PIG Water Barrier – 3” W x 10’ L Reusable Water-Filled Barrier - PM50793

This thing is great! We have 240 feet of uphill driveway. When it rains, all the water from the cul de sac street side, and from my left side neighbor’s yard all comes flooding down to my driveway and then to my 6 inch french drain across the front of my 3.5 car garage. When we get frog stranglers, it would back up to where it came under the doors, and we would have to be out there bailing to keep from flooding. (disadvantage of living in a hilly neighborhood.) Took a chance and ordered “the pig” in the 20 foot size. It goes nicely in a diagonal across the driveway and diverts water off to the left side (see pic) into a swale that then carries it downhill past the house. Works like a champ! When we get ready to go somewhere, it is no problem to grab the upper end and swing it back parallel to the side of the driveway. Then redeploy when it looks like it will storm enough to need it. Some people complained that their normal garden hose would not screw onto it for filling. No problem. Go to the big box store and buy a replacement barbed female hose end and a short piece of hose and voila! you’ve made an adapter to easily insert in the mouth of the pig and fill, then cap it off. If you have a similar need to divert water, give it a try.

I have a standard hose but it does not thread into the plug of this inflatable bag. I have a small nozzle I could have put on the hose but I didn't want to stand there and hold it until the bag filled. Good idea, but not functional.

The way I use it is not typical, but it works! I live in Vegas. It gets very windy here. We can get winds over 50 mph. Those kinds of winds work its way under the pool cover and blows it off no matter how many weights I use around the edge. If I tie it down the wind rips the ties right off damaging the bubble cover. This is a perfect solution. I don’t fill it all the way to allow for potential freezing just in case and so I can keep it near the edge so I can easily reach it to remove it before removing the cover. It works! In a super windy day the cover stayed perfectly down protecting the pool. If the wind blows the cover off I lose all the heat and the pool fills with leaves, dirt and pollen from the wind storm. It takes a long time to clean all that out of the water. This keeps the cover on the pool saving me money in heating costs and saving me time in cleaning. I’m so happy to finally find this solution.

It’s great we use it for reclaim for power washing