BoatBuster - Floating Safety Barrier for Hydroelectric Spillways and Tailraces
The waters below spillways and in hydroelectric powerplant tailraces are no places for boaters. When water is spilling, the aerated effect swamps boats. Boils zones literally pull boats upstream and suck them in. Boats are unable to escape these areas resulting in injury and drownings. Risk managers need an effective floating safety boat barrier to prevent access to these danger zones. BoatBuster was made specifically for use in these spillway and tailrace areas. The highly visible, barrel style design includes an engineered internal steel axle that withstands tough operating conditions. For headpond and run of river locations where a floating boat barrier is desired but with minimal debris retention capabilities, the BoatBuster boat barrier is a smart solution.
BOATBUSTER® Public Safety Boat Barriers come in 3 sizes; big and really big. These barrel style floats are designed for the tough operating conditions below spillways and flood gates, below hydroelectric dams in tailrace locations and above dams on rivers where high flows are encountered.
Unlike typical barrel floats, BoatBuster’s unique half-shell design allows these floats to be used as standalone units or in multiple configuration for vertical mooring buoys or as accessory floats for larger floating debris skimmers, fish guidance systems, and walkway barriers.
- Shackle-Free Connections (no more shackle failures!)
- Alloy chain interconnections.
- Heavy-wall impact resistant polyethylene with max. UV resistance.
- Unsinkable solid internal core of non-water absorbing foam fill. Maintains buoyancy even when punctured.
- High load bearing internal steel member provides strength and ballast, resists horizontal and vertical loads.
- 15 to 20-year design life.
- Fusion Permanent Graphics™ with standard or customized warnings.
- Standard Color: Safety Yellow. Also available in International Orange, Log Boom Brown, Forest Green, and others.
- High Visibility, high buoyancy for maximum freeboard visibility.
- Part No.: BB3648
- Diameter: 91.4cm (36.4in)
- Length: 122cm (48in)
- Weight (dry): 102 kgs (225lbs)
- Buoyancy: 680kgs (1500lbs)
- Freeboard: 73cm (29in)
- Design Strength: 74,000kgs (163kips)
- Internal Construction: 101mm (4in) steel tube
- EPS Foam Fill
- Wall Thickness (nom): 6mm (0.250in)
- Material: LLDPE
- Color: FS13655 Yellow