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While straw erosion control blankets have been the industry standard for decades, in recent years, stronger alternatives like Curlex®—a proprietary curled wood fiber mat made by American Excelsior Company—have gained traction for their natural performance advantages.

Not only do Curlex fibers have a higher Manning’s N (i.e.,…

Mulching is an essential part of erosion control, allowing vegetation to take root and bare soil to resist erosion.

One of the oldest and most widely used forms of mulch is the use of straw to prevent weeds and help plants establish a healthy shape.…

Land clearing is an essential starting point for any construction project, but it is also one of the most environmentally disruptive and expensive parts of the entire project.

Tools like skid steers and bobcats help manage costs and provide greater precision compared to larger excavators, allowing construction managers to properly phase land clearing and minimize their impact.…

To the layman, stormwater management may seem like a simple enough process–how hard is it to stop and control water?

However, when you get down to the physics of stormwater runoff, you soon realize that managing erosive stormwater, especially across a large land mass, can be extremely difficult and technical.…

Erosion control matting has become a popular temporary solution for work zones that have advanced erosion and sedimentation. The two most popular solutions employed by environmental consultants are erosion control blankets (ECBs) and turf reinforcement mats (TRMs).

Thanks to advances in synthetic matting, turf reinforcement mats are capable of providing long-term site stabilization on slopes and surfaces that struggle to establish proper vegetative cover.…

Rarely is a worksite perfectly flat or free of sloping surfaces.

While grading and excavating land can help prevent some forms of sheet and rill erosion surrounding sloped surfaces, these hills often require additional controls to prevent water and wind damage from stripping the topsoil.…

You may have wondered why so many commercial facilities and large properties have retention ponds found at the bottom of slopes or in their backyards.

Beyond being aesthetically pleasing, retention ponds play an important role in commercial and residential stormwater management.…

To laymen, erosion control may seem like a straightforward problem, but it can quickly overwhelm site managers without the right information at their disposal.

Since no worksite is ever completely flat, dealing with gravity and sloping land can make your stormwater management controls a bit more complicated than you anticipated.…

Permanent seeding is an essential component of erosion control on active worksites and can help speed up the process of post-construction cleanup.

There are several seeding techniques available to site managers, ranging from mulching and hydroseeding to laying our sod turf.…

In the field of stormwater management, companies are always trying to reduce the impact of their activities while also limiting the impact of the controls they use.

While stormwater BMPs, such as silt fences, retention basins, and ripraps, are excellent at controlling and diverting runoff, they are also expensive and disruptive to install.…