Noah's Landscape Journal

Bioengineering solutions, Mike Yates from Salix

What Salix does:

• Water and flood management -> From managing waterflows in the mountains, to managing tide and waterflow
• Replacing hard engineering with soils and vegetation:

• Restoring lifeless & toxic environments

• Restoring natural processes

Hard engineering is usually the most common way to deal with changes in geomorphology, hydrology and ecology of rivers.

Hard engineering comes with a number of problems, such as High embodied Co2, high costs, etc.

Benefits of soil bioengineering:

• works with natural processes
• Improves water quality
• Environmental regulator approval

Bioengineering Products:

• Plants (Salix nurseries produce 3m plants/y, only seagrass nursery in the UK)

• Coir – Coconut Fibre -> Coir Rolls and Blankets are used as water barriers as a base for plants in wetlands

• Floating Islands -> Salix floating islands are made completely plastic free

Biomatrix is another manufactorer of floating island systems:

https://www.biomatrixwater.com/floating-ecosystems

• Pre-filled Rock solutions as a alternative solution to traditional X

• Rock bags are used for bigger scale solutions