Coir Fiber Logs for Erosion Control

Coir fiber logs have several advantages. The coconut fiber logs have typical diameters of 12 inches, 16 inches, and 20 inches, depending on the needs of your project. Coir fiber logs are 10 feet in length but can be joined to be used for longer projects. Depending on your location and your site conditions, coconut logs will have life span of 2-to-5 years until they biodegrade.

Coir Log Features

• Inner material: Coir mattress fibers
• Outer material: Coir twine
• Coir twine to connect coir fiber logs

Other advantages of coir fiber logs include their wide variety of uses for different projects and applications. Coir fiber logs are best used for environmentally sensitive areas that suffer from erosion. Coconut logs are usually simple to install and will biodegrade completely. Depending on your site conditions, a typical coir fiber log will last anywhere from 2-to-5 years. This lifespan of this natural erosion control product will allow for the growth of natural vegetation, giving plants time to develop deep root systems, while building into the surrounding typography.

Coir Log Benefits

• Will hold seeds and saplings in place
• No chemical treatment required
• Can be permeated by water and air

When it comes to stabilizing environmentally sensitive areas, growing vegetation and enriching the soil and ecosystem, you can't go wrong with coconut fiber coir logs.

Coir fiber logs are used wherever slope stabilization and erosion control are needed. This can include construction sites, environment restoration projects, and riverbank stabilization and channel restoration projects. In areas with medium waterflow, coir fiber logs are great erosion control tools.

Coir fiber logs can be used for the following applications and locations:

• Dam Construction Sites
• Highway and Railway Embankments
• Ski Slopes and Lifts
• Pipeline Construction Sites
• Wetlands Restoration

Coconut fiber coir logs are often used in mining operations, construction projects, and retention ponds. In order to meet your specific project requirements, you can connect coconut logs with coir twine.

Coconut logs erosion control are dense solutions and are designed for more permanent erosion control measures. They are considered more permanent measures, depending on your site conditions. These robust but natural properties of the fiber logs lend themselves to the protection of environmentally sensitive areas.

For more information on our coir erosion control products or geotextiles, see our other erosion control pages.