Question: We have been required by code to build a detention pond for new church buildings in the Webster, TX (Clear Lake) area. There is a serious erosion of soil from water runoff from the building ...

An Ohio farm family uses a novel technique to keep rain from eroding grassed waterways: They cover them with blankets. These are not ordinary blankets, to be sure, but 16'-wide straw blankets ...

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Agricultural engineers have developed the erosion control industry's first cotton hydromulch "spray-on blanket." Hydromulch is the bright-green mulch used in spray-on slurries that cover bare lands at ...