2013 Photo Contest Sponsored By Land and Water Magazine
Enter our 2013 contest which will be held at our annual conference in San Diego, California. Click here to enter the contest.
Last Year's Contest Winners
We would like to thank everyone who submitted photos this year and congratulations to the winners! These photos were on display at EC12, IECA's 43rd Conference and Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, February 26-29, 2012.
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Impacts of Erosion & Sediment Control
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Judging Criteria
- Degree of environmental impact - what is the effect on water or air
quality?
- Degree of social impact - what is the effect on property, human life,
infrastructure, etc.?
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Massive erosion of channel side walls entering an overloaded sediment basin.
Submitted by: Melanie McCaleb, North Carolina State University
Photographer: Melanie McCaleb
Location: Clayton, NC
Date/Year taken: May, 2008 |
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Impact of off-site sediment.
Submitted by: Melanie McCaleb, North Carolina State University
Photographer: Melanie McCaleb
Location: Clayton, NC
Date/Year taken: March, 2008
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Huge gully near city development area.
Submitted by: Luiz Lucena, Deflor Bioengenharia
Photographer: Paula Pereira
Location: Recife, Pernambuco State – Brazil
Date/Year taken: July, 2009 |
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Rupture of embankment in saturation of water.
Submitted by: Fernando Andrade, Agrogeo Engenharia LTDA
Photographer: Fernando Andrade
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Date/Year taken: August, 2011 |
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A 60,000 yd.3 stockpile lacked stabilization and perimeter controls during a 4” rain event. Sediment laden runoff entered the county MS4 and impacted an active roadway.
Submitted by: Gregory Ewanitz, Orange Country Environmental Protection Division
Photographer: Gregory Ewanitz
Location: Orange County, FL
Date/Year taken: March, 2011 |
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Severe erosion process for over ten years in an iron ore mine. Traces of the former berms can still be observed. At the time treatment had been just begun.
Submitted by: Luiz Lucena, DEFLOR Bioengenharia
Photographer: Aloisio Pereira
Location: Gandarela Mine, Minas Gerais State, Brazil
Date/Year taken: September, 2011 |
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Amazing erosion process in highway slopes.
Submitted by: Luiz Lucena, Deflor Bioengenharia
Photographer: Luiz Lucena
Location: Bom Despacho, Minas Gerais State – Brazil
Date/Year taken: January, 2011 |
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Importance of vegetation to erosion control shown in this close up of rain splash effects.
Submitted by: Kurt Kelsey, American Excelsior Company
Photographer: John Slupecki
Location: Pensacola, FL
Date/Year taken: October, 2011 |
Technology in Action |
Judging Criteria
- Identification of Technology - is it obvious what technology is being
used?
- Degree of Action - does the photo show a process or merely a completed
installation?
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Hillside slope featuring 100% coconut RECPs for 3 year slope stabilization on a high school project.
Submitted by: Kory Kammeier, Western Excelsior
Photographer: Kory Kammeier
Location: Carlsbad, CA
Date/Year taken: September, 2011
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Slope stabilization and protection using Green Soil Nailing.
Submitted by: Luiz Lucena, Deflor Bioengenharia
Photographer: Paula Pereira
Location: Caieiras, Sao Paulo State – Brazil
Date/Year taken: September, 2011 |
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Channel slope protection using Vetiver Grass.
Submitted by: Luiz Lucena, Deflor Bioengenharia
Photographer: Paula Pereira
Location: Porto Velho, Roraima State – Brazil
Date/Year taken: September, 2011
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Airport expansion of Sao Paulo International.
Submitted by: AFernando Andrade, Agrogeo Engenharia LTDA
Photographer: Fernando Andrade
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Date/Year taken: November, 2007 |
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Reservoir slope protection using wattles and coconut fiber blankets.
Submitted by: Luiz Lucena, DEFLOR Bioengenharia
Photographer: Laercio Costa
Location: Sapucaia, Minas Gerais State – Brazil
Date/Year taken: May, 2007
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Hydraulic mulch and seed is sprayed from a tower while being pulled. Fan spray nozzle covers 5-6 ft shoulder along roadside of this newly paved road.
Submitted by: Adam Dibble, Profile Products
Photographer: Adam Dibble
Location: DeKalb, IL
Date/Year taken: August, 2011
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Angeles National Park wildfires destroyed vegetation causing heavily eroded mountainsides. High performance hydraulic applied mulch and slope intervention devices are used on this extreme slope!
Submitted by: Adam Dibble, Profile Products
Photographer: Adam Dibble
Location: LaCanada, Route 2 Angeles National Park
Date/Year taken: February, 2011 |
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Log crib walls, new plants, stream rocks and boulders for stabilizing slow sliding banks due to water saturation and stream flow.
Submitted by: Fred Gu, City of Mercer Island
Photographer: Fred Gu
Location: Mercer Island, WA
Date/Year taken: October, 2011 |
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Aspen wattle sediment erosion protection winding through Rocky Mountains. Aspen wattles are used instead of straw.
Submitted by: Kory Kammeier, Western Excelsior
Photographer: Kory Kammeier
Location: Rifle, CO
Date/Year taken: August, 2010 |
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Installation of coir rolls and straw bale terraces on extreme slopes. All construction on this site was done by hand due to rugged terrain.
Submitted by: Zoe Isaacson, NM Abandoned Mine Land Program
Photographer: John Kretzmann
Location: Sugarite State Park, NM
Date/Year taken: October, 2010 |
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Very steep slope protected using Green Soil Nailing.
