The future of florida water: reducing, reusing & recycling invasive plants
AguaCulture Technologies: Changing the waters of Lake O and Beyond. Pg 40-45
betty osceola on pBs, greenmach one
Betty Osceola Miccosukee Indigenous Rights Activist and Environmental Educator meets with AguaCulture.
FWC removing invasive plants from Okeechobee
AguaCulture Proof of Concept Underway on Lake O
Put the Land Back on the Land: A National Imperative
If soil erosion is the second biggest worldwide environment problem due to its threat to food security [5], our Put the Land Back on the Land addresses not only a national imperative of many nations, but an important national security issue for those nations. To understand our contention that now is the time to implement Put the Land Back on the Land programs across the world, we discuss four themes:
FWC removing invasive plants from Okeechobee
Florida Fish and Wildlife is focusing on physically removing invasive plants from the lake because they can reduce water quality and can make navigation on the lake next to impossible for boaters. Removing the plants involves using a mechanical harvester.
After removing the plants, they’re turning into a semi-liquid mixture that is pumped to nearby fields. It is used to enhance the soil with the extra nutrients we don’t want in the water.
AguaCulture Technologies GreenMach One
After 20 years of research, innovation, testing, hard work, setbacks and a considerable amount of opposition, Nick Szabo’s dream finally became a reality. An environmentally friendly and economically efficient solution to the invasive vegetation and legacy nutrient biomass problem that has plagued Florida’s waterways for decades. The GreenMach™ One.
Innovative Nutrient Reduction Project Begins on Lake Okeechobee
In partnership with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District, the work began March 8 and will cover 35 acres on the lake.
FWC tries turning invasive water hyacinth into soil amendment
Now the Army Corps is doing what the FWC is testing out, which is to use harvesters to cut trails in the water, clear navigation channels, and remove the plant from around water intake systems, dams and locks. The FWC, however, is taking things a step further by processing the plants into a nutrient-rich slurry and the donating it to farmers.
AguaCulture project ‘sucking up the muck’ off lake bottom
“The problem with most projects is they are not scalable,” Szabo said. “This can be scaled.”
