THURSDAY APR 09, 4PM EDT
This one-hour webinar will cover compost applications as a preeminent erosion control soil cover, compost berms, and compost filter socks including Filtrexx SiltSoxx and GroSoxx. Learn from real-world projects:
- See How 300T of City of Redding Greenwaste Compost, Mychorrizae, and Biosol and CA native grasses applied over a 10 acre Burn Dump , filled with annual weeds and star thistle became a native grassland. Still successful after 17 years
- See how Compost Blanket (again Redding Greenwaste Certified Compost) applied to a 1:1 slope at Shasta College experienced a 8” in 4 hr storm (4” in one hr) and didn’t erode!!
- See Compost Blankets and Compost Socks “Living Walls” were successfully applied near Auckland New Zealand – 8000 feet of bank protection with Environmentally-Sensitive Methods, e.g. Log Lunkers, Newbury Riffles, Naturalized Morphology and Living Walls. Still successful after 10 years.
- Compost blankets and Socks and Berms applied in Canadian Rockies , still successful after 14 years.
- Discuss Carbon Sequestration while reducing wild fires on a huge scale, all that lacking is resolve and slight paradigm shifts
Presented by: John McCullah, Salix Applied Earthcare, LLC
Filtrexx offers FREE webinars, including a series on how compost-based Best Management Practices (BMPs) can dramatically reduce sediment and targeted, invisible pollutants in stormwater runoff, as well as a series on the topic of living walls. Attend a live broadcast and earn a Certificate of Attendance worth 1.0 Professional Development Hour (PDH) credit. View the calendar below to attend a live broadcast or view the full descriptions, videos and download slides of selected webinars accessible anytime, anywhere for FREE.