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In spring 2019 vast areas in eastern Ontario, southern Quebec and New Brunswick experienced exceptional flooding due to a combination of events such as heavy rains, melting snow and sudden temperature increase. Just two years earlier, in 2017, a similar flood affected the same areas along the Ottawa River causing severe infrastructure and private properties damage. Unfortunately, the number of flood-related disasters has been growing in the past years and it does not seem to slow down. For this reason, Canadian public agencies are funding projects to implement long-term flood mitigation measures and flood emergency response plans that include ready-to-use solutions that can be quickly deployed to protect assets and lives. After the 2017-flood, Nicolet, a small town along the St. Lawrence River in the province of Quebec, realized that every year the risk of flooding for certain areas has been increasing due to climate change therefore decided to proactively purchase in advance a product that can be reused.

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