Submitted by: Luiz Lucena, DEFLOR Bioengenharia
Photographer: Laercio Costa
Location: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State – Brazil
Date/Year taken: December, 2011 |
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Recovery of a huge gully.
Submitted by: Luiz Lucena, DEFLOR Bioengenharia
Photographer: Adriano Mendes
Location: Itumbiara, Goias State – Brazil
Date/Year taken: February, 2006 |
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Curlex Enforcer protecting pack shoreline from rising waters.
Submitted by: Kurt Kelsey, American Excelsior Company
Photographer: Mike Nelson
Location: Rice Lake, WI
Date/Year taken: November, 2011 |
Erosion Control Bloopers |
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Unprotected slope leading to erosion and collapsed drainage structures.
Submitted by: Luiz Lucena, Deflor Bioengenharia
Photographer: Cristiane Barbosa
Location: Carajas, Para State – Brazil
Date/Year taken: February, 2011 |
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Angeles National Park wildfires destroyed vegetation causing heavily eroded mountainsides. Grading “tracking” and slope intervention devices didn’t work as rills formed on this extreme slope.
Submitted by: Adam Dibble, Profile Products
Photographer: Adam Dibble
Location: LaCanada, Route 2 Angeles National Park
Date/Year taken: February, 2011 |
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Improperly built retaining wall collapsed filling wetlands and creek. No permits.
Submitted by: Jeanette Hall City of Jacksonville
Photographer: Jeanette Hall
Location: Jacksonville, NC
Date/Year taken: August, 2011 |
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Lack of maintenance and heavy traffic destroyed this inlet protection.
Submitted by: Jeanette Hall, City of Jacksonville
Photographer: Jeanette Hall
Location: Jacksonville, NC
Date/Year taken: August, 2010 |
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Unprotected slope leading to erosion and collapsed drainage structures.
Submitted by: Luiz Lucena, Deflor Bioengenharia
Photographer: Luiz Lucena
Location: Nova Lima, Minas Gerais State – Brazil
Date/Year taken: February, 2011 |
Before and After |
Judging Criteria
- Photo alignment - are the photos taken from exactly the same place?
- How much change is shown - how dramatic is the After photo compared
to the Before photo?
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Watercourse stabilization by regrading severely incised banks and stream bed, installing bed control structures and stream rocks. Removing invasive species before replanting with native plants.
Submitted by: Fred Gu, City of Mercer Island
Photographer: Fred Gu
Location: Mercer Island, WA
Date/Year taken: August, 2011/October, 2011 |
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City Park eroding stream bank stabilized using soil bioengineering techniques - resulting in a vegetated stream bank.
Submitted by: Dave Burgdorf, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Photographer: Dave Burgdorf
Location: Ford Field Park, Dearborn, MI
Date/Year taken: November, 1998/ June, 2002 |
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Huge gully in the margins of a reservoir, treated with wattles and coconut fiber blankets.
Submitted by: Luiz Lucena, Deflor Bioengenharia
Photographer: Laercio P Costa
Location: Sapucaia, Rio de Janeiro State – Brazil
Date/Year taken: June, 2011/July, 2011 |
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Sediment retainer green wall with rip-raps on the face in the duplication of the highway.
Submitted by: Fernando Andrade, Agrogeo Engenharia LTDA
Photographer: Fernando Andrade
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Date/Year taken: August, 2008, September, 2011
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Iron Ore Mine slope protection using straw blankets.
Submitted by: Luiz Lucena, Deflor Bioengenharia
Photographer: Cristiane Barbosa
Location: Carajas, Para State – Brazil
Date/Year taken: May, 2011/June, 2011 |
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Watercourse stabilization by regrading severely incised banks and stream bed, installing bed control structures and stream rocks. Removing invasive species before replanting with native plants. Re-use on-site LWD (Root Wad).
Submitted by: Fred Gu, City of Mercer Island
Photographer: Fred Gu
Location: Mercer Island, WA
Date/Year taken:August, 2011/October, 2011 |
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Watercourse stabilization by regrading severely incised banks and stream bed, installing bed control structures and stream rocks. Removing invasive species before replanting with native plants.
Submitted by: Fred Gu, City of Mercer Island
Photographer: Fred Gu
Location: Mercer Island, WA
Date/Year taken: February, 2010/October, 2011 |
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Tree clearing on creek bank gone bad. 2:1 slopes unprotected for months. Finally finished.
Submitted by: Jeanette Hall, City of Jacksonville
Photographer: Jeanette Hall
Location: Jacksonville, NC
Date/Year taken: May, 2011/October, 2011 |
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Innovatine use of two BMPs - Curlex© and Filtrexx © compost. Before: Compost over Curlex on day of install. After: 20 days post-install.
Submitted by: Kurt Kelsey, American Excelsior Company
Photographer: Jonathan Hunt
Location: Waynesboro, VA
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In-situ reclamation of abandoned coal mine job. Notice use of branchpacking, coir roll terraces, and seedling planting for slope stabilization.
Submitted by: Zoe Isaacson, NM Abandoned Mine Land Program
Photographer: John Kretzmann
Location: Sugarite State Park, NM
Date/Year taken: October, 2000/October, 2010 |
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Iron Ore Mine Rehabilitation using gabions for drainage, wattles and coconut fiber blankets.
Submitted by: Luiz Lucena, Deflor Bioengenharia
Photographer: Alosio Pereira
Location: Rio Acima, Minas Gerais State – Brazil
Date/Year taken: December, 2008/January, 2009 |
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