Add to ORKGUpon starting roadside construction work, construction crews must begin by ripping up a considerable amount of the ground. This process leaves areas such as roadside ditches without vegetation cover, which in turn leaves the soil bare and exposed to the elements such as heavy rains. When the rain hits this bare ditch, soil enters the water runoff and flows into ditch inlets. This soil is detrimental to sewer infrastructure as well as to the environment and must be avoided. At the Erosion Control Research and Training Center (ECRTC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, various tests were conducted to test the installation and effectiveness of ditch inlet protection products. These tests analyzed the ability of the products ...