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Filtrexx® offers a wide range of Soxx solutions for bioswales applications. Bioswales are defined as landscape elements designed and engineered to reduce silt, pollution and other particles from stormwater runoff. They are usually permanent, vegetated, shallow landscape depressions or channels where stormwater is directed, slowed, filtered and partially absorbed. Bioswales improve water quality because they help infiltrate the first flush of stormwater runoff and filter the subsequent flows of water they convey. Our Filtrexx Bioswale system combines infiltration, biofiltration, and flow velocity control mechanisms to reduce stormwater pollutant loading and flow surges to receiving waters, infiltration areas, and containment systems.

This Low Impact Development (LID) management practice combines the benefits of organic matter, vegetation, and proprietary additives (optional) to physically and chemically (ionic adsorption) filter stormwater pollutants. Our GroSoxx® is an ideal alternative to help control stormwater, while promoting vegetation growth in places requiring green areas. We can also incorporate pollutant removal additives with our EnviroSoxx® product portfolio, where different types of mesh, additives and media can be customized for every project.

CHANNEL PROTECTION ADVANTAGES

• Withstands hydraulic shear stress up to 12 lbs/sq. ft (59kg/m2)
• Applicable on slopes up to 2:1
• More intimate surface contact
• Can be direct seeded during installation

APPLICATIONS

• Stormwater diversion channels
• Stormwater conveyance channels
• Channel/ditch bank protection
• Outlet protection for storm drains, paved channels, and culverts

A gabion is usually a cage, cylinder, or box filled with rocks, concrete, sometimes sand and soil for use in civil engineering, road building, military applications and landscaping. Filtrexx® Gabions systems utilize our GroSoxx® technology. GroSoxx Gabion is a structural vegetated armoring technology used to stabilize and prevent erosion of waterway and shoreline banks. GroSoxx Gabions combine the benefits of soft and hard armor technologies to provide maximum structural protection, erosion control, vegetation growth, and vegetation reinforcement in one system.

GroSoxx Gabions are specifically designed for applications where water flow and intense hydraulic pressures typically undermine vegetation growth. GroSoxx Gabions combine heavy duty tubular mesh netting material, used to contain and stabilize custom growing media and vegetation placed within the gabion basket, and drip tape irrigation (optional) to ensure establishment and sustainability of seeded and/or live stake plantings. The weight and anchoring system is designed to withstand concentrated water flow velocities and hydraulic shear stresses similar to traditional soft armoring devices (brush mattresses, coconut fiber logs, turf reinforcement mats) and hard armoring devices (rip rap, rock gabion baskets).