with a sump pump 36 to direct water from the sump pump 36 into the well head 14. The sump pump 36 may be a submersible sump pump that is located in a low lying area that is prone to flooding.
The discharge pipe 34 extends through the top surface 28 and the bottom surface 30 of the lid 26 such that the discharge pipe 34 is in fluid communication with an interior of the riser 12. The discharge pipe 34 has a distal end 38 with respect to the riser 12 and the distal end 38 is fluidly coupled to an outlet 40 of the sump pump 36. A breather tube 42 is fluid coupled to the riser 12 for purging air from the riser 12 when the water level rises in the riser 12. The breather tube 42 extends through the top surface 28 and the bottom surface 30 of the lid 26 such that the breather tube 42 is in fluid communication with the interior of the riser 12. In this way the breather tube 42 passes air outwardly therefrom when the discharge pipe 34 passes water into the riser 12. Additionally, the breather tube 42 curves downwardly to inhibit precipitation from entering the breather tube 42. Each of the discharge pipe 34 and the breather tube 42 may have a diameter of at least 3.0 inches, and the riser may have a diameter of at least 24.0 inches.
In use, riser 12 is attached to the well head 14 in order to elevate the entry of the well head 14 to a point that king tide flood waters 16 do not escape the well head 14 and subsequently flood the low lying area. In this way the riser 12 can mitigate flooding of residential streets and other areas that are commonly flooded by storm drain overflow. Additionally, the discharge pipe 34 facilitates any sump pumps that are positioned proximate the riser 12 to feed water into the riser 12. In this way any flood waters in the low lying area can be fed into the well head 14 for draining into the municipal storm drainage system.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
