Sustainable Geo-Textile, Gully Rehabilitation and Environmental Monitoring in Uyo Urban, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

The study focused on ‘’ Sustainable Geo-Textile, Gully Rehabilitation, Environmental Monitoring in Uyo Urban, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria’ was aimed at investigating the level of gully monitoring and rehabilitation in Uyo urban, the challenges facing monitoring and how such knowledge can translate into mitigating the level of risk residents within gully degraded environment faces from unprepared disaster eruption owing to poor environmental monitoring. 400 copies of questionnaires were distributed to the sampled communities and the result of the data was further subjected to empirical analysis using chi-square. The results of findings indicated a calculated value of 259.4 and a table value of 19.532, which by implication shows that there is a significant effect of gully erosion on livelihood of residents in Uyo LGA. Methods of rehabilitation were identified in the study and they included the use of vigilante, planting of trees/grasses, routine visiting and many others. In terms of the effect of gullies on livelihood, it was noted that gully erosion has a significant effect on the livelihood of local communities especially affecting food production through degradation of the land and decline in soil fertility. It has been revealed in the work that gully erosion pose a significant negative impacts on agricultural farmland, residential buildings, soil fertility, crop yield, environmental quality as well as socio-economic development. The author identified the challenges facing gully rehabilitation and monitoring and they included low funding, low interest on monitoring, lack of awareness, high cost of gully infrastructure and 40 respondents and weak policy implementation. Further findings revealed that the failure in monitoring newly formed and passive gullies have led to the proliferation and structural deformation in gullies parameter which ended up threatening human livelihood and infrastructures. However, recommendations were made to promote effective monitoring and rehabilitation for disaster occurrence such as sustainable farming, compensation of victims, routine visiting, the use of satellite remote sensing for monitoring, community vigilante, increment in allocation of ecological funds, integration of educationist, researchers and expertise in environmental project implementation.