Shoreline Protection | DATE POSTED: April 28, 2016
After a number of hurricanes, Cancun’s, Mexico, beaches and sandbars were in major need of restoration. Working with the Mexican Tourism Board, 81 Geotube® units were installed covering a space over 1.24 miles. New Beaches were created from dredging and filling of the Geotube® units.
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The Emerald Point Resort, was facing beach erosion and a loss of sand dunes. They needed a solution to their problems, and sought the use of the Geotube® technology
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NASA flight facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, was severely eroded during the 2006 Hurricane Ernesto. With a scheduled flight a year later, Geotube® technology was used to remediate the beach using 23 Geotube® units, over 4600 feet in length in a speedy 2 month process.
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Severe erosion across the New Jersey Shoreline saw the Environmental Protection Agency implement Geotube® technology across 400 feet of beach. Tan coloured Geotube® units were laid and filled with a sand mixture to provide support from further erosion.
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Upham Beach, Pinellas county, Florida faces major erosion and remediation every year during the storm season. In 2004, the US Army Corp of engineers employed 200’ Geotube® containers to form a ‘T’ section on the beach that will act as a permanent cost cutting measure against coastal erosion.
DOWNLOAD PDFShoreline Protection | DATE POSTED: April 26, 2016
Round Lake, Ontario, regularly faces property damage through erosion and ice destruction every winter. Previous methods were unsatisfactory, so Bishop Water constructed a 100ft Geotube® across the shoreline to act as a long term preventative measure. Success of the project is based on the lack of further erosion.
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