The North End Lake in Port Elizabeth was in desperate need for rehabilitation due to extreme levels of water pollution.
The lake is very popular for activities such as power boating, canoeing and angling.
The high bacterial levels made the water unsafe for any recreational activities.
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality in Port Elizabeth assigned Kayalihle Trading as the main contractor for the rehabilitation of the lake.
Stormwater gabion filter ponds were installed at all stormwater inlets and outlets joining the lake.
The submerged gabions were filled with geotextile Bidim bags.
These bags were filled with a mixture of sand and activated charcoal for water purification and the removal of impurities and contaminants.
Small gabions of size 1 x 0.5 x 0.5 were used along the sides of the filter ponds as flower boxes.
These were filled with soil and water reeds planted in them to conceal the gabion structures and to serve as a natural filtration system.
All the gabions and geotextiles were supplied by P&P Plastics and Civils Pty Ltd. in Port Elizabeth.
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South African manufactured Class-A Galvanised or with Grey PVC coated Hexagonal woven mesh or Square Weldmesh baskets and mattresses.
Protect the integrity of your gabion basket installation with high-quality geotextiles between your gabion structures and the soil.
Sandbags are an ideal solution when it comes to soil erosion protection, and diverting floodwaters away from sensitive installations or homes.
These blankets promote vegetation growth when combined with your gabion structure and help retain the important topsoil.
Heavy rocks need heavy transport. Our Barrows were specially designed to transport our quality products.
Hexagonal woven mesh is the perfect product for rockfall mesh netting and to cover large areas of river mattresses quickly.
Fully made up Gabion baskets or mesh rolls/panels are offered for more flexible use on building or civil engineering construction sites.
This cylindrical-shaped sack gabion is filled to 75% capacity with rock and used in restricted areas or to act as foundation for gabion river structures.
Only need a small retaining wall up to 1.5m height? Why not use local rock with our small 300 x 300mm cross-section Gab-Bloc Gabion?
The smaller Garden Gabion can be used at home for terracing and smaller Gabion retaining walls, or even internal feature/ decorative walls, or raised garden beds.
We offer a custom designed, suited to feature aesthetically pleasing Gabion Planter feature which is sure to turn heads and get lots of interest.
These units are suitable for filling with earth, sand, gravel, crushed rock and other granular materials.
We supply non weathered rock for gabion and rip rap protection and feature structures, many colors are available, size 100-250mm.
We supply a tool kit that makes the installation process much easier and neater.