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PipeBlocks

Use readily available double wall pipe cut in half
Twice the distance with one piece of pipe
One PipeBlock every 10 lineal feet, 2 for a twenty foot length One on the joint, one in the middle
Excavate ditch to desired flow line plus minor undercut for pipe and concrete Tolerance is lenient since
adjustments can be made anytime after placement
Set pipe section overlapping joints, gaskets not necessary
Place a PipeBlock over joint easily with a quality four point lifting device supplied
Place middle PipeBlock and move to next pipe section excavation and placement
Special upstream, downstream, and end block elements available
Backfill earth to sides of pipe with normal caution to prevent pushing
Grade back slopes of ditch roughly until rain and time fill all voids around pipe Pipe will not displace during
this process
Final grade slopes and coverings for erosion control and the job is completed
PipeBlocks with normal flows create repetitive and consistent turbulence every ten feet which allows
    sedimentation to settle in the low areas between the blocks. These areas can be visually seen to actually
    grade the sedimentation by size over short lengths of PipeBlock placement. Within 100 lineal feet, a majority
    of eroded sediment can be seen to have been filtered out of the water. Clean these areas by hand, vacuum, or
    side bucked excavation has proven to be fast, easy, and without destruction of the drain system.
PipeBlocks with low flows have been observed to oxygenate the water which would effect bacteria action
with organic materials. The water environment in one flowing situation has been observed to promote the
propagation and growth of minnows.
Pipeblocks at full flow can be observed to concentrate water flow to the center
Pipeblocks allow flows above the system while concentrating energy to the center reducing side back erosion
due to the mechanics of the turbulence cycles
Pipeblocks stop bottom and side bank erosion
Pipeblocks stop ditch bank sloughing
Pipeblocks maintain a higher ground water table due to not allowing earth water to flow into the lower
elevation of the ditch
Pipeblocks can be engineered to manipulate stream flow, wave action, and the lining of shallow swales
PipeBlocks are as much an environmental deterrence of source point erosion as they are a energy and flow
control of the dynamics of fluids