Estero Bay Nutrient Management Partnership

  Thank you to all the

  volunteers who helped us

  complete a project to "turn

  dirt" and put something

  positive in the ground!  On

  Saturday, July 16, 2005

  at Lakes Park about 100

  volunteers planted a marsh

  with 1,800 native plants

  which will assist in restoring

  wetland functions at the Park.  The water in Lakes Park, which was a rock quarry before Lee County converted it into a regional park, drains over a weir south of Gladiolus Drive before flowing into Hendry Creek and on to Estero Bay.

Volunteers included members of the Southwest Florida Watershed Council and the Estero Bay Nutrient Management Partnership; employees of the South Florida Water Management District, the Florida Department of Environmental  Protection, and Lee County; staff from local environmental and   engineering firms including Johnson Engineering, Bonita Bay

and EarthBalance; and the members of a 4-H Club.  We are grateful to them all!

For more information on the Estero Bay Nutrient Management Partnership, please contact  webmaster@swfwc.org

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