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Kingston,Mi | Ryan's suggestion to divert along the waterway until established works but looks like heck with the cutting. I think I would try a fabric check cut into the water way and filled on the down stream side then the fabric is laid down over the fill, it does not stand up like an erosin control fence. Some places in Michigan have used this with success, fabric should be about 6 oz. per sq. yd. so that grass will grow thru it and anchor it down. Heavier fabrics will not let grass get established well enough and really light fabrics will not have the tensile strenght to remain in place. Use non-woven fabric as it drapes over the soil better. Do not apply any soil to the fabric but seed it any way with your chosen mix and ryegrass.
Before the fabric checks, used the bales anchored with fence posts, have had the bales pulled up and off of the posts by large rain events.
We built a large waterway that the farmer did not intend to cross similar in acerage to your site, 4 to 1 side slopes and a 20 to 30 ft flat bottom. Every 500 ft. (if I remember right) we put in a place to ford the waterway with loaded beet trucks. The fords were built with "picker stone" from a potato farm, stone hardheads 2 inches to 8 inches in diameter, the ford was 20 feet wide and the stone was 1.5 to 2 feet thick with 10 to 1 ramps back into the field. Stone was free for the hauling and the haul was about 5 miles one way.
The waterway was to be strawed to help the grass get established, but instead of hand labor , the farmer loaded a manure spreader and went down the waterway leaving ruts. In spite of the mistreatment initially, the waterway is still there 25 years later. | |
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Erosion control in new waterway
