I'm not sure why Brevard county does not do their own sludge cleaning or de-mucking the canals and the lagoon.. when I was working there the county was cleaning the canals from the banks, for the lagoon they can rent a barge and clean the lagoon with their machines... At the yard that I was working from the county had like 3 or 4 dump trucks. Maybe they don't have that anymore and that's why I need to subcontract it out.. just thinking out loud here
What you are referring to was likely navigational dredging. That involves dredging everything to a set depth to allow boat traffic to get through. The Save Our Indian River Lagoon dredging projects are considered environmental dredging. Environmental dredging involves dredging all the muck without removing the natural sand bottom. It also gets much closer to shoreline structures like docks and seawalls so the operator has to know how to cut a profile without endangering the integrity of those structures. So, it takes a special dredge operator, which is not within the skill set of current county employees. The dredge contractors also have various types of dredge heads that they can switch out, depending on the conditions. The cost to purchase and maintain this equipment is not as cost-effective as contracting the job out to professionals who already have the needed skill set and equipment.
Brevard should have a program that helps private individuals or small businesses navigate all the programs to become a vendor of the county, I'm thinking maybe the SBA or some State program may even be county. Having a navigation program would involve those who want to help the Indian River program grow the local economy and add more competition as well, expedite the jobs which seems to be no shortage of, just a thought.
Organizations just need to go to brevardfl.gov/CentralServices/PurchasingServices/DoingBusinessWithBrevardCounty to apply as a vendor with the County's Purchasing Department. They will then be sent emails for any bidding opportunities with the county.
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I'm not sure why Brevard county does not do their own sludge cleaning or de-mucking the canals and the lagoon.. when I was working there the county was cleaning the canals from the banks, for the lagoon they can rent a barge and clean the lagoon with their machines... At the yard that I was working from the county had like 3 or 4 dump trucks. Maybe they don't have that anymore and that's why I need to subcontract it out.. just thinking out loud here
What you are referring to was likely navigational dredging. That involves dredging everything to a set depth to allow boat traffic to get through. The Save Our Indian River Lagoon dredging projects are considered environmental dredging. Environmental dredging involves dredging all the muck without removing the natural sand bottom. It also gets much closer to shoreline structures like docks and seawalls so the operator has to know how to cut a profile without endangering the integrity of those structures. So, it takes a special dredge operator, which is not within the skill set of current county employees. The dredge contractors also have various types of dredge heads that they can switch out, depending on the conditions. The cost to purchase and maintain this equipment is not as cost-effective as contracting the job out to professionals who already have the needed skill set and equipment.
Brevard should have a program that helps private individuals or small businesses navigate all the programs to become a vendor of the county, I'm thinking maybe the SBA or some State program may even be county. Having a navigation program would involve those who want to help the Indian River program grow the local economy and add more competition as well, expedite the jobs which seems to be no shortage of, just a thought.
Organizations just need to go to brevardfl.gov/CentralServices/PurchasingServices/DoingBusinessWithBrevardCounty to apply as a vendor with the County's Purchasing Department. They will then be sent emails for any bidding opportunities with the county.