This IECA Design Standard is intended to guide designers on the purpose, design, material selection, installation, and maintenance of a silt fence when used as a temporary sediment control barrier for sheet flow applications to minimize sediment transport from a disturbed area susceptible to erosion.
Silt Fence Design Standard.pdf
Silt Fence Literature Review.pdf
Design Tool: http://www.eng.auburn.edu/research/centers/auesctf/tools/siltspread.html
Developed by the IECA Standards and Practices Committee.
