Environmental Services, Inc. - Jupiter, Florida Office
1410 Park Lane South, Suite 1
Jupiter, Florida 33458
Phone (561) 743-5141
Fax (561) 743-5441
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Office Manager: Mary Lindgren has over 12 years experience in environmental site planning and natural resource management. Her experience includes environmental assessments, listed species surveys, wetland determinations, wetland impact permitting, mitigation planning, mitigation monitoring, and mitigation bank permitting and monitoring. Ms. Lindgren serves as Division Manager and a project manager and oversees staff performing a variety of services in support of environmental assessments and permitting.
Representative Projects
Big Cypress
The project consists of enhancement and restoration of herbaceous and forested wetlands on a 2,200-acre property in an area of regional significance in southwest Florida. The property had been converted to citrus groves in the 1960’s and was utilized as such until the late 1990’s. ESI first provided an assessment of the property and a mitigation bank feasibility study to identify existing natural resources and determine the feasibility of establishing a wetland mitigation bank on the property. Throughout the design process, ESI managed a project team that included engineers, hydrologists, soil scientists and regulatory agency staff to ensure a successful wetland restoration project. During the process, a Florida panther (Felis concolor coryi) den was discovered on the property. ESI worked closely with U.S. Fish and Wildlife staff to ensure that no disturbances occurred in the vicinity of the panther den. Through the Mitigation Bank Review Team (MBRT) process, a Mitigation Banking Instrument (MBI) was prepared in support of a Federal Permit for the project. The project received South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) permits in 1999. The more than 2,000 acres of restored and enhanced wetlands were planted with native wetland plant species. Many wildlife species, including several listed as endangered or threatened, have been observed utilizing the restored and enhanced wetlands. ESI continues to provide monitoring and support services for this long-term project.
The Bear's Club
The Bear’s Club Development Company, Palm Beach County, FL
This project is located in the Town of Jupiter, just east of Highway Alternate A-1-A and north of Donald Ross Road in northern Palm Beach County, Florida. The project is a residential and golf course development encompassing 370 acres of cow pasture and previously undeveloped land. Resolution of several environmental issues, including listed species and jurisdictional wetlands existing on the property, was necessary for development of a successful project. ESI provided environmental services for the project, including wetland jurisdictional delineation, listed species surveys, natural resource assessments, wetland permitting, listed species permitting and relocation, and wetland maintenance and monitoring. Listed species identified on or near the site include the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) and the bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). Through the planning process ESI worked with the project team to minimize wetland and listed species habitat impacts wherever possible, and to prepare compensatory mitigation and listed species relocation plans where necessary. As a result of careful mitigation planning, a total of 60 acres of wetlands were preserved and enhanced or restored on the Bear’s Club project site. Coordinating closely with Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), ESI relocated 63 gopher tortoises from the project areas into upland preservation areas. Through coordination with U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS), ESI was able to demonstrate that the project would not impact bald eagle habitat. Continuing environmental services on the site include monthly project inspections for exotic vegetation, controlled burns and other maintenance issues, as well as wetland monitoring reports.
St Lucie Inlet
This project is located just offshore of the northern end of Jupiter Island within the Hobe Sound Wildlife Refuge in Martin County, Florida. The project involves the dredging of the St. Lucie Inlet and the placement of the dredged sand onto the adjacent Refuge beach. Environmental Services provided the biological monitoring associated with this project. The focus of the monitoring consists of documenting the configuration and characteristics of the nearshore hardbottom community within the St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park to ascertain the occurrence of any impacts of sedimentation or burial attributable to the movement of sand related to beach fill placement. The biological monitoring consists of several elements: video transects of the hardbottom habitat, quadrat photography and analysis, and sediment accumulation measurements. The monitoring data will provide information necessary to evaluate if sand placed on the beach has any adverse impact on the nearshore hardbottom and if changes to construction activities are warranted. ESI has worked closely with the project engineer and the staffs of Martin County and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to prepare the biological monitoring program which was approved in October 2006. Dredging of the inlet was completed in 2007. ESI has successfully completed the pre-dredge and post-dredge monitoring of the reefs and will continue to provide monitoring and support services for two years following completion of this project.
