Spartan Motors Field Day

This last Wednesday, June 27, our group organized our first field demonstration day. We had 35 people from 15 different organizations in attendance. Spartan Motors was very cooperative and allowed us to utilize their site to demonstrate proper installation methods for a few temporary stabilization methods.

Installed on the site is:

• Erosion Control Blankets - North American Green DS150, S75BN, SC150
• SedimentSTOP, Biodegradable filtration system
• Hydromulch
• Crimped Straw (we also saw the handmade crimper)
• Straw with tackifier

The manufacturer’s installation details can be found at:
http://www.nagreen.com/resources/specifications.html

We wouldn’t have made it without the efforts of Steve Shaw and his crew from The Sacred Tree. They went all out to make sure the site was ready for us. They installed all the products we looked at and also provided us with some insight on installing these products.

I plan on taking pictures weekly of the installation so we can see the results. The rain we received during the walkthrough was great, we needed it.

For those of you who ran away, you should have been looking at the SedimentSTOP and the blankets. After the short viewing of the Spartan facility, we had the opportunity to see how the soil had held up after the rain and discuss the crimper. Later that afternoon and evening it rained more. The guys from The Sacred Tree said the water was nearly flowing over the top of the SedimentSTOP that was by the sign-in table. I will have pictures of the site taken that afternoon and following weeks at our next meeting.

Let me know if there are products you just can’t seem to get to work or if you want to see some particular product you haven’t seen before. There is a great deal of interest in doing this again.

Also, we discussed an upcoming CPESC training our group is organizing. It will take place this fall on November 28th and testing on November 29th. More information on CPESC certification can be found at www.cpesc.org .

John Price, Price and Company, will be conducting our training. We are planning on 2 options, either training and certification or just the training with no certification.