Re: Keeping the water back
Tractors4,
Talk to the Corps of Engineers and/or the state environmental
aganecies. If sounds like you want to build up the land to stop
the creek from overflowing. That might be illegal.
If its ok to do I would talk to an engineer on how to build up the
bank so that it is less likely to fail.
Later,
Dan
Re: Keeping the water back
[img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] I have seen that bag trick used in some hiway jobs where they had periodic....but relatively rare.....flooding and they wanted to line the banks around a culvert. It is, however not commonly used for what you are considering. Normally, a creek bank is raised by backfilling with "very dirty" 3/4-minus gravel and then covered with dirt from either the surrounding area, or import. Creeks can scour pretty effectively at high water levels, so a larger, longer, dirt bank would be perferrable to a smaller bank made of bags. What might end up happening is that you would end up with an island of bags with water rushing by on the ends. [img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]