Scour Protection Mats

Scourstop transition mats are an engineered proven bio technical alternative to traditional hard armor systems.

Scour protection mats.

This mat offers much better protection than a vegetation mat or riprap. Flexible concrete mats fcm consist of concrete blocks connected by stainless steel cables. A build up of sediment sand embankment as a result can help maintain the integrity of the structures resulting in increased stability and protection from scour. Combined with a soft armor cover along with deep soil earth anchors the system will protect soil from severe erosion.

Scour protection mats hampshire. Where scour or free span is a concern at the edges of subsea structures a bespoke frond system can be fitted to encourage self burial in the most exposed critical areas. The scourstop system offers greater protection than. Fcms keep the underlying soil in place to protect banks embankments and canals but also to protect underwater structures such as bridge piers and docks against scouring.

Fully interconnected mats protect underlying trms or erosion control blankets allowing low maintenance vegetation at pipe outfalls for outlet protection drainage ditches and swales instead of costly higher maintenance rip rap. Scourstop transition mats are manufactured of a semi rigid hdpe. Scour protection mats are a system which allows the installation to repair or protect the river bed from being eroded by water flow on bridges and structures. The geo mat geotextile mattress has been designed to provide extra benefits to those obtained from a normal concrete mattress.

Where pipelines cable and subsea structures are installed in fast running waters and cohesionless soils make up the seabed excessive scour can create serious structural or operational problems. Protect areas subjected to concentrated flows from scour and surface erosion with georunner mats. The sscs frond mats are used to provide planned and preventative scour protection for new subsea installations and to rectify scour encountered at existing facilties and provide the only permanent solution to scour available today. This extremely strong and durable product is used for massive erosion control.

The system is environmentally friendly in that the mats are sealed to prevent the grout material from escaping while the mat is being filled. The unique highly flexible uv stabilized shore max mat is designed with openings to allow vegetation establishment through the mat. It is made of a somewhat rigid hdpe. Sscs has been approved to iso 9001 2008 by lloyds register quality assurance ltd.

When combined with soft armor soil cover and deep soil earth anchors the scourstop system mechanically protects soil from severe scour and erosion. The scourstop transition mat is a patented bio technical alternative for standard hard armor systems.