Highway Bioengineering: Wattles and Live Reinforced Earth Walls

Shows wattle fences supporting organic soils at Bowker Creek and live reinforced earth walls used to reinforce slopes and fill gullies, with observations from 2005 to 2007.

2:24 · 13 slides · Historical presentation · No recorded narration

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Source: Segment Highway Bioengineering. Slides by David Polster; individual image and diagram credits remain in the presentation. This video includes the complete supplied deck. It is an archive slideshow, not a recording of the spoken conference session.

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  1. Wattle fences used to support organic soils

  2. Bowker Creek at McRae
    April 13, 2005
    Constructed Spring of 2004
    Constructed Fall of 2004

  3. Flow fluctuations, small stream
    March 29, 2005

  4. August 4, 2005

  5. September 8, 2006

  6. March 15, 2007

  7. May 4, 2007

  8. Live reinforced earth walls (LaREWs)

  9. LaREW

  10. LaREW – Cuttings going into slope prevent circular failures

  11. Live reinforced earth walls (LaREWs)

  12. LaREWs growing

  13. LaREWs used for gully filling

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