Rip Rap

B&R Construction Installs Rip Rap for Shoreline Erosion Control

Rip Rap Erosion Control on Shoreline

Rip-rap is the placement of large rocks or coarse stone along the water’s edge of a bank or shoreline to accomplish erosion control.

Rip-rap blends into the landscape and has a lower installed cost than wood or steel-pile seawall construction.

Contact-B-R-Construction

Rip Rap Erosion Control in a back yard with lake

The price of rip-rap placement depends on access to the project site and distance to the nearest rock source. It also depends on how much other work, such as clearing or earthwork, is required.

Environmentally Friendly Lakefront

Properly-chosen rock can be an environmentally-friendly landscape design element with lakefront rip rap.

The landscape texture of the rock used for rip rap adds a natural look, yet a defined edge, to your waterfront.

Insects and animals can use it for habitat, although rip-rap is not a barrier to organisms moving into or out of the water.

Rip Rap Erosion Control with a Pier in Illinois

Ornamental vegetation material planted in the rip-rap can hide it, providing a naturalized look along with the erosion control.

Although not as stable or long lasting as Steel Shorewalls, rip rap can help stabilize a shoreline from wave action and erosion due to run off.

Rip rap can make an attractive shoreline, integrating existing trees and plants.

B&R Construction

Boat Docks & Shorewalls
1325 East Park Street
Taylorville, IL 62568

Phone (217) 287-7955
Cell (217) 412-3796