On Monday the Fort Myers Beach Town Council approved a $95,710 add-on to Earth Balance’s dune plantings contract. The additional plantings will be paid for by a Florida Department of Emergency Management grant and bring the total number of plants on the beach to 160,000.
The town has already paid Earth Balance $510,000 for the dune plantings assignment which was completed earlier this month. The plantings were started right after the town’s beach renourishment project was completed and the pipes were removed.
$95,720 will get the town an additional 25,000 plants.
Fort Myers Beach Marine Operations Project Manager Chad Chustz told the Town Council Monday that the plants will slow down winds and helps build up the dune over time as the plants stop some of the from making it all the way to the homes and businesses on Estero Boulevard.
If you would like plantings by your property and you have not yet signed an easement with the town to get the plants you can still get in the program by calling Chad at 239-462-8127.
If you see these sticks on the beach, do not walk over the plantings.
Plants would be all “good and well,” if the beach looked nice! Our friends are renting up by the library and, CLEARLY, the beach is getting raked and tended to (the beach at the south end looks TERRIBLE!). Why don’t WE get the same attention as north and mid beach??? We get renters down at this end, too ~ and when they read about the “beautiful, white, pristine” beaches at FMB, they aren’t getting that, at this south end!!!!!
Because the property owners pay for the beach raking.
It’s dry season now… How many of these plants are going to survive until next rainy season? Lets just piss away more tax money even if its masked as a grant. No roping off of the dunes. People just trample them.
It’s dry season now… How many of these plants are going to survive until next rainy season? Lets just piss away more tax money even if ord masked as a grant. No roping off of the dunes. People just trample them.
they should also plant palm treet since they root deep, give shade, look nice and tend to not uproot with wind and water.