Mobile Environmental Berm

Abstract

A Mobile Environmental Berm assembly provides an immediately deployable offshore contain and absorb area to stop primary waterborne contaminates before these contaminates spread to secondary and tertiary areas such as shorelines, wetlands or fresh water supplies. Each Mobile Environmental Berm assembly has a plurality of Berm Arms that are made of a strong rigid material where each Berm Arm has a plurality of planar surfaces provided for vertical and/or horizontal close-coupled stacking with other surfaces such as those on other Berm Arms, on relatively horizontal or vertical surfaces or for connection to other accessories. Filter nets attach to the Mobile Environmental Berm assembly to allow for water column filtering below or adjacent to a floating or submerged Mobile Environmental Berm. Filter nets vary in size according to the application for filtering macro-, micro or nanoscopic particles such as oil, chemical or biological contaminates.

1 . A Mobile Environmental Berm assembly comprises
 a plurality of Immediately Deployable Berm Arms are configured using a Contain and Absorb Strategy to create an Offshore Containment and Removal Area where   the Berm Arm is made of a strong rigid material with a plurality of planar surfaces provided for vertical and/or horizontal or other directional close-coupled stacking with other surfaces such as those on other Berm Arms, on relatively horizontal or vertical surfaces or for connection to other accessories where;   a flexible multiple arm containment area of a plurality of Berm Arms is made by joining together multiple Berm Arms using a plurality of mechanical connectors and a plurality of arm stops where the flexible multiple arm containment area is of flexible height, depth, width and configuration shape made by stacking and joining Berm Arms together.   
     
     
         2 . The Mobile Environmental Berm Assembly of  claim 1  where the Berm Arms float. 
     
     
         3 . The Mobile Environmental Berm Assembly of  claim 1  where the Berm Arms are buoyancy compensated to be submersible. 
     
     
         4 . The Mobile Environmental Berm Assembly of  claim 1  where the Berm Arms are nonbuoyant for use as a shoreline barrier. 
     
     
         5 . The Mobile Environmental Berm Assembly of  claim 1  where the Berm Arms have four sides. 
     
     
         6 . The Mobile Environmental Berm Assembly of  claim 1  where the Berm Arms have hexagonal sides for honeycomb type stacking. 
     
     
         7 . The Mobile Environmental Berm assembly of  claim 1  where a plurality of water permeable filter nets attach to the Mobile Environmental Berm assembly where the water permeable filter nets vary in mesh size according to the application for filtering macro-, micro or nanoscopic particles such as oil, waste, invasive species, chemical, and biological contaminates arms where floating, near surface and nonfloating contaminates are absorbed before the contaminates spread to secondary and tertiary areas such as shorelines, wetlands or fresh water supplies.