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J.E.B. (Jim's Environmental Boat)
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Key Benefits
- Can easily plant an acre in 2 days
- Plants in 2-5 feet of water
- Plants units bare root or in peat pots
Capabilities
- Requires less man power and chances of injury
- Has a 50-60% survival with only one mop up diver behind vessel
- When used in conjunction with Fertigation it can easily establish new seagrass beds
Reference Accounts
- Lassing Park- St. Petersburg, Florida Mechanical planting and Fertigation
- Durante Park- Longboat Key, Florida DEP Rose Poyner
- FMRI- Tampa Bay area hand planting VS mechanical (Summer 2002)
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| Sediment Tubes (Prop Scars)
US Patent # 6,493,990B1
Key Benefits
- Replace sediment where propellers have chopped through seagrass beds
- Allows grass to grow horizontal to recover scars
- keeps sediment loss from tidal exchange from making scar larger
Capabilities
- Able to repair thousands of linear feet per day
- Cost less than putting fill sediment directly in scar
- Able to deploy with minimal water turbidity increase
Reference Accounts
- NOAA--Florida Keys test at Lignumvatae Key
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M.U.T.V. (Mega Unit Transplant Vessel)
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Key Benefits
- Able to transplant 60 square feet of seagrass and 10-12 inches of sediment each trip
- moves seagrass and entire ecosystem to new location
- Department of Environmental Protection approved transplanting method
Capabilities
- Moves more units per day than 20 people working 10 hours transplanting by traditional methods
- Able to plant in 2 feet of water
- Removes seagrass from up to 5 feet underwater
Reference Accounts
- Durante Park- Longboat Key, DEP-- Rose Poyner
- Port Manatee- 5.33 Acres moved to allow for new shipping births
- Isle of Wight- Ocean City Maryland, Army Corp Of Engineers Transplanted Eelgrass, and all units have survival and growing after 2 months monitoring
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| Aquatic Fertigator
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Key Benefits
- Growth formula to enhance growth of damage seagrass
- improves sediment quality
- does not damage the environment due to its natural ingredients
Capabilities
- Able to inject acres of seagrass beds per day
- Also has manual hoses and nozzles to inject by hand special areas not accessible by boat
- Allows seagrass to grow in areas that are not normally suitable for vegetation
Reference Accounts
- McKay Bay- Tampa, Florida Seagrass units surviving where seagrass has not grown for many years
- Lassing Park- St. Petersburg, Florida
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Seagrass Ponds (land grown)
Key Benefits
- Seagrass grown on land using "floaters" picked up in area
- Seagrass can be monitored for proper harvest
- No permit needed to remove this grass since it is grown on private proerty, provides excellent source for mitigation needs
- Seagrass is injected with SAGE to promote faster growth
Capabilities
- Plant 1000's of acres with only floater material after grown in
- Adaptable to J.E.B. planting method for mechanical planting
- Creates habitat and ecosystems more rapidly due to growth regulator and carbon exchange
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Vessel is currently under construction
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S.T.V. (Sediment Transport Vessel)
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Key Benefits
- Uses special bucket for placing sediment into trench or blowout
- Able to deploy 1/2 yard of sediment every 4 minutes
- Turbidity is kept at a minimal during sediment installation
Capabilities
- Able to transport 5 yards of sediment fill to location per trip
- Also can transport sediment tubes to location to top dress blowout or trench
- Travels in as little as 2 feet of water fully loaded
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