14 Monitoring Blog Camino De Pucara Erosion Control Minga

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The comunities of Malinguapamba/Pucara have moved ahead with their own erosion control project in December 2012 applying lessons learned with Engineers without Borders (EWB) in October 2012 and using some 1,500-2,000 leftover plants from their vivero (plant nursery) after the EWB Minga effort. The project stabilizes most of ~ 2 km roadway between Malinguapamba and Pucara, including some incredibly steep slopes 100% and greater.

Visual estimate is greater than 90% success rate, generating big smiles for Ignacio Sacotoro, my guide for the day. The slopes are truely STEEP! as in vertigo-steep!

Other photos here document previous "BMPs" including drainage and good use of yucca to stabilize slopes.

NOTE that i saw several other sites where the community is using vivero plantings and erosion control techniques to stabilize slopes, especially along roadways.

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