Thursday, December 24, 2009

Repairing erosion after the flood with gabions


Last January our creek overflowed its banks, and the walls of the creek undermined our driveway, very close to the house. We discovered that this could be repaired using Gabions - strong wire baskets wired together and filled with rocks and built in stacks, each layer slightly overlapping the layer underneath.It has taken nearly a year to get to this job. Here you can see Digby with Suzy and Alistair, two WWOOFAS from Scotland who are spending Christmas with us, starting the rock layering. Very hot work.
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