Lakes & Inland Waterways

Lakes and waterways serve as hotspots for boating, travel, swimming, and pleasure. To help protect the bodies of water and surrounding land, communities may build river walks, seawalls, bulkheads, block retaining walls, and canals. These bodies of water can be used nearly every day, making it necessary for these products to perform well and be safe for everyone around.

Without proper drainage, the public river walks, canals, or lake seawalls may not perform correctly and can lead to speeding up erosion behind the structure. Rivers and lakes are subject to floods that happen every year, this change in water level displaces soil particles and can create substantial hydrostatic pressure on manmade infrastructures. These inland bodies of water also collect much of the ground water runoff from storms. The rainwater will travel down through the earth, taking the fastest route to the nearest body of water. If a concrete wall, bulkhead, or sheet piling wall does not have the proper solutions to release the water, it will create its own opening, move around the soil, or sit still trapped behind a structure. All three of these problems can speed up the failure of retaining walls.