Municipal Bank Stabilization

Bank stabilization is the process of installing and implementing resistive measures to mitigate soil erosion on river banks.  The process may be mechanical with the installation of geotechnical fabric and hard armoring with aggregate stone or by vegetative means or both.  Some projects have archeological restrictions that must be met to preserve cultural artifacts along with natural and environmental restrictions from various aquatic water fowl species.

In addition to archeological and environmental restrictions are physical site obstacles and challenges that include shallow and deep water conditions, distance from water borne equipment to shoreline, existing erosion with vegetation and bank height and slope.  Various factors will determine the proper complement of equipment needed to task the project.

Southern Shores has completed miles of shoreline bank stabilization projects encompassing thousands of tons of rip rap stone in the strictest archeological and environmental conditions and has an extensive fleet of land and marine equipment to task any bank stabilization project.