Why Silt Fences Are Essential for Construction Site Runoff Control
Construction, necessary as it must remain to support infrastructure expansion and economic progress, cannot help but encroach upon nature. Clear-cutting and digging into the earth leave soil vulnerable to rain and run-off water's erosive pressures. This produces run-off with suspended load in the earth or sediment, and other possible impurities from the construction site. When this run-off sediment is not well controlled, it causes catastrophic effects on receiving water bodies, to silt, degrading the quality of water, and also kills aquatic life. Silt fences, though being uncomplicated in design since they look, are a law-abiding agent and used most extensively in prevention of this environmental destruction, as a first line of defense in an attempt to manage construction site sediment run-off. Physics of Silt Control: How Silt Fences Perform Silt fence is a filter cloth draped over staking and set in the ground. Its simplest purpose is to capture the sediment-carrying runoff and ...