silt fence maintenance on construction sites after rain

Silt fence is easy to ignore when the weather is dry. After a real rain, it tells you quickly whether the site is being managed or just passing the morning walk. A fence that was fine last week can be undercut, flattened by runoff, buried with sediment, or pulled loose where trucks keep brushing it. I have seen crews treat erosion control like a setup task: install it once, take a photo, move on.…