Thank You!
Good Morning Friends of Deadman’s Island!
I wanted to thank everyone all your hard work and dedication to the Shoreline Stabilization project on Saturday. This project could not have happened without you! Saturday was such a productive day and has jump started this year’s stabilization efforts! Everyone worked extremely hard and Donna DeSeno has proof! Donna did a fantastic job taking pictures.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49394100@N05/
Here are some highlights of Saturday- everything was performed at high tide and in the water!
A total of 48 Volunteers-
200ft of coir logs created and placed along the shoreline for plant protection
1000 plants were not just planted, but two layers of geo material were cut into, dirt was placed in these holes and then the vegetation was planted!
500 ft of turbidity curtain was moved, repositioned and re-anchored using what was already present
Very heavy remnants of the curtain that were ripped off and hanging from the old curtain, were brought back on shore
There was an “Island wide” trash cleanup afterwards–compliments of Troop 10 boyscouts and James Neyman
Other groups:
UWF students rocked! Gary Ghioto Class!
Chain Reaction was fantastic!
A special thanks to our boat drivers and those who donated their boats and time to the project the day before and the day of to transport volunteers.
The Deseno Family for the pictures
The Pardonner Family
I did not have Jennifer Dragoo or Micheal Hobbs email so if someone knows them and can pass this email, that would be greatly appreciated!
I doubt I will ever have work as hard as Saturday’s efforts, since YOU have set the foundation for this summer’s stabilization efforts.
The rest of the events will be easy and I would love to have you back! May 1st will be our next event.
We may be creating more of the Ecodiscs!
If you would like to come out to snorkel and monitor (count fish, oysters, crabs, drills) next month (this month is too cold and will be just myself) please send me an email if you are interested.
Shoreline vegetation planting-Note:Our future plantings will not consist of cutting through the Geo fabric and will consist of just digging sand and planting