Rhett Kerby shows what happens when a construction site skips temporary soil stabilization. A 300-foot slope eroded badly, carving a 7-foot hole and filling a 20-foot pond with silt. The contractor could have prevented thousands in damage with basic erosion control.
Approximately 300 ft.
About 20 ft deep.
Around 7 ft (described as "it's like a seven foot" hole).
This is the project site that, oh, it's been two or three weeks ago that I did drone video of this area. And because this area has a lot of construction, a lot of dirt being.
Moved and a lot of unstabilized soils.
Not by my choice, but the construction company and landowner, they've elected to not stabilize some of these areas.
And it's been my recommendation to them.
That they are completely exposed to tremendous soil erosion. So you can see up here, we're from here down to where I am is probably 300ft in elevation difference. This road comes here and you can see comes down. But they've called me back because of the issue that I'm about to show you. I'm going to spin around 180 degrees and you can see kind of where I'm going with this. So spin around 180 degrees.
This is, it's like a seven foot.
Hole and this just washes out.
This was a pond they were building. This was about 20ft deep. And now it's silted in completely. You can see all their dirt work has been eroded away. It's pretty well ended in this pond. The sides have sloughed off. But you can see here, it's a little, a little pedestal of native vegetation. They had these. And there's another one.
I think those are some interesting talking.
Points that I'll do another video on here in just a minute. But the idea is that because they did not stabilize up top, which you.
Cannot see, the water ran down, came between. There's actually a, a tributary here in these trees and funneled out here and blew out there and ruined their dirt work. So some stabilization at a minimum would have done this project a tremendous favor and it saved this landowner a tremendous amount of money.
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