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Looming issue with Plastic Mesh/Netting <br />in Erosion Control Products <br />Plastic mesh neriing is a common material in erasion control products. It is utilized to bald lapse fibres materials in <br />place {EG straw) until vegetation is established. These products have been used extensively and are successful for <br />reducing soil erasion_ benefitting both sail health and water quality. Unfortunately there is a negative side of this <br />component It is increasingly being documented thaLit poses dangers to reptiles, amphibians, and mowing machinery. <br />Potential Problems: <br />a Plastic netting lays on the surface long after sifter components have decomposed_ <br />▪ Plastic mesh netting can result in entanglement and death of a variety of reptiles (snakes, frogs, toads, and <br />turtles}- Ducklings have also been documented entangled in the netting. <br />▪ Road maintenance machinery can snag the plastic mesh and pull up long lengths into machinery. thus binding up <br />machinery and causing damage and loss of time cleaning it out <br />Suggested Alternatives: <br />+ Do not use in known locations of reptiles or amphibians that are listed as Threatened or Endangered species. <br />+ Limit use where reptiles are likely (near wetlands, lakes, watercourses, or rock outcrops). <br />+ Use rapidly degradable rr.terial in all components of erosion control blanket, netting or biologs {fiber rolls) that <br />are to be left. on site as part of final stabilization. <br />+ Use types with smaller mesh size (smaller that W) or use types with non -welded netting_ <br />Areas near wetlands, lakes, watercourses are rock outmops are likely habitat fa- reptiles and amphibians and may not be <br />suitable for plastic mesh erosion control materials. <br />,snakes get caught in the plastic mesh <br />fhCto-Fhv.Tiv,dnnZ.atemn,vstwatertii'wate:-reenit secsionlvwuernutstea 2004 0001 marual,htav'l <br />Best Practices far -Meeting LtNR GP 2004-0001 (May 2011 Edition) Chapter 1, Page 2 Q <br />