Cotton Bests Other Spray-On Erosion Control Mulches

Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 23:28 in Earth & Climate

Agricultural engineers have developed the erosion control industry's first cotton hydromulch "spray-on blanket." Hydromulch is the bright-green mulch used in spray-on slurries that cover bare lands at construction sites and roadside projects, to prevent erosion until vegetation can be established. In the past, hydromulches were made mostly from wood and paper byproducts.

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