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 backfill 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 esential 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.
Michael Hickman 