Water Level Monitoring
In 2018, ETE was chosen by Collier County to develop and implement the baseline data collection for the Collier County Watershed Improvement Project. ETE authored a monitoring plan for the project that included installation of 60 water level monitoring wells in the Picayune Strand State Forest (PSSF) and Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (RBNERR). ETE installed all 60 wells in 2019. As data is collected over the next year, it will be fed into models that will assist in design of various water diversion structures.
Vegetation Monitoring
As part of the ongoing monitoring, ETE installed 60 vegetation monitoring transects in habitat areas around the monitoring wells. Vegetation transects will track habitat changes over time, allowing adaptive management of the water control structures.
60
Monitoring Wells
180
10m x 10m Vegetation Plots
360
1 m quadrats
29,000
Acres
Water Quality Monitoring
During monitoring activities, ETE collects surface water samples from twenty (20) of the well locations. The primary objective of the water quality monitoring is to assess project-related changes in total nitrogen and total phosphorus. The data will allow assessment of these changes in the project area and Rookery Bay receiving waters within the overall project footprint. Samples collected at the inflow and outflow ends of the project will provide the data to assess inflow and outflow nutrient concentration differences. Water quality data collected in the receiving waters of Rookery Bay will assess salinity changes as a result of the project.
Featured Projects
Collier Rod & Gun Club at the PreserveAugust 29, 2023 - 3:12 pm
Babcock RanchFebruary 25, 2020 - 5:09 pm
Collier County Watershed Improvement ProjectJune 30, 2019 - 5:07 pm
