SSCS's viscous drag Frond Systems were judged in 1996 to be:

"Environmentally acceptable - the sandbank contours follow and blend into the river or seabed, and does not affect marine life or vegetable growth or fishing"
~ Dr Krystian W. Pilarczyk, Road and Hydraulic Engineering Division, Rijkswaterstaat,
Delft & Dr Ryszard B. Zeidler, Institute of Hydro-Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences.

SSCS has received approvals for the use and deployment of its Scour Control Systems from:

• UK Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries;
• UK Department of Transport (Marine Directorate);
• US Corps of Engineers;
• British National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations;
• UK National Rivers Authority (now Environment Agency);
• Hydraulic Engineering Division, Rijkswaterstaat, Netherlands;
• Inst. of Hydro-Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences; and over thirty major Offshore Oil & Gas companies.
  

All Scour Control Systems designed and supplied by SSCS are well proven, and are endorsed by commercial fishermen and have been approved as environmentally acceptable. The SSCS Scour Protection Systems are not only "environmentally friendly" but they have a positive, albeit minor, effect on fisheries enhancement. In the presence of heavy fishing effort (such as in the North Sea), where trawling of near-shore nursery areas results in high mortalities, the Frond Systems provide a degree of food, shelter from predators, spawning habitat and nursery ground for a whole range of commercially important species.

Quality Assurance. SSCS works strictly to quality procedures and BSEN ISO 9000 (SSCS is assessed by Lloyds Register Quality Assurance - LRQA).