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IECA Photo Gallery
12th Annual Photo Contest
2009 Contest Winners
We would like to thank everyone who submitted photos this year and congratulations to the winners! These photos were on display at EC09, IECA's 40th Conference and Expo in Reno, Nevada, USA, February 9-12, 2009. Click here to enter the contest.
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Impacts of Erosion & Sediment Control |
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Judging Criteria
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Without vegetations this very steep sidewall embankment created mutltiple Gullies and conducts emphemeral runoff causing sediment erosion and flooding.
Submitted by: Kory Kammeier, Western Excelsior Photographer: Kory Kammeier, Western Excelsior Location: Palm Springs, CA Date/Year taken: June 2008 |
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Strong sedimentation process in a completely destroyed “walkable” lake. Submitted by: Luiz Lucena, Delfor Bioengenharia, BR Photographer: Luiz Lucena, Delfor Bioengenharia, BR Location: Serro Mias Gerais, BR Date/Year taken: April 2007 |
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Shoreline erosion destroying an important recreation area on a beautiful tropical beach.
Submitted by: Luiz Lucena, Delfor Bioengenharia, BR Photographer: Luiz Lucena, Delfor Bioengenharia, BR Location: Bertioga, Săo Paulo BR Date/Year taken: August 2007 |
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A very high rain or snow event caused over saturated soils which led to road failure on old forest road.
Submitted by: John Evans, NDC Timberland Inc Photographer: John Evans, NDC Timberland Inc Location: Raymond, WA Date/Year taken: February 2008 |
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Flood waters washed away road bed.
Submitted by: Kurt Kelsey, American Excelsior Company Photographer: Kurt Kelsey, American Excelsior Company Location: Wisconsin Dells, WI Date/Year taken: September 2008 |
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Hillside erosion in Central City, Colorado entering municipal separate storm sewer system.
Submitted by: Greg Maxey, Southern Civil Engineers, Inc. Photographer: Greg Maxey, Southern Civil Engineers, Inc. Location: Central City, CO Date/Year taken: August 2008 |
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Hillside erosion in Central City, Colorado entering municipal separate storm sewer system.
Submitted by: Greg Maxey, Southern Civil Engineers, Inc. Photographer: Greg Maxey, Southern Civil Engineers, Inc. Location: Central City, CO Date/Year taken: August 2008 |
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Improvement of this road has been going too slowly.
Submitted by: Chainmit Navarat, Eternal Fibre Industry, Co., LTD Photographer: Chainmit Navarat, Eternal Fibre Industry, Co., LTD Location: Rayong, Thailand Date/Year taken: February 2008 |
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Technology in Action |
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Effective slope and sediment erosion control practices using erosion control blankets, sediment control wattles and straw bales. Submitted by: Kory Kammeier, Western Excelsior Photographer: Kory Kammeier, Western Excelsior Location: Hayward, CA Date/Year taken: July 2008 |
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Bonded Fiber Matrix and Stabilized Mulch Mix were hydraulically applied by helicopter for vegetative establishement after fires.
Submitted by: Jeff Langer, Profile Products Photographer: Dennis Hubbard Location: Griffith Park - Los Angeles, CA Date/Year taken: December 2007 |
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River belt was elevated to protect exposed gas pipeline. During the rainy season, the Paramapapema River fills this channel. Submitted by: Luiz Lucena, Delfor Bioengenharia, BR Photographer: Elanie Beirigo Location: Sergipe, BR Date/Year taken: April 2007 |
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Turbidity curtain separates existing stream from the silts in the new stream during final construction.
Submitted by: Nadine Bole, City of Portland Photographer: Nadine Bole Location: Portland, OR Date/Year taken: August 2007 |
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Transition mats installed on sand levee to stop wave erosion. Installation survived two major flood events in 08.
