Stabilizing Streambanks Naturally

[@sunitadwarka347]

Very nice idea to protect river bank I have some suggestions. Use root tree like ginger, turmeric, elephant foot and taro. Ginger and turmeric is smaller in hight. Elephant foot have very larger root. We can boil in vinegar and stirr fry. Taro grow inside and outside water. Very nice tree for river bank. We can cook fermented taro Hawaii recipe. Easy plantation. Spread naturally. Jay bharat.

[@adamschaafsma5839]

Awesome information!

[@katherinepoulos4013]

Just curious, What has the success of this project been ten years later? What has failed? What would you do differently?

[@eleanormattice3598]

Golf courses near waterways is a poor idea. They use so much herbicides to keep their greens even and weed-free and these chemicals run off into the river during melting snow and rain events.

[@geezee1946]

Maybe google maps has photos.

[@looking8030]

Awesome work

[@logangomez4475]

Good to learn about this great habitat.

[@guyh.4553]

As a Westerner in the Conservation arena, I say it's about time you easterners joined the club. I was designing & installing these in 1998. Seeing that groomed golf course bank, even with the root wads in place, just made me laugh out loud. Fish habitat would be minimal at best.

[@DougLyons-d8t]

It a new concept here in the East.

[@georgeradak4119]

Now I understand the saying "Uglier than a mud fence"

[@DougLyons-d8t]

While this is great work, notice that where trees were on the bank there was no erosion. Removing trees from the riparian buffer is going to result in erosion.

[@billwest7481]

Irene and a preceding line of heavy thunderstorms caused some of the worst flood damage ever for the inland Northeast.

[@corekin6386]

New Hampshire here!

[@robertharcourt7650]

Why don't they remove the island of gravel and place it in the stream where it is lacking gravel for fish to spawn in?

[@DougLyons-d8t]

The river will redistribute the gravel during high water events.

[@5INC33]

R O O T W A D S

[@northwoodsdad7506]

I hope the golf course paid for the work.

[@rameneater1437]

They did it for them for free. Because that's how it is for rich white people in America. Lazy bastards

[@crystalparker9117]

No, they got a grant for it

[@fixento]

There is no such thing as stabilizing stream banks, the river, stream, creek will take it's natural course on mother natures time table, not the rash on her skin time, humans.

[@connecticutriver]

Mother nature will always win out in the long run, but for the time being these adjustments can help reduce erosion and provide habitat for aquatic species.

[@joe-ku5hd]

Remove the golf course

[@nonewherelistens1906]

Certain have a 500-foot setback from the stream so natural vegetation can take over.

[@OldSaltyBear]

Boy it sure is nice for the Vermont government to use tax payer funds to help out that golf course. Last year I contacted my own State about the erosion of my farm at the river and they told me to be sure I hire a state approved contractor and file all the required permits.

[@KB4QAA]

Looks like about 12 Square Feet of 'fish habitat" in those root balls. shakes head.