4/10/2011 

Riverbank
erosion control
Gandhiv Kafle
Lecturer, IOF, Hetauda

WME 508: Soil and water conservation 
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Techniques
1. Temporary and emergency measures
2. Methods depending mainly on sprouting
brushwood
3. Riverbank stabilization by plantation
4. Solid structures

WME 508: Soil and water conservation engineering ‐ 
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Raunbaum method
} Use of whole trees
with dense and
well branched
trees along the
riverbank
} Reduces bank
erosion

WME 508: Soil and water conservation engineering ‐ 
by Gandhiv Kafle 

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Temporary groynes
} Placing whole trees
from the riverbank
at some angles to
the water flow
} Modifies sediments
and waterflow
velocity; controls
erosion on
riverbank
WME 508: Soil and water conservation engineering ‐ 
by Gandhiv Kafle 

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Techniques
} Temporary and emergency measures
} Methods depending mainly on sprouting
brushwood
} Riverbank stabilization by plantation
} Solid structures

WME 508: Soil and water conservation engineering ‐ 
by Gandhiv Kafle 

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Brushwood groynes
} Used in eroded
bank
} Layering of brushes
on trench, piled by
stones
} Protects eroded
river bank

WME 508: Soil and water conservation engineering ‐ 
by Gandhiv Kafle 

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Rip rap with cuttings

} Placed on the
slopy river bank to
reduce river
cutting

WME 508: Soil and water conservation engineering ‐ 
by Gandhiv Kafle 

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Combined stone and

brushwood piling
} Placed on the
slopy river bank to
reduce river
cutting

WME 508: Soil and water conservation engineering ‐ 
by Gandhiv Kafle 

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Techniques
} Temporary and emergency measures
} Methods depending mainly on sprouting
brushwood
} Riverbank stabilization by plantation
} Solid structures

WME 508: Soil and water conservation engineering ‐ 
by Gandhiv Kafle 

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Weirs
} Like checkdams in
gullies
} Breaks the speed
and direction of
flow

WME 508: Soil and water conservation engineering ‐ 
by Gandhiv Kafle 

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Solid groynes
} Concrete blocks
placed in some
angle to the
waterflow from the
riverbank
} Modifies
sedimentaiton and
water velocity;
reduces erosion
WME 508: Soil and water conservation engineering ‐ 
by Gandhiv Kafle 

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Spurs
} Short than solid
groynes
} Placed like groynes
} In various shapes
(t-head, round
nose, j-head etc.)

WME 508: Soil and water conservation engineering ‐ 
by Gandhiv Kafle 

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Planting of trees and shrubs

along riverbank

WME 508: Soil and water conservation engineering ‐ 
by Gandhiv Kafle 

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