FILTER SHEET USED ON WORKING SCHEME

The stabilization is described of a lake bank by Fibertex filter sheet. The lake in the center of U.K.'s largest private housing development will act as a catchment for storm water and will ensure that excess water is discharged at an acceptable rate into the area drainage scheme. The lake is constructed in ground consisting of variable organic soils. Top soil, soft clay and peat covers the site to a depth of 0.3 - 1.2 m and overlie a grey silty and sometimes claying sand. The banks of the lake are stabilized by the use of gabions placed over 0.5 mm thick Fibertex filter sheet (a non-woven material of 95 percent polypropylene). A 1 m square gabion was sunk onto the botton of the lake to form a buttress from behind which the Fibertex was anchored. The Fibertex was then rolled out up the profile of the bank and covered with a 170 mm deep gabion mattress filled with 50-102 mm limestone rubble.

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  Foundation Publications Limited

  7 Ongar Road
  Brentwood CM15 9AU, Essex,   England 

  Wells (Edward) and Sons, Limited

  143/145 Camberwell New Road
  London SE5,   England 
• Publication Date: 1976-3

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 44
• Serial:
  • GROUND ENGINEERING
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: EMAP CONSTRUCT LIMITED
  • ISSN: 0017-4653

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Clay; Development; Drainage; Embankments; Filters; Gabions; Lakes; Limestone; Organic soils; Peat; Residential areas; Sheathing; Silty sands; Soil stabilization; Stability (Mechanics)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Residential development; Stabilization
• Old TRIS Terms: Embankment stability; Filter materials
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00135927
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 6 1976 12:00AM