Filtrexx Edge Saver ™
How does it work?
Stream banks, pond edges, riparian areas, and sediment ponds are often places that are hard to establish long term vegetative protection to erosion. Establishment of native vegetation is challenging due to the soils used during construction and the time it takes for natives to become established.
The use of the Filtrexx EdgeSaver tm system combines a Growing Media and placement of tubular geotextiles to assist in the establishment phase, which results in higher success rates. The EdgeSaver tm system is the most customizable system available today for naturalists wanting to re-introduce native species using seeds, plugs, bare root or live stake species. In addition, the Growing Media specification may be changed to accommodate various species and their preferred growing habitat.
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Where should this practice be used?
Filtrexx FilterSoxx tm are used in combination with backfill media (Growing Media) to create EdgeSaver tm, a sustainable, customizable, scalable solution to a challenging area of eroded streambanks or pond banks. Loose products like soil or mulch are commonly added to edges only to find them eroded or washed away after the first rain. As such, the EdgeSaver tm program uses Filtrexx FilterSoxx tm to contain these loose materials and establish the edge against which additional backfill can be added, without allowing it to fall into the stream or pond bank until vegetation can stabilize the entire area.
Compost (Growing Media) used to manufacture EdgeSaver tm applications has been known to provide an excellent growing media for vegetation establishment. By allowing nurse crop vegetation to become established through the Soxx tm, roots act like ‘velcro’ and attach the Soxx tm to the bank, protecting them from washing away. Later, during the next high water event, the system allows sediment to become deposited on top of and in vegetation. In turn, the vegetation grows through these layers of sediment, establishing sustainability in a long-term system.
Compost also offers some properties of chemical filtration (binding of metals and nutrients) and biological filtration (destruction of harmful substances) from the unique compost media blend contained in the netting materials.
