Brazos River Levee Toe Protection
LJA Job No. B1022-1002

The strategy involves positioning more enormous stone boulders at the river bank toe to allow them to fill in eroded areas caused by minor erosion, thereby providing stone toe protection. This setup aims to enhance the conveyance of flood flows through the bend in the Brazos River and the SH 99 bridge structure by reconstructing the bank. The benefits of the improved hydraulics are to mitigate scouring and erosion, prevent accelerated bank loss, and ensure long-term stability. To minimize environmental impacts, the toe of the reconstructed bank would maintain a consistent geometric curve along the bank, with efforts made to align it with the existing bank toe. Raito used appropriate materials and techniques up the bank toe to stabilize and protect the river bank from the erosive forces of flood flows.