Soil erosion is problematic. You don’t want your yard ending up in your neighbor’s yard or in the middle of the street. Luxury Landscape Supply has all of the supplies you need to build retaining walls to prevent your soil from eroding. Knowing how soil erodes can help you prevent it from happening. Let’s talk about the causes of soil erosion below, all of which can be prevented with the proper retaining walls throughout your property.
Water
The number one cause of soil erosion is water. Rainfall for an extended period can cause your soil to get so wet that it flows away from your yard because it has loosened. Flooding also causes this, especially flash-flooding. You need to build retaining walls around your property to keep the water from mixing with your soil and then causing it to run off at the property, especially where the property has inclines.
Wind
Wind carries loose soil with it just like water does. Wind can take the soil in your yard and displace it all over the place. This is called dry soil erosion. This being said, a combination of wind and water, such as during hurricane or tropical storm conditions, will also blow your soil off your property and into the street or elsewhere. Who would’ve thought that wind could be a cause of soil erosion!
Ice
We don’t really need to worry about ice here in Lawrenceville, but it bears listing since we are talking about the causes of soil erosion. For those who live in areas that have freezing winters, the ice turns into water once it melts and, voilà, you have soil eroding off your property. The wet soil will run off your property the same way it does when it rains excessively.
Gravity
Gravity helps the other three causes of soil erosion listed above. If your property has even minor slopes or hills, when you’ve got rain, wind, or ice, the soil is going to erode downhill. Depending on how steep your property is, you may even end up with a muddy avalanche that is difficult to clean up and can cause damage to your home or your neighbor’s home if it eroded onto his or her property.
As we said above, the best way to stop soil erosion is retaining walls. Luxury Landscape Supply in Lawrenceville, GA, has all of the supplies you need to build retaining walls around your property to prevent your soil from eroding and running off.