Bioengineering provides a softer
and more acceptable approach when compared to hard engineering
solutions in particular in environmentally sensitive locations.
Replacing block walls, cement, or gabions with sustainable
designs that are softer greener and more natural. The use of
Filtrexx Living WallsTM involves stacking FilterSoxxTM on top of one
another in a recessed bank situation, against the bank, with back fill
media filling in apparent open voids.
The use of Living WallsTM allows the introduction of native vegetation
into the system and allows it to become established before it washes
away.
It is essential that the Living WallTM system includes a good source of
vegetation capable of being established on the banks for a long-term
solution. Although turf grasses are an ideal nursery crop, they
should only be considered as support for more permanent perennial shrub
species. These can be added as seed, bare rooted cuttings, plugs or
stakes.
