Previous Environmental Projects
Our firm has provided services and has been involved in the following projects:
We conducted a field evaluation and provided a biological assessment of the Town of Davie’s park site, its adjacent lake, and its shoreline areas. Additional field determinations for the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)’s wetland jurisdictional limits Clean Water Act Section 404 permitting were also provided.
Together with Broward County (BC) Department of Growth Management and Environmental Protection and USACE, we conducted a site assessment and wetland delineation in the area. We also did field evaluations and assistance in the preparation of grant applications for park development and environmental enhancement.
We provided natural system delineation, quality analysis, permitting, mitigation design and inspection, supervision, and construction services. Our team also did surveys of listed species and habitat suitability for site-use documentation.
Environmental Creation and Restoration Projects
Goldasich Environmental has been directly involved with the planning, design, permitting, construction, monitoring, and maintenance of many environmental projects during our more than 30 years of working in South Florida environments. These projects have included both freshwater and saltwater systems that are similar to the mangrove community. Specific projects involve the following:
Acquiring Large Quantities of Wetland Plants
Specific Services and/or Managing Specific Services (Environmental Construction and Protection of Adjacent Natural Areas)
The environmental enhancement projects that we managed are associated with the protection of adjacent natural areas, as well as the restoration and improvement of highly degraded or non-native communities. We did this to establish a system of natural areas that provide synergistic benefits.
We employ careful planning so that the overall schedule and adjacent high-quality areas are not negatively affected by restoration in nearby lands. Some of our notable projects are:
- Environmental construction management for this project is in the planning stages. This project includes planning for mitigation area phasing, planting time schedules, erosion protection features, and surface water protection elements.
- Similarly, environmental construction management for this project is in the planning stages. This project includes planning for mitigation area phasing, planting time schedules, erosion protection features, and surface water protection elements.
- Environmental construction management is essential for this site. However, due to the ongoing rock mining operation conducted within this 2,000-acre site and the need to protect adjacent high-quality natural resource areas, the project was not constructed.
- Areas to be protected include forested and herbaceous wetlands, native upland forest communities, and surface water lakes and canals. Listed species including the Audubon's Caracara, indigo snake, gopher tortoise, American alligator, snail kite, wood stork, and tricolor heron are also living in this area.
- Project management includes dock construction, seawall construction, stormwater management area construction, and protection of adjacent seagrass and important benthic resources in the Lake Worth Lagoon. This project also includes the construction of a seawall or wave break wall more than a mile from the nearest mainland shore in areas that were known to support seagrasses.
- We conducted construction management of the wall construction, inspection of the benthic substrate prior to wall placement, and relocation of any seagrasses that would be impacted by the wall. Additionally, seagrass inspections during construction were designed to protect and identify sites used by the West Indian manatee, sea turtles and the smalltooth sawfish.
- Project management includes dock construction, seawall construction, stormwater management area construction, and protection of adjacent seagrass and important benthic resources in the Lake Worth Lagoon. This project also includes the construction of a seawall or wave break wall more than a mile from the nearest mainland shore in areas that were known to support seagrasses.
- We conducted construction management of the wall construction, inspection of the benthic substrate prior to wall placement, and relocation of any seagrasses that would be impacted by the wall. Additionally, seagrass inspections during construction were designed to protect and identify sites used by the West Indian manatee, sea turtles and the smalltooth sawfish.
- This project has large numbers of high-quality fragmented forested and herbaceous wetlands that have to be protected as part of the permit. It was difficult to protect because of areas in high-quality mixed wetland and native upland forest ecosystems.
- To preserve these areas, we used heavy machinery working within and in nearby lands. Fortunately, we managed the construction and environmental elements of this project with no adverse impacts on existing natural systems or native resource areas.
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