STA 5+00 · EROSION CONTROL
Silt sock, seeding, mulching and matting, installed by a certified Filtrexx installer, so disturbed ground stays where you left it.
Every cleared slope, pad and ditch sheds soil the first time it storms. Soil that leaves the site clogs culverts, muddies streams and ends up in a neighbor's yard, and it is the first thing regulators and neighbors notice.
Erosion control keeps the soil in place. Sediment control catches whatever moves anyway. You need both, because one without the other fails on the first big storm.
We are a certified Filtrexx installer of the silt sock sediment containment system. Silt sock is a mesh tube packed with filter media that lies against the ground and follows its contours. We use it to capture and secure sediment at the toe of a slope, along a ditch line and around a pad.
Straw bales break down and leave gaps at the ends. Loose fence slumps on a slope once it fills. A sock sits tight to the ground, slows the water and lets the sediment settle out behind it.
Barriers only buy time. Permanent control is grass on the ground, and that takes seeding, mulching, and matting. Mulch protects the seed from rain and sun, and matting holds seed and soil on steep slopes and in channels until the roots take over.
The same crews that clear and grade your site put the controls in as the ground is opened. A site that stays clean means no rebuilding washed-out slopes and no silt cleanup after the work is done.
Riprap-lined drainage channel with silt fence along the slope
Erosion and sedimentation control from the same crews that clear and grade the site, working out of Connellsville since 1971.