As you have read in the past few months, the Healthy Pond Collaborative (HPC) created by a major grant from the Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation has been very busy responding to inquires from local communities interested in getting some help enhancing their ailing stormwater ponds. With this planting season for aquatic plants virtually over, [...]
The response to the announcement last month of the launch of the Healthy Pond Collaborative created by the major grant from the Charles and Margery Barancik Foundation has been very gratifying. Over twenty different communities have contacted START or one of the other partners in the collaborative to request an assessment of the health of [...]
The Healthy Pond Collaborative that we introduced to you in last month’s E-Newsletter was officially launched on September 15th with a press conference held by the Charles and Margery Barancik Foundation at Selby Gardens. Teri A Hansen. President and CEO of the Barancik Foundation, welcomed the audience and opened the proceedings by explaining the growing [...]
START’s October commendation for exemplary pond enhancement work recognizes the Willow Brook Community in Sarasota, Florida. Willow Brook was built during 2000 and 2001 with 54 homes housing 91 residents. The community has two stormwater ponds that were beginning to cause some concern with noticeable erosion on the banks and an unsightly algal bloom spreading [...]
START is very pleased to announce the formation of an important new three-year water quality partnership known as the Healthy Pond Collaborative. Funded by a major grant from Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation, the Healthy Pond Collaborative includes START, the Sarasota County Neighborhood Environmental Stewardship Team (NEST) Program, University of Florida IFAS Extension Sarasota County, [...]
START is pleased to announce an exciting new water quality partnership with the Sarasota Bay Rotary Club, Veterans for Common Sense Fund, Inc. and the Florida Native Plant Society that will be known as the Sarasota Urban ReForesters (SURF). The objective of the partnership is to help replace the urban forests that have been largely [...]
With the growing concern about the high level of excess nutrients in our waterways, START is launching the Neighborhood Nutrient Watch (NNW) Program. The initial effort was inaugurated on Saturday, November 2nd via a partnership with Sarasota County’s Neighborhood Environmental Stewardship Team (NEST) and the initiative of the Las Palmas neighborhood. Looking to help restore [...]
