Soil Retention articles

The City of Arlington, TX recently opened a new bridge over Johnson Creek near Cowboys stadium. The new bridge was constructed nine feet higher than the old bridge and an old drainage culvert was replaced with a wider open channel to alleviate flooding during heavy storms. The project civil engineer, Wier & Associates, Inc., specified 31,500 sq ft. of 4” Enviroflex® Articulating Concrete Block Revetment for scour protection around the bridge footprint. Due to an existing railroa

Recently, Soil Retention’s Drivable Grass ® product was installed at a project for a bio retention area in Roslindale, MA.  Drivable Grass ® is a permeable, flexible and plantable concrete pavement system, and was specified for a bio retention space put in place by Boston Water & Sewer.  Drivable Grass ® was the product of choice for the bio retention area for its capability to mitigate storm water runoff allowing for infiltration, slow down run-off and p

San Diego Gas & Electric required a long term slope stabilization, erosion control, and storm water runoff control system to be installed on 2:1 slopes for a new substation located in Chula Vista, CA. The city determined that Soil Retention’s Drivable Grass® system was the best solution for their needs and also provided an aesthetically pleasing finish. Drivable Grass® is a flexible and permeable paving system that can be used for various applications. Drivable Grass&r

Multiple fully plantable Verdura® Retaining Walls were installed during the fall of 2016 at Marywood Hills by Soil Retention Systems, Inc.  The re-development plan for a 16-acre site into a 40 residential lot project with spectacular panoramic views included multiple Verdura® Walls within a challenging grading geometry.  The construction of 21,000 sf of wall with h

Enviroflex® is a fiber reinforced articulated concrete block for erosion control and scour protection. Following Soil Retention’s philosophy of performance of product and overall system instead of pure ease of manufacturing, Enviroflex® is cast as a tapered and vertically interlocking block (hard to make but very effective). Some flood control designers and major dam hydraulic engineers demand a tapered block feature that limits or eliminates block to block protrusion in the dir

Drivable Grass® has originally been designed with the intention to have commonly used spray irrigation systems installed underneath the product, including fitting sprinkler heads through cut voids of the mat or spraying from outside the installation. The conventional overspray irrigation system has been used successfully with Drivable Grass® for many years.

Soil Retention, manufacturer of Drivable Grass®, recently worked together with a leader in drip irrigation systems, N