Wed March 24, 2010
Finn Offers Line of Premium Mulches for Erosion Control, Hydroseeding Applications
Finn Corporation’s TRU-Mulch line consists of six mulches specially designed to meet the demands of various erosion control and hydroseeding projects. The wood fibers used throughout the line originate from virgin poplar and pine wood chips from forests of the eastern United States....
Erik Pisor - Fri February 19, 2010
El Niño, Erosion Cause Major Road Washouts
For Southern California counties the periodic, yet unpredictable, arrival of the El Niño climate pattern equates to winter and spring rainfall totals that are significantly higher than historical averages for that region....
David Recht - Mon April 16, 2007
TXDOT’s New Braunfels Project an Environmental Success for I-35
Hunter Industries was the general contractor for the recently completed I-35 improvements to the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) on-system interstate reconstruction through New Braunfels, Texas....
Tue April 10, 2007
R.C. Hawkins Uses Compact Fleet for Erosion Control
Looking to take control of more business? The erosioncontrol market just might be your ticket. Under the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Phase II requirements, which protect water quality from the impact of construction activities, property owners are required to install erosion and storm-water controls such as drainage grading, check dams, silt fences and vegetative buffers....
Wed February 15, 2006
Funding Received for Oyster Reef to Combat Coastal Erosion
LAFAYETTE, LA (AP) Officials with the Louisiana Wetlands Association said they have received the first installment of a $69,000 grant for the construction of an oyster reef in Vermilion Bay and expect to begin to move forward with the project by the end of January....
Brett Martel - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wed October 26, 2005
Engineers: Some Levee Failures Caused by Soil Erosion
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Much of the city flooded not because water rushed over the tops of levees, but because two of the storm barriers that ring New Orleans actually shifted and then collapsed, a team of independent engineers said....
Wed October 26, 2005
Officials Seek Permit to Save Golf Course From Beach Erosion
KIAWAH ISLAND, SC (AP) Kiawah Island officials are seeking a permit to pour sand on the beach to help protect a green and fairway at the Ocean Course, the site of the 2012 PGA Championship. The 18th green on the course was moved closer to the water as part of a $2.5-million course overhaul three years ago....
Jeff Cronin - Mon September 26, 2005
Hurricane Ophelia Eats Away at A1A Embankment
David Snowden said he’s gotten lucky over the years when it comes to a 2-mi. stretch of Route A1A in Flagler Beach, FL. The maintenance field operations manager of the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has had to battle beach erosion along this stretch of two-lane highway for more than 20 years....
Wed July 20, 2005
Erosion Control Measures Questioned at 1,700-Acre Development in Georgia
FORSYTH, GA (AP) A subdivision being built in north Monroe County is causing serious erosion into a local river, one of the worst cases state environmental officials said they’ve seen. Construction at the River Forest subdivision, a 1,700-acre development, is dumping large amounts of red clay into the Little Towaliga River, said Johnny Henson, a senior environmental specialist with the Georgia Environmental Protection Division....
Jeff Cronin - Wed March 16, 2005
New Erosion Control Standards Escalate Route 20 Project Costs
Controlling erosion at the work site along state Route 20 (Hawthorne Road) in Alachua County, FL, has added a weekly task to an already busy project for Russell Engineering of Ft. Lauderdale. Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Spokesman Chip Skinner said new regulations have created a “zero tolerance” policy for off-site discharge in FDOT’s District 2....
