Lake Cavity Repairs at Carlton Lakes Naples
The following pictures show the washouts we had before and after the Seabreeze cavity repair. The before pictures were taken in June 2022, before Ian hit, the after were taken June 2024.
David Appleby
Carlton Lakes Committee Master Board Liaison
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If you choose to go with geo trash bags or polyethylene containment systems (which are also made out of trash bag material) on your shoreline, this picture is a good example of the final product. The crazy thing is... these bags were installed behind homes worth as much as $14million in a prominent community in Naples, FL. If you paid that much for your house and saw these trash bags lining the shoreline of your beautiful lake, how would you feel?
In order to save money, a prominent community in the heart of Naples, FL hired a contractor to install poly containment systems on their shorelines instead of our Hybrid Shell SystemTM. After realizing how incredibly awful the bags looked (not to mention sod will not grow on them), the contractor agreed to dump some shell on top of them to hide their ugliness. The result was even worse. And the littoral plantings below the bags are already half dead and look just as bad. DON'T GET FOOLED INTO INSTALLING POLY BAGS ON YOUR SHORELINE!
These geotubes were installed in north Bonita Springs, FL just 6 MONTHS AGO by Dragonfly (who has since shut down their Southwest Florida operations). In fact, the HOA members tell us that they were paid to install littoral plantings but never did. They just shut down and left the state! The tubes are now exposed, failing, and look awful. The HOA members like our all-natural erosion control products and are quoted as saying "I wish we knew about Seabreeze 5 years ago!"
