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ANGRY
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 METHODS
TO CONTROL
SOIL EROSION

ANGELO P. BARAZON
Grade 5- Quezon

MAAM IRISH MANIO

Science Teacher

STRIP CROPPING
Strip

cropping is a very effective and inexpensive method for controlling soil erosion. Strip cropping is a
combination of contouring and crop rotation in which alternate strips of row crops and soil conserving crops
(sods) are grown on the same slope, perpendicular to the wind or water flow. When soil is detached from the
row crops by the forces of wind or water, the dense soil conserving crops trap some of the soil particles and
reduce wind translation and/or runoff.

CONTOURING
Contouring entails performing all tillage and planting of crops on or near the same elevation or "contour." It
is applicable on relatively short slopes up to about 8 percent steepness with fairly stable soils. By planting
across the slope, rather than up and down a hill, the contour ridges slow or stop the downhill flow of water.
Water is held in between these contours, thus reducing water erosion and increasing soil moisture.
Contouring's impact on annual soil loss rates vary with slope steepness, but typically it's reduced about one
half from up - and - down hill farming when the slope is between 4 and 7 percent.

TERRACING
Terracing is a

combination of
contouring and
land

shaping in which earth embankments, or ridges, are designed to intercept runoff water and
channel it to a specific outlet. Terraces reduce erosion by decreasing the steepness and length of
the hillside slope and by preventing damage done by surface runoff.

FIELD AND GULLY PLANTING

A gu
lly
or

grade stabilization structure is an embankment or spillway built across a drainageway to prevent

soil erosion. Grade stabilization structures are especially important in areas of Minnesota where
sediment loading from gully erosion is a major water quality concer n.

WINDBREAKS
A windbreak (shelterbelt) is a plantation usually made up of one or more rows of trees or shrubs planted in
such a manner as to provide shelter from the wind and to protect soil from erosion. They are commonly
planted in hedgerows around the edges of fields on farms. If designed properly, windbreaks around a home
can reduce the cost of heating and cooling and save energy.

GULLY CONTROL DAMS

Gully
plugs, also called check dams, are mainly built to prevent erosion and to settle sediments and pollutants.
Furthermore, it is possible to keep soil moisture due to infiltration.