Introducing FbBag™: The most significant breakthrough in flood response in over 200 years. FbBag™ makes the old sandbag process obsolete. FbBags™ are lightweight, require no sand and are easy to deploy.

  • Transport
  • Transport sandbags and sand to the flood site: 3.5 million bags and 125 million pounds of sand.
  • Transport
  • Transport FbBags™ to flood site
    (1 pound each)

TOTAL TRUCKLOADS: 4,600

TOTAL TRUCKLOADS: 160

  • Deployment
  • Fill and stack sandbags
  • Sandbags filled 3 miles from flood site
  • Transport 35-40 lb bags from fill site
    to flood site
  • Stack the 35-40 lb bags
  • Freezing temperatures made the bags
    rigid, difficult to handle and stack
  • Deployment
  • Direct stacking, no filling
  • Deliver FbBags™ directly
    to flood site
  • Stack 1 lb FbBags™ at flood site
  • Light weight and uniform size makes
    the FbBag™ easy to stack

TOTAL DURATION: 10 days

TOTAL DURATION: 2 days

  • Clean up
  • Remove saturated sandbags, over 125
    million pounds of wet sand
  • 3.5 million sandbags dumped in landfill
    after absorbing toxic water
  • Silt that leached from sandbags
    contaminated, streets, sidewalks,
    buildings and homes
  • Clean up
  • FbBags™ are designed to trap
    contaminants and release only
    potable water
  • Removal of FbBags™ (1 lb each)
  • No disposal, FbBags™ are
    bio-degradable and can be recycled
  • No dirty, messy clean-up

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: Severe

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: Minor

FbBags™ provide peace-of-mind because the unique FbBag™ design provides superior flood protection and eliminates the toxic waste problem of contaminated sandbags after a flood.

That means faster, simpler cleanup that is better for the environment.

Torrential rain, a major river cresting 40 feet over its banks and freezing temperatures paralyze the city. Every conceivable resource is tapped to move millions of pounds of sandbags into position. The disaster was not over when the water receded. What was left: a toxic waste site with millions of contaminated sandbags.

Fb Systems, LLC. is a company dedicated to protecting people, property, business and the environment through environmental products and innovative thinking.