Over the last few months, many of you who have driven by Bobby Jones Park have noticed the rapid development of the new golf course as the turf grows in on the greens and fairways and the sand traps take shape. What you can’t see from the road at this point is the creation of [...]
The Healthy Pond Collaborative-Sarasota is pleased to announce that it just completed its second year with a healthy pond program in Sarasota County that advised forty local communities how to maintain a healthy stormwater pond and provided $40,000 in grants to qualified participants that created over six miles of newly planted pond shoreline that will [...]
Willow Brook is a community in Sarasota that was built between 2000 and 2002 with 54 residences and a population of about 150. Their stormwater detention ponds are now over twenty years old and some enhancement is needed to help control bank erosion. To learn more about an ongoing healthy pond maintenance program, John Hawke, [...]
The 2023 Watershed Summit held June 21-22 at the Charlotte Harbor Event & Conference Center in Punta Gorda shown above featured a number of experienced speakers pointing to the increasing concerns about the effect of excess nutrients in stormwater on the quality of our waterways and the alarming impact on seagrass. The two-day program was [...]
Are you having trouble with ailing stormwater detention ponds with unsightly algal growth or worse costly eroding banks? If so, you should contact us to schedule a screening of our Healthy Pond PowerPoint presentation. It will show your community how to properly care for your ponds to minimize algal growth and help prevent costly bank [...]
During the month of January Governor Ron DeSantis announced funding for several environmental initiatives. On January 10th the Governor signed Executive Order 23-06 (Even More Now for Florida’s Environment). Key provisions of the order include directing the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to: Secure $3.5 billion over the next four years for Everglades restoration and [...]
The strong popular response to the growing number of microforest projects in communities from Parrish to Venice continues to present more opportunities for the replacement of inefficient turf grass with high-performance microforests to help improve the quality of our local waterways. Microforests absorb much more stormwater and filter more excess nutrients than turf grass. In [...]
