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Contract Award – Golden Gate Golf Course

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…
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Collier County Resource Recovery Park Gopher Tortoise Relocation

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…
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Water Turkey Bay Seagrass Monitoring

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…
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Clam Bay Canoe Trail Marker Reinstall

  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…
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Clam Bay Seagrass Monitoring

Earth Tech Environmental recently went out to Clam Bay to conduct annual seagrass monitoring. Seagrass is an ecologically valuable resource because it helps stabilize the sea floor, provides food and habitat for marine organisms, helps maintain…
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The Value of Native Plants

  What do creeping oxeye, Caesarweed, and golden dewdrops all have in common?     If you said that they are all beautiful plants you would be…WRONG! Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and while these plants may…
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Staff Highlight – Certified Environmental Scientist, Auston Germano

Auston Germano is one of Earth Tech Environmental’s ecologists who puts his boots in about everything, but specializes in gopher tortoises, preserve management, and vegetation monitoring.   Auston has recently attained a Certified…
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Collier County Comprehensive Watershed Improvement Plan

Earth Tech Environmental has been busy in the field working on the Collier County Comprehensive Watershed Improvement Plan (CCCWIP), a massive, collaborative effort to redirect and restore the historical flow of water to Naples and Rookery Bay.…
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Progress Update

Construction continues on the Collier County Sports Complex & Events Center.  The City Gate phase of the property has been cleared and the majority of the onsite lake has been excavated.  ETE continues to provide environmental permitting…
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Contract Award

ETE has been awarded a new 3 year contract to continue as the biological monitors for the Clam Bay Estuary.  We have been the biological monitors for that last 3 years.  Our monitoring services include: Mangrove Monitoring Exotic &…