Whether it’s a government or corporate project requiring a standalone service, or integrated with other civil construction works, Solve Civil is your professional partner for erosion control services.
We cover erosion control for fauna rehabilitation sites, post-construction projects, and mining site rehabilitation. Combined with our other construction and rehabilitation services, you’ll have a single point of contact for all your large-scale project needs.
Erosion control focuses on the methods and measures that are used to prevent soil loss caused by wind and water erosion, as well as construction activity. It’s used to protect infrastructure, waterways, and adjacent land.
While erosion control and sediment control are often conflated, they each serve a different purpose. Erosion management involves stopping the movement of soil, whereas sediment control involves capturing dislodged soil before it leaves a site.
For construction and civil infrastructure projects, erosion and sediment control measures are mandatory requirements in order to comply with New South Wales Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) regulations.
Whichever service of ours you choose to implement, they all offer some level of erosion control. Each is geared towards stabilising soil, managing ground cover, or preventing land degradation in some form.
At Solve Civil, our primary erosion management methods are comprised of the following three practices:
Hydromulching
A spray-on slurry of seed, mulch, fertiliser, and various tackifiers and binders, hydromulching forms a protective layer over the soil it’s applied upon. The thick mulch and binders in hydromulch make it an excellent choice for erosion management on slopes, embankments, and other areas that have a considerable incline. Learn more: hydromulching services.
Hydroseeding
Similar to hydromulching, hydroseeding is a spray-on solution of seed, fertiliser, light mulch, and bonding agents that quickly establishes vegetation at sprayed sites. Their lighter composition makes them suitable for use on flat surfaces and small slopes and inclines requiring revegetation. Learn more: hydroseeding services.
Soil stabilisation
Our soil stabilisation service involves a chemical or mechanical treatment that strengthens your soil. It reduces permeability while offering ground cover protection on haul roads, embankments, and other heavily worked sites. Learn more: soil stabilisation services.
To supplement our primary erosion control practices, we recommend regular preventative maintenance, including:
Weed spraying
Our targeted herbicides remove shallow-rooted invasive weeds before they have a chance to disrupt valuable, deep-rooted vegetation that holds soil in place. It’s a perfect complement to hydroseeding or hydromulching.
Vegetation management
We offer continued care of your site’s newly-grown and existing vegetation. Doing so helps ensure long-term erosion resistance, vital for rehabilitated and council-managed tracts of land.
Sometimes, erosion management is required at a large scale. Here are just some of our more specialised methods to re-establish ecosystems:
Revegetation services
In consultation with your site managers and ecologists, we’ll re-establish native or site-appropriate vegetation across large areas of degraded and disturbed land. We’ll work with you to select species and implement long-term monitoring for rehabilitation progress.
Mine rehabilitation
Mining can cause considerable environmental disruption, so rehabilitation practices must be adhered to. We’ll implement staged mining site rehabilitation in line with EPA compliance requirements. Our combination of stabilisation, revegetation, and monitoring means you’ll have a restored, self-sustaining landscape.
Dust control solutions
To prevent aeolian soil erosion, we’ll treat your site with an application of suppressants, surface binders, and vegetable cover to stop topsoil from becoming airborne at exposed sites, unpaved roads, and stockpile areas.
There are a number of site types that our erosion control services will benefit that go way beyond small residential plots and gardens. Here’s just some of the project types that we’ve reduced erosion for:
Civil infrastructure
Road verges, highway embankments, rail corridors, drainage barriers, stormwater channels, and other types of infrastructure all benefit from erosion management. Each of these are commonly found across average suburbs, and erosion control in these areas helps minimise structural issues.
Civil infrastructure
Road verges, highway embankments, rail corridors, drainage barriers, stormwater channels, and other types of infrastructure all benefit from erosion management. Each of these are commonly found across average suburbs, and erosion control in these areas helps minimise structural issues.
Civil infrastructure
Road verges, highway embankments, rail corridors, drainage barriers, stormwater channels, and other types of infrastructure all benefit from erosion management. Each of these are commonly found across average suburbs, and erosion control in these areas helps minimise structural issues.
Civil infrastructure
Road verges, highway embankments, rail corridors, drainage barriers, stormwater channels, and other types of infrastructure all benefit from erosion management. Each of these are commonly found across average suburbs, and erosion control in these areas helps minimise structural issues.
Civil infrastructure
Road verges, highway embankments, rail corridors, drainage barriers, stormwater channels, and other types of infrastructure all benefit from erosion management. Each of these are commonly found across average suburbs, and erosion control in these areas helps minimise structural issues.
Civil infrastructure
Road verges, highway embankments, rail corridors, drainage barriers, stormwater channels, and other types of infrastructure all benefit from erosion management. Each of these are commonly found across average suburbs, and erosion control in these areas helps minimise structural issues.
At Solve Civil, we make erosion control easy. Here’s how we do it:
1. Site Assessment
By examining your site's slopes, soil type, drainage patterns, and proximity to waterways, we'll develop an erosion solution that's in line with your local council and EPA requirements.
2. Method selection
Once our site assessment is complete, we'll give you a detailed rundown of erosion management methods that we recommend for your situation, based on your site's conditions, project timeline, and budget.
3. Surface preparation
With your erosion control method selected, we'll start clearing your site of any debris and prepare your soil to get the most out of erosion control.
5. Monitoring and aftercare
Once the job is done, we'll give you tips on how to maintain your site, as well as monitoring to assess RPA compliance and long-term effectiveness of erosion management.
4. Application
We'll deploy your chosen erosion control solution at your site, whether it be hydroseeding, hydromulching, sediment control, or a combination with other methods.
We have dedicated erosion control capabilities. You can see our excellent results across multiple projects in Sydney, encompassing a variety of environmental conditions.
At Solve Civil, you'll have one point of contact for your entire erosion control process, from our initial assessment to establishing vegetation. We're industry experts, and can guide you every step of the way.
We’re happy to act as a subcontractor and can integrate with a range of earthworks, civil construction, and infrastructure projects. You won't need to coordinate between multiple contractors.
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The most effective erosion control solution is to establish vegetation growth at your site. As part of this, quick vegetation establishment methods such as hydroseeding and hydromulching can help get erosion under control and help your site flourish.
Generally speaking, erosion is controlled on NSW construction sites through capturing sediment runoff, diverting water away from erosion-vulnerable sites, and stabilising existing soil. At Solve Civil, we offer services that address each of these pain points and more to protect your site from erosion.
The cost of erosion control in Sydney can vary depending on the size and type of site requiring erosion management, as well as the method deployed.
Yes, it can. At Solve Civil, all of our erosion control and other services can be integrated into a comprehensive package to address concerns at your civil construction project site.
Erosion control can be an effective method of safeguarding the integrity of your site, provided that you choose the right method and follow aftercare and monitoring requirements post-treatment.
Discover how Solve Civil can transform your next project.
Solve Civil is focused on delivering sustainable erosion control systems for your project. We can deliver positive outcomes for both government and corporate clients, and offer our services as both standalone and integrated solutions that take the stress out of compliance. We believe the best erosion management projects benefit from having a single contractor and point of contact, which is exactly what you’ll get with Solve Civil.
Contact us today for a quote and site assessment, and start managing erosion.
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