Projects

Protected Species Surveys ~ Protected Species Relocations ~ Wetlands Mitigation Design ~ Wetlands Monitoring ~ Jurisdictional Wetland Delineation ~ Wetlands/Environmental Compliance ~ Environmental Assessments ~ Wellfield Monitoring ~ Benthic Sampling ~ Seagrass Studies ~ Development of Regional Impacts Assessments ~ Invasive Species Eradication ~ Mangrove Trimming ~ Computer Aided Drafting (CAD)

NSB Beach Multi-use Trail

The New Smyrna Beach Multi-use Trail is a 2.2-mile, 12-foot-wide asphalt path that stretches from West Pine Avenue to Sugar Mill Drive in New Smyrna Beach. Services included:
• Jurisdictional wetland delineation
• Environmental resource permitting assistance (State and Federal)
• Protected species transect surveys
• Gopher tortoise burrow surveys
• Gopher tortoise relocation permitting
• Supervised the backhoe excavation of burrows and off-site relocation of gopher tortoises
• Mitigation design and construction supervision
• Monitoring for compliance with State permit

Lake Wales Municipal Airport

This municipal airport project was for improvements to the Runway Safety Areas (RSA) and Runway Object Free Areas (ROFA) of Runway 06-24. Services included:
• Jurisdictional wetland delineation
• Environmental resource permitting assistance (State, Federal)

Port Orange Wellfield

BCS established the wetland monitoring stations in 2006 for compliance with the City’s consumptive use permit (CUP) and coordinated the installation of the shallow monitoring wells. BCS conducts the water level monitoring and reporting required for compliance with the CUP. Services include:
• Wellfield hydrological monitoring and reporting for compliance with CUP
• Wetland vegetation monitoring

Hawks Park Recreational Complex

This City of Edgewater project is a recreational complex. Services included:
• Protected species transect surveys
• Scrub Jay surveys and US Fish and Wildlife Service coordination
• Scrub Jay demographic study
• Prescribed burn assistance for maintenance of the scrub jay habitat
• Gopher tortoise burrow surveys
• Gopher tortoise relocation permitting
• Supervised the backhoe excavation of burrows and off-site relocation of gopher tortoises

Wallschlaeger Parcel C / I-4 Borrow Pit

This 162± site in Daytona Beach included a 45± acre borrow pit. Services included:
• Jurisdictional wetland delineation (162 acres)
• Environmental resource permitting assistance (State, Federal, Volusia County)
• Seasonal high water elevation determinations
• Protected species transect surveys
• Gopher tortoise burrow surveys
• Gopher tortoise relocation permitting
• Supervised the backhoe excavation of burrows and off-site relocation of gopher tortoises

Bouchelle Island

This is a multi-family condominium community that has 6,011 linear feet of shoreline along the Intracoastal Waterway and Callalisa Creek in New Smyrna Beach. Services included:
• Permitted mangrove trimming of 3,812 linear feet of mangroves along the shoreline
• Mangrove trimming

Flagler County Airport Runway

This Flagler County Airport project was for improvements to the Runway Safety Areas (RSA) and Runway Object Free Areas (ROFA) of Runway 06-24. Services included:
• Environmental resource permitting assistance (State and Federal)
• Protected species transect surveys
• Wood Stork analysis and US Fish and Wildlife Service coordination
• Gopher tortoise burrow surveys
• Gopher tortoise relocation permitting
• Supervised the backhoe excavation of burrows and off-site relocation of gopher tortoises
See Daytona News-Journal article regarding the project and the gopher tortoise relocation effort.

Colony Park

This project is a 57± commercial development in New Smyrna Beach. Services included:
• Environmental resource permitting assistance (State, Federal, Local)
• Statistical tree analysis
• Protected species transect surveys
• Mitigation design
• Mitigation area construction supervision
• Monitoring of mitigation area for compliance with State and Federal permits

DeLand Arborcultural
Partnership Site

BCS staff delineated the wetlands limits on this 160± site near the DeLand Municipal Airport.
• Jurisdictional wetland delineation and formal wetland determination (SJRWMD)

Mitigation Design and Monitoring

NSB Trail Mitigation Area 2014

Initial Planting

Mitigation Design and Monitoring

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One Year Later

Water Level Monitoring

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Wetlands Monitoring

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Wildlife Surveys

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Wetlands Vegetation Analysis

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Osprey Nest Relocation

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Wildlife Relocation

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