Problem Erosion control on the east bank of an effluent pond in Quail Valley had been an ongoing struggle and concern for Missouri City officials and the Public Works Department. The pond is part of the Quail Valley Waste Water Treatment Plant, and through wastewater reclamation, the pond is used to water nearby fairways at the city-owned Quail Valley Golf Course. Over time, the pond bank’s minor erosion issues escalated to the extent that water was traveling through the bank’s subsurface soil, entering Stafford Run Creek. As a counter- measure, a portion of the troublesome pond bank was mud- jacked with cementitious slurry in an attempt to stabilize bank soils and cutoff water migration. Unfortunately, the solution was only temporary and city officials needed to find a more reliable

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