Date of Service: 2012 to Present ETE’s North Naples Fire Control and Rescue District contract involves Fire Stations No. 44 and 46. In 2012, ETE ecologists conducted a field investigation to determine the presence of exotic plants and protected wildlife species for the purpose of resolving a Collier County code violation due to coverage of […]
Date of Service: 2009 to Present ETE ecologists have been providing various environmental and biological services at Florida Gulf Coast University since 2009. ETE ecologists provide field oversight and Eastern Indigo snake monitoring during mechanical mowing activities within preservation areas in accordance with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Permit and U.S. Fish and Wildlife […]
Date of Service: 2011 to Present Babcock Ranch & EarthSource Mine is an open contract that was initiated in 2011 to perform land management and mitigation restoration activities that includes exotic eradication, preserve maintenance, lake maintenance & littoral planting, mechanical removal of exotics, GIS mapping for exotics and wildlife, and field boundary delineation. Earth Tech […]
Date of Service: 2010 to Present In June 2010, Earth Tech Environmental ecologists were contacted by Kensington Park to address a Collier County notice of violation due to the excessive coverage of exotics within their preserves. ETE ecologists coordinated with the Florida Division of Forestry, South Florida Water Management District and Collier County Code Enforcement to […]
Another consulting service that ETE routinely provides to clients is water level monitoring. ETE installs shallow monitoring wells allowing communities and property owners to track groundwater levels in preserves or on vacant land. Water level data can be used as a tool in determining jurisdictional wetland limits or can be helpful in making water management or […]
ETE recently completed a large native vegetation planting job for Neal Communities at Coast Key North. ETE installed 1,000 1 gallon leather fern/cordgrass plants and 5,000 bare root pickerelweed, spike rush, & black needle rush within littoral zones, shorelines and retention areas around the community.
ETE has extensive experience conducting water sampling within existing residential communities. One of the most common criteria we sample for is Dissolved Oxygen (DO). We have conducted DO studies in several communities within Southwest Florida in order to evaluate the biological health of onsite lakes. DO readings can be useful in determining lakes that may benefit […]
Jeremy Sterk assisted staff from Collier County and the City of Naples in deployment of artificial reef modules in the Gulf of Mexico. The pyramid shaped modules were placed by crane at several artificial reef locations offshore. These modules will provide excellent habitat for fish and other reef life. Jeremy is an avid underwater photographer. […]
Earth Tech completed a restoration of a conservation easement impact area at Riverside Baptist Church in Fort. Myers. An adjacent property owner had impacted a portion of the church’s preserve. ETE re-graded the impacted area and planted a variety of native vegetation in order to restore it according to South Florida Water Management District criteria.
Earth Tech has two (2) professional mangrove trimmers (PMT) on staff to assist with trimming mangroves under provisions of Florida’s 1996 Mangrove Trimming and Preservation Act as found in sections 403.9321-403.9334 of the Florida Statutes (F.S.). According to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s (FDEP) website, the services of a PMT are required to qualify for […]
