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Cellular Confinement technology ( geocells ) are prominently supported and promoted as a recommended BMP by the USACE itself levee rehabilitation in USACE Technical Report REMR-GT-26, Innovative Methods for Levee Rehabilitation Edward B. Perry, September 1998 ( http :// www. dtic. mil / cgi-bin / GetTRDoc? AD = ADA354949 ).

Particular attention is given to the matter of surface erosion, overtopping prevention and protection of levee crest and downstream slope in which cellular confinement is promoted as the most advantageous BMP.

Reinforcement with geocells provides tensile force to the soil to better resist instability.