Storm-Tex Services Assists Central America with Its Erosion and Sediment Control Issues

SPRING, Texas - Nov. 4, 2014 - PRLog -- October 2014

Guatemala- During the Bi-Annual meeting of the Iberoamerican Chapter of the International Erosion Control Association, Storm-Tex Services President, Brad Flack, lectured about methods and materials used to help control erosion and the movement of sediments. With all of Central America being volcanic, the soils are very fertile but also very mobile. This leads to great issues of erosion and subsequently they suffer frequently from landslides and slope failures. This conference, or congress as they call it, had around 180 attendees from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Brazil, Argentina and even as far away as Spain. The field trip was to see a 40 mile section of the Pan American highway which is currently under construction. This highway runs from Mexico to Columbia and will be viaduct to move people and goods between South America and North America and all points in between. To learn more about Brad Flack see the Storm-Tex website at Storm-Tex.com (http://www.storm-tex.com).

Costa Rica- A cadre of professionals, including Brad Flack, President of Storm-Tex Services, and others from Costa Rica, Panama, Argentina, Columbia and even Spain were invited to be special guest lecturers at the Costa Rican Distance Education State University (Universidad Estatal Distancia). They presented a 2 day course of lectures aimed at various methods, materials and genres of erosion and sediment control. Over 200 students were in attendance with some viewing from locations across Central America via live internet broadcast. The cadre of lecturers were then taken to view Poás Volcano where both erosion and the movement of sediments are big issues.

See it on video: http://youtu.be/bgrEn9Od-Jo