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Eagle Scout Project (retention pond restoration)

Product:  Straw Blanket

 
City:  Knoxville, Tennessee

 
Application:  Erosion Control

 
Install Date:  2004

 
Install Size:  200 yd˛

 
Address:  Catholic High School in West Knoxville off of Fox Lonas Road.

 
Client:  Hamilton Gubanc

 
Architect:  N/A

 
Contractor:  Hamilton Gubanc

 
Directions:  N/A

 
Location:  Located at the first entrance to Catholic High School off of Fox Lonas Road.

 
Photography:  Michael Barto, Vice President, East Tennessee Geosynthetics.

 
Summary:  With help from fellow scouts and volunteers, Hamilton Gubanc restored a retention basin for his Eagle Scout Project.  Located in West Knoxville at the entrance to Catholic High School, this retention basin's soft soil gave way to erosion and was an eye sore in front of an otherwise beautiful campus, but with help from fellow scouts and volunteers Hamilton Gubanc organized and planned a successful restoration.  

The first thing to accomplish was to repair the damage that had already been done by stormwater runoff.  This was easy with the help of a skilled bobcat operator.  Next, the soil would have to be smoothed out and seeded.  After the proper slope was established, erosion control blanket could then be stapled down over the seed.  

Light-duty silt fence was used at the top and bottom of this project to keep additional sediment from eroding and to help allow the erosion control blanket to do it's job in keeping the grass seed from eroding away.  The final phase of this project was to place nonwoven filtration geotextile down the middle of the spillway that natural erosion had already chosen, and place rip rap stone over the geotextile to reinforce the spillway.