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Friday, March 18, 2011

Erosion

Every winter there is considerable erosion on the clay courts near the catch basins. Last fall we tryed an experiment. We put some geotextile fabric down around the drains. The idea was to slow the water down, but still allow it to flow into the drains. Hopefully the fabric would also block clay from entering. The test was only for one season and we had a lot of snow, but it worked. The picture right below is from 2010, when we had a great deal of erosion. The two other pictures show the geotextile set-up and how it worked in 2011.





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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

obviously charlie must have objected to this geotextile experiment?? Now how is he going to convince neil to clean catch basins for a week?

March 19, 2011 at 6:56 PM
John G. said...

Perhaps you could help the people in Wellfleet and Orleans.

What if one wrapped this stuff around one's head - would it stop erosion there as well?

March 27, 2011 at 10:18 AM

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