Site work for a water / sewer project in Naples, Florida. Conceptual plans call for site work for a water / sewer project.

The Collier County/ Rookery Bay Comprehensive Watershed Improvement Plan Final Design and Permitting Phase integrates a series of linked surface water management projects on approximately 10,000 acres of eastern Collier County. The objective of the project is restoring the hydrology and ecology of both Naples Bay and Rookery Bay, as well as the hydrologic restoration of the southern Belle Meade area of the Picayune Strand State Forest (PSSF). This project will divert water from entering Naples Bay, which is overly impacted by a freshwater surplus during wet season, by creating a flow-way from the Golden Gate Canal structure through the PSSF to Rookery Bay, which has a freshwater deficit. Approximately 70% of Collier County's 2,300 sq. miles has been altered since the 1950's in order to accommodate coastal development. In addition to shoreline modifications, extensive canal construction for urban and agricultural drainage has changed the timing and quantity of freshwater inflows to coastal waters. These changes have dramatically affected water quality and quantity of many County estuaries. Prior to intense development, rainfall either infiltrated into the surficial aquifer or flowed through extensive wetlands into the coastal waters of the County. The final design and permitting of this project are the first step in rehydrating and restoring at least a portion of the historical flows within the region helping to re-establish historical wetlands and hydro periods to some degree.