Earth Tech Environmental has been providing the turbidity monitoring services for the Wiggins Pass and Water Turkey Bay dredging projects occurring over the past 2 months. The project is being done for Collier County, alongside Florida Dredge and Dock, Inc. (the contractor) and Humiston & Moore Engineers (the coastal engineering firm). The environmental monitoring is […]
Earth Tech Environmental has taken their fieldwork underwater with a new project in Charlotte County. The Charlotte County Reef Monitoring project requires leaving our boots back at the office and replacing them with fins. The scope of the services includes monitoring fish populations, by season, on artificial reefs in the Gulf of Mexico and Charlotte […]
ETE has been awarded a contract renewal for Babcock Ranch, adding approximately 1000 additional acres to the habitat we manage. The Babcock Ranch project entails land management and mitigation restoration activities that includes exotic vegetation eradication, preserve maintenance, littoral plantings, GIS mapping for exotics and wildlife, and field boundary delineation. Earth Tech Environmental already provides […]
ETE is honored to be on the team selected for design and permitting of the Golden Gate Golf Course. The winning consulting team included Davidson Engineering, ETE, Populous, and Parker-Mudgett & Smith Architects. Earth Tech and Davidson Engineering worked with Collier County during the purchase process and provided due diligence services such as environmental assessments […]
ETE recently conducted a multi-day gopher tortoise excavation at the Collier County Resource Recovery Park, where 75 burrows were excavated and 10 individuals were collected and relocated to their new homes. Gopher Tortoise Agents Auston Germano and Jeremy Sterk spearheaded the large-scale endeavor, with assistance of recently certified agent, Andrew McAuley. This mass operation has […]
Campbell Peck is an ETE ecologist who does a variety of fieldwork for Earth Tech Environmental, ranging from protected species surveys, water sampling, and wetland determinations. Now he can officially branch out and take his talents to Florida’s coastal ecosystems! Campbell has recently obtained his Six-Pack Captain’s License to use for marine operations. Per definition, […]
Droning is a key tool in the environmental industry in today’s world, and assists many of the services we offer. Some services that utilize drones include projects that require aerial photography, project progression images, habitat mapping, exotic vegetation coverage, site analysis, and sea grass surveys. Some examples of these uses include: Going out before projects […]
Andrew McAuley is an ETE ecologist that does a wide variety of fieldwork for Earth Tech Environmental, ranging from protected species surveys, water sampling, Phase I’s, and wetland determinations. Now he can officially add another to the list. Andrew has recently become a FWC Authorized Gopher Tortoise Agent. This allows them to survey, trap, mark, […]
Earth Tech Environmental recently completed a seagrass monitoring survey for the future dredging project that will encompass the channel from Wiggins Pass down to Water Turkey Bay. This monitoring project was implemented to help the dredging company prepare for what they need to do help avoid impacts to important resources, such as seagrass, throughout the […]
This September, ETE assisted Collier County Coastal Zone Management in reinstalling two Canoe Trail Markers in Clam Bay. These 32 markers help kayakers, canoers, and paddleboarders navigate their way through the mangroves of Clam Bay. These trail markers can be displaced by hurricanes, repeated boater hits and human interaction, or naturally through […]
