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ODINFloat - Spillway and Tailrace Boom – Boater Safety Barriers
Designing floating booms for use below dams in spillways and hydroelectric tailrace areas requires specialized knowledge that only comes with experience. Our first tailrace boom was installed in 1998 in Eastern Ontario. Since that humble start, we have combined detailed engineering and Flow-3D modeling with actual field observations of our tailrace booms and spillway boat barriers. The result are today’s ODINFloat, the most rugged, and durable floating barrier for the toughest challenges. You won’t find a more durable tailrace float and spillway barrier than the Worthington designed ODINFloat and here’s why.
ODINFloat® HDPE combines the most advanced material technology with Worthington’s 25+ years designing tailrace and spillway barriers to provide dam safety engineers the most reliable solution for floating boat barriers above floodgates, below open spillgates and in the tailraces of hydroelectric power plants.
ODINFloat features include:
- Long-term durability with a 50-year pontoon service life.
- Exceptional impact resistance.
- Smooth, non-stick, chemically resistant surface.
- UV Stabilized.
- Water-tight design.
- Corrosion free.
- Resistant to -140F
- Internal EPS foam fill
- Thick-walled design
- Will never require touch up surface treatments
- Patented self-rotating design.
- Available in multiple diameter/length configurations.
Offered in standard diameters of 610mm, 900mm and in special cases up to 1.2m and in lengths up to 12m.
ODINFloat® floating barriers are designed with safety in mind. Whether you install these above a dam in the headpond or below in tailrace or spillways, the intent is to keep boaters, fisherman, kayakers, and other intruders outside of designated or dangerous flow areas.
ODINFloat® is designed to be visible and above water in high-flow turbulent conditions where smaller booms less than 50cm in diameter quickly submerge below the water in flows as low as 0.5m/sec.
- Material: ASTM D3350, HDPE (PE44544 C/E)
- Process: Co-Extrusion
- Color: Yellow per FS13655
- Yield Strength (min): 63,052 kgs (139 kips)
- Ultimate Strength (min): 108,415 kgs (239 kips)