® The erosion of highway shoulders and embankments caused by direct runoff from impervious road paving is a widespread problem for federal, state, and local departments of transportation. Highway shoulders are vulnerable to erosion as soon as the finished grade is completed. This vulnerability continues until vegetation becomes fully established, which can often take from one to three years. When faced with this situation, the Missouri Department of Transportation (MODOT) selected American Excelsior Company's Curlex I QuickGRASS to protect the highway shoulders along Route 370 north of St. Charles, MO. The Route 370 project, a three mile stretch, included major grading, paving, and reclamation work. Because the new highway was built in the Missouri River floodplain, fill material

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