An Introduction to Erosion Control

A Joint Publication from Earth Works Institute, the Quivira Coalition, and Zeedyk Ecological Consulting.

This document describes erosion control techniques, such as those used for several demonstration sites in the Galisteo watershed as part of the Galisteo Watershed Restoration Project –phase 2 (2002-2005). This project was sponsored by the New Mexico Environment Department with financial support under Clean Water Act Section 319(h) administered by the US Environmental Protection Agency. The project protected surface water quality in New Mexico waters by reducing nonpoint source pollution of the waters of the Galisteo Creek. Introduction to Erosion Control is an illustrated field guide for the general promotion of erosion control techniques. It is designed to be used by a broad audience that includes project managers, government of- ficials, participants of educational workshops and field tours, along with contractors and volunteers (during installation of structures). This field guide is not to be used or interpreted as a design manual. Three-thousand five-hundred copies were printed in the first edi- tion, three-thousand in the second.