On Monday the Fort Myers Beach Town Council approved a $95,710 add-on to Earth Balance’s dune plantings contract. The additional plantings will be paid for by a Florida Department of Emergency Management grant and bring the total number of plants on the beach to 160,000.
The town has already paid Earth Balance $510,000 for the dune plantings assignment which was completed earlier this month. The plantings were started right after the town’s beach renourishment project was completed and the pipes were removed.
$95,720 will get the town an additional 25,000 plants…