Concrete mats offer cost and time effective solution for drainage along roads and municipal works.
The impact from recent heavy rainfall and floods across Australia has left many of our local roads, major highways and drainage infrastructure damaged from the deluge.
Australian Concrete Mats (ACM) offer an innovative solution that is environmentally friendly, simple, and cost-effective, a Flexible Concrete Erosion Mat.
It is a simple concept; the erosion mat consists of concrete shapes embedded into a high strength polyester geogrid.
The spacings around each concrete shape give the concrete mat flexibility, enabling it to contour to the landscape and allow for vegetation to grow through the mat.
The vegetation that grows through the mat also helps to anchor the mat to the soil, while offering filtration of fine silt particles from entering the waterways.
UNSW Water Laboratory tests results have measured how the textured concrete helps to aerate and slow
the flow of water.
These features make them suitable during heavy rain or high flow events for table drains, swale drains, drainage channels and overflows.
They easily contour to the shape and slope of drains, around pipes, culverts, inlets and outlets.
Concrete mats also help to create a stable drivable surface, which makes them cost- effective and safe for council vehicles to mow and maintain the drains and embankment slopes. Unlike rip rap or loose rocks, our mats can be driven on without bogging and used on slopes up to 60 degrees!
Concrete mats are supplied in rolls that are easy to handle and quick to install, they can be easily lifted, placed, and unrolled onsite. They are installed in a matter of minutes with no special tools and use equipment usually already available on municipal projects.
Once laid down they start working right away!
This innovative mat offers stabilisation, erosion protection and a cost-effective sustainable solution for drainage issues.
For more information explore www.ConcreteMats.com.au
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