Submitted by: Thomas Carpenter, Erosion Tech, LLC Photographer: Thomas Carpenter, Erosion Tech, LLC Location: Mississippi River, Lock 17 Date/Year taken: September 2008 |
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New technology transition mats, replacing traditional rock rip rap installations, offer greater erosion protection as a vegetated solution. Submitted by: Thomas Carpenter, Erosion Tech, LLC Photographer: Thomas Carpenter, Erosion Tech, LLC Location: Wuapaca, WI Date/Year taken: May 2008 |
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A geogrid and ECB wrapped soil wall was used to fix a forest road slope failure. Submitted by: John Evans, NDC Timber Inc Photographer: John Evans, NDC Timber Inc Location: Raymond, WA Date/Year taken: September 2008 |
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Huge gully in an iron ore mine treated with bioengineering technology. Submitted by: Luiz Lucena, Delfor Bioengenharia, BR Photographer: Felipe Amancio Location: Minas Gerais, BR Date/Year taken: January 2006 |
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2.2 KM long gabion mattress outflow channel from Lake Ilopango to the Jiboa River. Submitted by: George Ragazzo, Modular Gabion Systems Photographer: George Ragazzo, Modular Gabion Systems Location: Lake Ilopango, El Salvador Date/Year taken: November 2007 |
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New pipe, flatter slopes and road widening through fish habitat. Submitted by: Gary Walkin, State of Alaska Photographer: Gary Walkin, State of Alaska Location: Kenai Peninsula, AK Date/Year taken: July 2008 |
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Grade lowering to minimize wetland and stream impacts. Submitted by: Gary Walkin, State of Alaska Photographer: Gary Walkin, State of Alaska Location: Soldotna, AK Date/Year taken: June 2008 |
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Erosion Control Bloopers |
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A homeowner’s “interesting” attempt to stabilize hillside erosion (after the fact) in precarious Pauba Ridge formation soil. Submitted by: Lynn Kubasek, Hunsaker & Associaties Photographer: Lynn Kubasek, Hunsaker & Associaties Location: Temecula, CA Date/Year taken: February 2008 |
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Apparently requiring contractors to keep portable toilets inside the job site, away from the right-of-way, is not foolproof. Submitted by: Adam Lyman, American Geotechnics Photographer: Tom Dillon Location: Meridian, ID Date/Year taken: August 2008 |
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A neighbor filled the storm sewer with packing peanuts and had more in his driveway to pour into the storm sewer. Submitted by: Shirley Morrow, ABC’s of BMP’s Photographer: Bridget Barbernitz Location: Spring Hill, KS Date/Year taken: Summer 2008 |
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Major rain caused a large amount of sediment to wash into intersection. Instead of removing sediment, site operators settled on this solution. Submitted by: Andrew Harter, City of Kearney Photographer: Andrew Harter, City of Kearney Location: Kearney, NE Date/Year taken: June 2008 |
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Straw bales cause entire ditch to fail. Submitted by: Kurt Kelsey, American Excelsior Company Photographer: Mike Nelson Location: Rice Lake, WI Date/Year taken: April 2008 |
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A blow out in a subdivision due to wrong inlet protection. Submitted by: Don Kipp, Atwell-Hicks Photographer: Don Kipp, Atwell-Hicks Location: Tampa Bay, FL Date/Year taken: August 2008 |
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Inlet protection with soil and vegetations growing in it. Lower Image: Notice storm sewer stencil reads “Don’t Pollute.” Submitted by: Shirley Morrow, ABC’s of BMP’s Photographer: Bridget Barbernitz Location: Spring Hill, KS Date/Year taken: Fall 2008 |
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Before and After |
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Judging Criteria
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Huge gully treated with erosion control blankets and a gabion for drainage. Submitted by: Paula Pereira, Delfor Bioengenharia, BR Photographer: Paula Pereira, Delfor Bioengenharia, BR Location: Minas Gerais, BR Date/Year taken: January 2006/May 2006 |
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Rocky slope where vegetation was established using substrate and wattles as support.
Submitted by: Aloisio Pereira, Delfo Bioengenharia, BR Photographer: Aloisio Pereira, Delfo Bioengenharia, BR Location: Săo Roque, Săo Paulo, BR Date/Year taken: January 2006/May 2008 |
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Geogrid and erosion control blanket soil walls were used to fix a forest road slope failure. Submitted by: John Evans, NDC Timberland Inc Photographer: John Evans, NDC Timberland Inc Location: Raymond, WA Date/Year taken: August 2008/October 2008 |
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Before: Basic new alignment for Johnson Creek. After: Flood plain excavcation, stream bed grading, large wood structures, soil wrapped walls. Submitted by: Nadine Bole, City of Portland Photographer: Nadine Bole, City of Portland Location: Portland, OR Date/Year taken: July 2007/August 2007 |
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A debris slide starting higher on the hillside caused a forest road washout. A new fill was constructed using horizontally placed geogrid layers, ECB and French drains. Submitted by: John Evans, NDC Timberland Inc Photographer: John Evans, NDC Timberland Inc Location: Raymond, WA Date/Year taken: August 2008/October 2008 |
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The place is a flood zone. Every year flood causes heavy damage over the area. Submitted by: Mohammad Rakibul Hasan, Image Bank Photo Agency Photographer: Mohammad Rakibul Hasan, Image Bank Photo Agency Location: Sherpur, Bangladesh Date/Year taken: March 2008/June 2008 |
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Permanent turf reinforcement mat made from recycled soda bottlesprovides green solution to handle hydraulic requirements of spillway. Submitted by: Kurt Kelsey, American Excelsior Company Photographer: Joel Seawell Location: Dadeville, AL Date/Year taken: January 2007/September 2008 |
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Before: Constructing new channel and utilizing barrier diversion around work zone and in water. After: Completed stabilized channel. Submitted by: Gary Walklin, State of Alaska Photographer: Gary Walklin, State of Alaska Location: Kenai Peninsula, AK Date/Year taken: April 2007/September 2008 |
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Damaged riverbank restoration and repair. Located along Boise River. Bank was eroding the green belt which runs through a sensitive nature preserve. Submitted by: Steve Webb, City of Boise Photographer: Jim Wylie & Steve Webb Location: Boise, ID Date/Year taken: October 2007/December 2008 |
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