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May/June 2009
Marina Dock Age
(www.marinadockage.com)
"City Marina wins gold medal of international marina designs"
"In February 2009, City Marina of Charleston, S.C., MDA's 2005 Marina of
the Year winner, received notice that it had won PIANC's 2009 Jack
Nichol Award for outstanding marina design...
"This international award is named after the late Jack Nichol, a
well-known marina designer. City Marina won thanks to a 10-year, $12
million renovation that rebuilt the marina from the ground up. The
resulting facility is one of the best marinas on the East Coast...
"The first step City Marina Co. took to implement its vision was to hire
Applied Technology and Management (ATM)..."
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May/June 2009
Marina World
(www.marinaworld.com)
"Charleston wins Jack Nichol award"
"USA: Charleston City Marina, Charleston, South Carolina has won
the 2009 Jack Nichol Marina Design Award for outstanding marina design.
The award is made annually by PIANC, Belgium, the international
association for waterborne transport infrastructure that was established
in 1885.
"The jury deemed Charleston City Marina as 'best representing the
technical, functional, aesthetic and environmental award criteria'.
"Originally a municipal marina, the facility was privatised in 1994 and
subsequently underwent a major redevelopment in the hands of new owners,
The City Marina Company, and industry consultants, Applied Technology &
Management (ATM)..."
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March 18, 2009
X-Ray Int'l Dive Magazine
(www.xray-mag.com)
"Breakers Reef, FL restoration completed"
"DEP partners with local agencies and organizations has announced the
completion of the restoration of the Breakers Reef, which was damaged in
November 2008...
"FWC and Palm Beach County ERM staff assessed the damage to the Breakers
Reef in late November of 2008 and in December 2008 the CRCP selected
West Palm Beach water resources and environmental engineering firm,
Applied Technology & Management (ATM) to help restore the damage. The
ATM team, led by Project Manager Bill Fay, assembled a team of qualified
reef experts and recruited volunteers to assist in the restoration
efforts." |
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March 18, 2009
NPR: All Things Considered
(www.npr.org)
"Rescuing A Florida Reef"
"A popular reef off the coast of Palm Beach, Fla., is on the mend.
Volunteer divers re-attached coral that local environmental agencies
believe was knocked off the reef by a tow cable. Diver Bill Fay talks
about the effort he coordinated." |
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March 17, 2009
Palm Beach Post
(www.palmbeachpost.com)
"Volunteers reattach coral to a damaged,
well-known reef off The Breakers hotel"
"It was a Humpty Dumpty project of epic proportion.
"Dive 60 feet to the ocean floor with a bucket of cement and reattach
103 corals sliced from a swath of reef larger than two football fields.
Sacrifice your weekends for nearly three months and stay underwater as
long as the human body will allow. Do it in 68-degree water and never
let one hand touch the other. And do it with volunteers.
"'I knew these people would be into doing this,' said Bill Fay, The
Breakers Reef repair project coordinator who works as a marine engineer
for Applied Technology & Management. 'I called and said, "Hey, let's do
this," and I didn't have a single refusal.'
"The team of nine volunteers from four local marine engineering and
environmental firms knew if they did not repair The Breakers Reef, no
one would. Federal, state and local agencies were busy with other
projects and did not have the finances..."
(View map
and details of restoration area.) |
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March 12, 2009
NBC WPTV NewsChannel 5
(www.wptv.com)
"Breakers reef damage has great recovery"
"PALM BEACH, FL – It is a tourist attraction and natural resource unique
to South Florida.
"But last fall, a man-made mistake carved a devastating chunk out of the
breaker's reef...
"'We went out on a dive tour today on the site and it really is hard to
tell which corals have been attached at this point the little bit of
cement that would show at the bottom of the corals has now been covered
with algea and other organisms, unless you knew what was down there, you
couldn't tell,' Bill Fay, Project Manager, Applied Technology [&]
Management..." |
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March 11, 2009
CBS WPEC NEWS 12
(www.cbs12.com)
"CBS 12 Gets An In Depth Look at The Breakers
Reef Restoration Project"
"The Breakers Reef, badly damaged months ago, is nursing back to
health at a remarkable rate
"It's a reef restoration project, months in the making, and now complete
promising a new future for one of South Florida's premier diving
spots...the Breakers Reef...
"'We used a 5 gallon bucket and an electric drill to mix the concrete.
It's a special mix of Portland cement with special additives to keep it
from washing out under water,' said Bill Fay, the project manager..." |
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March 11, 2009
FDEP - The Post
(www.dep.state.fl.us)
"Breakers Reef Restoration Completed"
"DEP partners with local agencies and organizations to help restore
fragile reef
"PALM BEACH – The Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP)
Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP), Florida Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Commission (FWC) and Palm Beach County Environmental
Resources Management (ERM) today announced the completion of the
restoration of the Breakers Reef, which was damaged in November 2008...
"FWC and Palm Beach County ERM staff assessed the damage to the Breakers
Reef in late November of 2008 and in December 2008 the CRCP selected
West Palm Beach water resources and environmental engineering firm,
Applied Technology & Management (ATM) to help restore the damage. The
ATM team, led by Project Manager Bill Fay, assembled a team of qualified
reef experts and recruited volunteers to assist in the restoration
efforts..." |
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February 26, 2009
Palm Beach Daily News
(www.palmbeachdailynews.com)
"Palm Beach, Port of Palm Beach may unite on
sand dredging"
"In other business Thursday, the shore board decided to hire Applied
Technology and Management for an independent review of the performance
of the Reach 7 beach fill project..." |
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January 10, 2009
Palm Beach Daily News
(www.palmbeachdailynews.com)
"Thanks to volunteers on Breakers reef repair
team"
"More than a month after surveying the damage, the restoration of The
Breakers reef may finally get under way next week, weather permitting.
And while those who damaged the reef remain at large, a state-approved
coalition will volunteer time, materials and expertise to help restore
the damaged off-shore habitat for marine life...
"Volunteers, including members of Palm Beach County Reef Rescue, brought
the reef damage issue to the attention of state officials and are to be
commended. Unlike those volunteers though, the new restoration team,
headed by Bill Fay of the West Palm Beach marine consulting firm Applied
Technology and Management, will include members of Palm Beach County
Environmental Resources Management, an organization that surveyed the
damage in November..." |
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January 8, 2009
Palm Beach Daily News
(www.palmbeachdailynews.com)
"Volunteer crew on deck to begin The Breakers
reef repair"
"By next week, environmental consultants could begin work restoring The
Breakers reef, which was mysteriously damaged in late October or early
November.
"The Florida Department of Environmental Protection last month selected
Bill Fay, of the West Palm Beach marine consulting firm Applied
Technology and Management, to manage the project.
"Fay's crew is made up of volunteers. Because those responsible for the
damage have not been identified, no one can be assessed the costs of
repairing the reef..." |
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