In allocation with the Kiawah Island's Lakes Management Department, Retention Pond Services removed added than 270,000 cubic anxiety of clay and debris from a botheration pond, convalescent baptize above and acceptable the biological diversity.
Wilmington, NC -- Retention Pond Services, Inc., an environmentally adeptness stormwater administration company, afresh completed an all-encompassing pond advance activity on Kiawah Island, in South Carolina. In allocation with the Kiawah Island Community Association's (KICA) Lakes Management Department, Retention Pond Services removed added than 270,000 cubic anxiety of clay and debris from the pond on Turtle Beach Lane, convalescent its aesthetics and functionality.
Sedimentation and clay abatement
This 2.7-acre pond was one of alone several ponds on Kiawah Island maintained at a altered baptize akin than the blow of the 115 pond system. It was abandoned and had no approved antecedent of water The activity was put out to bid in October 2007, and the acknowledged applicant was Retention Pond Services of Wilmington, North Carolina. Their akin of ability in above wetland remediation fabricated them a applicable ability for this job. We enjoyed alive with Mr. Shea and his agents on this different project. Kiawah Island has done an accomplished job of advancement their different ecosystems. We are appreciative that we were allotment of the apology team "This 2.7-acre pond was one of alone several ponds on Kiawah Island maintained at a altered baptize akin than the blow of the 115 pond system. It was abandoned and had no approved antecedent of water," said Norm Shea, Director of KICA's Lake Management Department, who manages the association's 115 ponds. "The Turtle Beach pond has accurate to be absolutely ambitious over the endure 10 years. We relied on condensate to ample this pond so if we didn't accept acceptable rain, we had to set up a ample alteration pump to ample it from addition pond. This was blatant and time consuming. The advance activity deepened it abundant that it could be angry in to the blow of the system, accouterment it now with a connected antecedent of water."
The bank Turtle Beach pond was created in the backward 1980s if a swamp willow bedeviled wetland was cleared. By 1991, amphibian frondescence absolutely bedeviled the pond from top to bottom. Several cher herbicide treatments were appropriate to abolish this abundant advance and again angle were abounding to accumulate the frondescence in check. The pond was maintained in this accompaniment with added stockings of tilapia and grass bother for about 10 years. A abiding aridity in 2000 alternating with an overgrowth of duckweed in the summer of 2003 resulted in a accident of about all the fish.
In 2004, application was accustomed to absterge the pond to accommodate added abyss and tie it in with the blow of the pond system. A analysis was commissioned to authorize the abuttals curve consistent in the pond accepting classified as a authoritative wetland with the Army Corps of Engineers. This allocation appropriate admittance approval from the Corps and South Carolina's Office of Coastal Resource Management (OCRM) in 2005.
Shea remarks, "The activity was put out to bid in October 2007, and the acknowledged applicant was Retention Pond Services of Wilmington, North Carolina. Their akin of ability in above wetland remediation fabricated them a applicable ability for this job."
Retention Pond Services began plan in January of 2008, starting with clarification baptize from the pond and allowance frondescence from the pond's edge. A Caterpillar 305 amphibian archaeologian cut the abatement canal to facilitate the draining. The pond was again ample out and almost graded. A brace of Caterpillar 324 cool continued ability excavators performed the majority of the sedimentation and clay abatement to access the abyss and baptize volume. The activity took 24 apparatus canicule and angled the accommodation of the pond, convalescent baptize above and acceptable the biological diversity.
"We enjoyed alive with Mr. Shea and his agents on this different project. Kiawah Island has done an accomplished job of advancement their different ecosystems. We are appreciative that we were allotment of the apology team," said Glen Garrett, President of Retention Pond Services.
About Kiawah Island:
Kiawah Island is a clandestine residential resort association amid just south of Charleston, South Carolina on the Atlantic Ocean. It is a 10,000-acre barrier island, 1.5 afar at its widest point, with over 10 afar of beachfront. Approximately 4,000 backdrop aural 13 adjacency villages and 28 administration associations accomplish up the island. The island's aboriginal developer accustomed the Kiawah Island Community Association (KICA) to administer and administer the business and acreage that contributes to the all-embracing ambient and acreage ethics of Kiawah Island. KICA maintains roads, lakes, landscaping, leisure trails and added infrastructures on the island.
About Retention Pond Services:
Retention Pond Services, Inc. is an all-embracing stormwater administration aggregation well-equipped to administer all facets complex with the aliment and remediation of stormwater BMP systems. These government-regulated BMPs are capital in the filtration of stormwater abounding from developed areas into streams and rivers, as they anticipate adverse pollutants from antibacterial advantageous baptize supplies. The Retention Pond Services' agents is comprised of awful trained, certified, and abreast stormwater specialists that accept federal, state, and bounded acquiescence regulations as able-bodied as the astringent ecology repercussions of ailing maintained stormwater systems. Based in Wilmington, NC, Retention Pond Services, Inc. operates in eleven states. Current projects cover pond renovations at golf courses, bank dredging and bank restoration, and absolute stormwater aliment and consulting for about 1,000 retail, commercial, and automated properties. For added information, appointment http://www.retentionponds.com.
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