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Silt fence has high failure rates on linear projects. It has always been a challenge from both the performance, and the maintenance aspects. Road work. Utility corridors. Pipeline right-of-way. These are sites where you are running ESC controls along a continuous grade for thousands of linear feet. Silt fence requires trenching, equipment and a crews. Structural failures persist from sediment and water weight overloading without a form of release other than over the top or through the trench itself. It also fails from external factors like wind, and exposure to UV. In simple principle these are these are common annoyances that drive constructors and regulators crazy. Silt fence, by design needs constant maintenance. And finally when a project is done and its time to eliminate that think that has annoyed us from the beginning, somebody has to pull it out and haul it to a landfill.BioWorm was built for exactly these sites.It is a nature-based filter sock - recycled wood fiber fill inside a hybrid netting designed to do its job and then disintegrate in place when the project is complete. No equipment needed to install. No removal required at the end. The netting disintegrates naturally through exposure to sunlight and rainfall. The fill material goes directly into the ground where it was always meant to end up.Independent testing per ASTM standards puts Our BioWorm's sediment retention rate at over 95%. It's another leader for us. OEKO-TEX certified netting. 100% made in the USA.Right now we are moving full truckloads of BioWorm at 36% off customer pricing. Each load keeps 36,000 pounds of recycled construction wood fiber out of landfills. That is not a marketing number. That is the math on what happens when a sustainable product moves at scale.If you are running a road project, a utility corridor or any linear site and you are still fighting silt fence, Bioworm is worth consideration, and can act as both a cost leader and a SUSTAINABLE solution. The Sustainable Alternative to Silt Fence.Meaningful Control MeasuresClean Water Clean World.

Silt fence was never a good solution. The construction industry just did not have a better one for a long time.It requires trenching. It requires equipment. It fails at the connections where two sections meet, and it fails on slopes where the runoff volume exceeds what a buried fabric edge can hold. And when the project is done, somebody pulls it out, rolls it up and sends it to a landfill. That is where a plastic product that was installed to protect the environment ends up. In the ground or in a truck headed to the same place.We built Siltworm because we were homebuilders who got tired of the same failure on the same sites. Recycled construction wood fiber inside a filter sock. No trenching. No equipment. Installs faster than silt fence, performs better than silt fence and at the end of the project goes directly into final grade. No landfill. No waste stream. The product completes its lifecycle in the ground where it was always meant to end up.Independent testing per ASTM 7351 puts Siltworm's sediment capture rate at 97% or better. That is not a claim. That is a standardized test result, that is an industry leader. The SUSTAINABLE alternative to silt fence is not a marketing idea. It is what happens when the people who have constructed and built. We were also the people who got tired of constant failure with an industry norm, that wasn't environmentally friendly. That's what we have consistently worked to replace.The Sustainable Alternative to Silt Fence.Clean Water Clean WorldMeaningful Control Measures

A single ESC violation can shut down a $500M build.Not slow it down. Shut it down. Work stops. Regulators show up. The GC is on the phone explaining to an owner why a project disturbing hundreds of acres somehow missed a basic sediment control requirement. I have seen it happen. The frustrating part is that it is almost always avoidable.The data centers, manufacturing facilities and mission-critical buildings going up across the country are some of the most complex construction projects in the world. Every trade is coordinated to the hour. Schedules are compressed. Owners have zero tolerance for delay. And somewhere in that complexity, erosion and sediment control gets treated as a line item instead of a compliance system.It is not a line item. It is a federally mandated requirement under the EPA. Miss it and you are not just paying a fine. You are explaining a project shutdown to an owner who trusted you with a $500M build.What we do at ECS | Erosion & Construction Services is position ourselves as a partner in that system from permit to final stabilization. SWPPP documentation, inspection support, ongoing maintenance. We provide the full scope, managed by people who understand commercial construction and sequencing.If you are managing a project at that scale and your current E&S sub is treating it like a residential subdivision, let's talk. The standard is different and so are the consequences of getting it wrong.

I have been thinking about the beginning this week.Before solar EPCs and data center projects and utility-scale sites disturbing thousands of acres. Before any of this was a company with two divisions and a national footprint, there was something else. It started in homebuilding. My business partner DJ Moore and I were building homes under Moore & Moore and the silt fence we were installing kept failing. Continuously. We were not unique. Every builder dealing with Indiana soil and Indiana weather was fighting the same thing. So we built something better. That first version of what became Siltworm was not a product launch. It was two guys on job sites who got tired of the same problem and decided to fix it.Our first major erosion control client came directly from relationships I had built in the production homebuilder as a production homebuilder. It was in a world before much of this existed. The work was there because the trust was already there.The residential and homebuilder work is still very much alive inside ECS | Erosion & Construction Services. Same type of clients, same type of sites. And, we have continued to build a much better operation around it. More services, tighter systems, a team that has genuinely seen it all on Indiana and Illinois subdivisions. That work never stopped being important to us. It is also what made everything else possible. The years of getting residential ESC right, the compliance rhythms, the inspector relationships, the discipline of doing it correctly on every single site, gave us the credibility and the foundation to grow into commercial GCs, solar EPCs and Data Center projects that require a completely different level of capability and complexity. You have to earn the right to the harder work. We earned it here.Some weeks send you back to the beginning. This has definitely been one of those weeks.#CleanWaterCleanWorld#MeaninfulControlMeasures

A number of years ago, general contractors represented a small fraction of what we did.

A couple of weeks ago we announced a new product in our Siltworm line-up: High Visibility Orange Siltworm Filter Socks.

by Joe Moore

On paper, most SWPPPs look solid. In the field, they often break down quickly.

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