Tips for successful sediment control during construction

Important factors to be considered when selecting a sediment control device.

Performance

1. Ability to filter sediment.
2. Ability of water to pass through easily.
3. Strength of the material.
4. Durability of the materials.

Eco-friendliness

1. Ability to blend with the environment.
2. Ability to biodegrade.
3. Ability to reuse.

Cost effectiveness

1. Material and installation costs.
2. Removal and disposal costs, if necessary.
3. Reconstruction costs.

Biodegradable coir products are eco-friendly and provide excellent solution for successful sediment control during construction.

Understand facts, use common sense approaches for successful sediment control.

 

Silt Fences

Purpose of a silt fence is to filter sediment from runoff water while allowing water to go through it. Excess water accumulation during stormy weather conditions create more problems.

Poor sediment control measures results in excess sediment loading to creeks and streams. These sediment deposition destroys the bottom feeding organisms and the entire food chain.

**Be-aware ! Check the water permeability of silt fence fabric.**

Simple test -Check whether light can go through.

Extensive use of the impermeable silt fence fabric has created irreversible damage to our environment. There is a widely used silt fence fabric that has very low water permeability. Not even light will go through the fabric.

 

Catch basin sediment control with synthetic materials

 

These synthetic materials are not only getting the job done incorrectly, but also they create trash which need to be removed and hauled to landfills. These poor BMP's increase the cost of sediment control and contribute to the destruction of our environment.

Synthetic rock bags break very easily. They cannot stand heavy equipment.

 

Used silt fences are not an effective filtering medium. Water cannot go through them. No filtering, water with sediment will go through the open area.

 

Silt fence fabrics will not work effectively

 

These cannot stand heavy equipment. Volume goes down very easily. Will not filter sediment.

 

It is our environment, do the right thing ! Use effective biodegradable coir sediment control products.

** Always remember **

Failures not only cost reconstruction, but also create extremely expensive and irreversible damage to aquatic life in lakes and streams.

Use RoLanka coir products for successful erosion control & sediment control! The choice of the professional who care about our environment.