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Wetlands and lakes are valuable ecological and financial assets that contribute to wildlife diversity, runoff detoxification, and increased property values. With these benefits in mind, AEI’s staff maintains close regulatory relationships and dedicates significant engineering resources for the development of proprietary equipment technologies such as the AquamogTM Mechanical Restoration System and its powered attachments to restore and maintain the aquatic environments in the Western United States. A low draft design combined with paddle wheel and hydraulic propulsion allows the Aquamog™ to function in water less than 6 inches deep. The Aquamog™ and it’s support staff can achieve rapid removal of silt, dense tulles, spartina, and other densely rooted plants like no other technology. As a result of the low draft design and low impact support equipment on shore, the Aquamog™ is also well suited for careful removal of invasive plant species in the most sensitive wetland environments.
Invasive Plant Removal
From mowing and chipping of Arundo donax on stream banks through clearing delta waters of water hyacinth, Aquatic Environments is California's leading company dedicated to removing nuisance vegetation on both land and water.
Aquatic plants are important detoxifiers of chemicals and nutrients in lakes, rivers, ponds, and treatment wetlands. However, many of the plant species introduced into our waters have reached invasive proportions due to excessive nutrients in the water and their ability to out compete native plants.
AEI understands all facets of the problem and is equipped with the mechanical, chemical, and biological control measures to eliminate invasive plants or to control their spread. Our talented aquatic pest control applicators working in concert with airboats, proprietary Aquamogs, aquatic weed harvesters, brush mowers, and composting equipment; will insure that invasive plant problems are solved.
Please contact us if your property is impacted with algae, duckweed, primrose, lilies, bulrush, cattails, milfoil, hyacinth, elodea, hydrilla, egeria, waterweed, naiad, pondweed, pondlily, waterlily, coontail, widgeon grass, spartina, azola, parrotfeather, floating pennywort, alligatorweed, sagopondweed, salvinia, widgeongrass, plantain, arrowhead, alligatorweed, cordgrass, phragmites, arundo, chara, or any of the hundreds of aquatic and riparian weeds that can be kept under control by Aquatic Environments.
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Dredging & Sediment Processing
Aquatic Environments is capable of suction and clam bucket dredging in marinas, canals, ports, golf course lakes, wetlands, and a host of other water bodies. AEI has completed projects involving barge mounted excavators and cranes, long reach excavators, and our Aquamog systems.
AEI's services are consistently more cost competitive than conventional dredging operations given our low mobilization costs, minimal peripheral damage, and unique abilities to reduce trucking costs by separating vegetation and rocks from dredge spoils. In many cases, AEI can turn vegetation into usable compost and separate sediments into marketable sand and aggregates.
The Aquamog can also be used to assist in large-scale dredging operations by removing sediments and debris in confined areas including: beneath docks, adjacent to piling and sheet pile, and in other places where damage by large cutterhead dredges is a concern.
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Channel Clearing
Aquatic Environments works where few other companies dare to go. Tidal marshes, waste treatment lagoons, stormwater channels, and stormwater detention basins are just a few of the places that require our services.
The Aquamog and its attachments can revitalize virtually any channel or riparian corridor. Typical applications include flood control and fish and waterfowl habitat improvement. To keep waterways free of nuisance vegetation and sediments; AEI utilizes hydraulic clam buckets to excavate sediments and rotary equipment to breakup unwanted plant growth.
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Creek Restoration
America's creeks and rivers undergoing a transformation to improve habitat for plants and animals. Our extensive experience working with regulatory agencies in terrestrial and aquatic vegetation control combined with our heavy construction capabilities, Aquatic Environments is uniquely positioned to undertake the most challenging riparian restorations.
Removal of undesirable materials, modification of flows, and addition of rocks, revetments, logs, and vegetation are the centerpieces of a creek restoration by AEI. As engineers and habitat improvement professionals, AEI is frequently called upon to balance the needs of both civil engineers and local citizens. Aquamog™ Mechanical Restoration System with clamshell bucket clearing a clogged waterway in a Bay Area estuary.
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