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Finally got the silt curtain dialed in on the Lake Erie project
After three weeks of fighting turbidity, we adjusted the anchor points and boom depth by 18 inches. Has anyone else found a better method for keeping the plume contained in a strong current?
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casey2686mo ago
We had a brutal time on the Mobile River last spring with a 2-knot current. The real fix for us was adding a second, smaller curtain about 15 feet upstream from the main one. It broke up the flow enough that the primary curtain could actually do its job. It was a pain to set up but cut our turbidity readings by more than half.
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morganl713mo ago
Call your anchor setup. A second curtain sounds great until you realize your anchor lines are now fighting each other. We set one up on the Trinity River and the upstream curtain pulled itself loose from the current, then the slack line wrapped around the downstream curtain's anchors. Two hours of untangling in the rain. If you try this, run separate anchor lines at different angles so they don't cross. Makes pulling and adjusting way easier. That setup trick saved us when nothing else would hold.
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juliaa656mo ago
Wow, my buddy tried that trick on the Ohio and it saved his whole project.
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