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LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

 What can we offer to you, the Resort Owner and Developer?

 ET specializes in the following areas:

  • Salinity and Landscape Development Issues
  • Effluent Irrigation
  • Salt Water and Seawater Irrigation
  • Turfgrass Consultants
  • Water Quality and Water Treatment Issues
  • Soil Stabilization For Erosion and Dust Control
  • Golf Course Management Consultants
  • Modified Root Zone Profile Designs
  • Site Evaluation and Feasibility Assessments
  • Black Layer Control and Prevention
  • Developers of Fine-Textured Salt Tolerant Turfs

 How Can Our Expertise Benefit You?

Our specialized areas of expertise allows for the development of landscapes in the most challenging environments. Water quality issues and fresh water availability are key issues in landscape development projects. Our expertise, experience, services and products allows for the development of landscapes in harsh environments or challenging sites. Instead of imposing rigid controls upon the site ecosystem in the design phase, we are experts at utilizing and manipulating the existing ecosystems. For example, where fresh water shortages hamper development, we have successfully utilized salt water resources for irrigation instead of incurring high expenses for fresh water piping or desalination plants.

Salt Water and Seawater Irrigation

Utilizing our specially developed turfs and ornamental plants known collectively as halophytes (salt-tolerant plants) we can make salt water irrigation feasible. We have even successfully utilized seawater irrigation on golf courses! What happens on many coastal sites is the need to replace large amounts of turf after every storm event that results in tidal surge and seawater flooding. If you want to stabilize a beach front against storm tidal surge utilizing salt water irrigation, we can do that. Imagine beach front landscapes that never need to replace grass following storm events! Seawater flooding, no problem!

Soil Ecosystem Management

The key to sustainable management of challenging landscape environments is the monitoring, manipulation and management of the soil ecosystem. Our expertise in applied soil ecology allows us to accomplish what others can not even dream of doing. Yet, what we are doing makes perfect sense. Irrigate with seawater? One may ask. Of course, nature does this every day. Natural coastal ecosystems throughout the world are vegetated with plants that utilize seawater for their water needs. What we have done is to select, evaluate and then develop new varieties of halophytes that are suitable for landscape use. We even have grass for golf greens that is salt water irrigated!

Effluent Irrigation

Often effluent use is touted as a remedy for the lack of fresh water resources. What is often not considered is that effluent is salt-affected water. Without careful management of effluent, salinity problems and soil ecosystem problems can arise. ‘Black layer’ occurrence is common on effluent irrigated landscapes and can cause considerable damage, expense and even loss of plants.

Waste Sites May Be Developed

If you have a site where unique challenges exist, we would like to work with you. If you have to use expensive desalinated water for irrigation, we want to speak to you. If you want to develop a landscape on a landfill or other waste site, we can help. If you want to install a rooftop or on-structure landscape, we have the experience. Whether your landscape development is for lawns, sports fields, road sides, beach side or golf course, we can help you.

Even if your current site(s) do not include challenging ecosystems, we can help you to evaluate potential sites that could not be easily developed without our type of system. These sites would be passed over by other developers/owners as impractical to develop and yet these sites can often be obtained at more reasonable costs. Additionally, some of these sites offer some of the most interesting of settings as well. We hope that we may be of service to you in your development needs.

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EnviroTurf, LC
835 Herricksville Rd.
Tekonsha, MI 49094
saltturf@yahoo.com