Project Location: Collier County, FL
RWA is providing professional planning, engineering, and surveying services for the future construction of a mixed-use community known as Sabal Bay. The community will include 1,999 residential units, an 18-hole golf course, and a small commercial area on over 1,000 acres of land. The property includes wetland and upland conservation areas that cover more than 50 percent of the project area and require the construction of a portion of the regional Lely Area Stormwater Improvement Plan (LASIP) designed by Collier County and their consulting team. To date, this project has tested the skills and experience of each of the RWA professional disciplines in the areas of regulatory planning, by playing an instrumental lead role in the zoning approval process; land surveying, in the areas of extensive and complicated mapping of existing land features and natural resources; and civil engineering, by the way of highly technical and complex water management design and related environmental permitting.
For this project, the RWA team is responsible for all the entitlement work related to the zoning of the project, the preparation of a conceptual site plan and master plan, and all permitting associated with obtaining an ERP permit and all local permitting required for a mixed use master planned community. Conceptual planning includes potable water system modeling and analysis of water main circulation and five protection demands. Sanitary sewer master planning includes development of lift station parameters for a manifolded system and preliminary design of a master lift station to serve the entire 2,400-acre development. Stormwater management modeling was used to design a weir and spreader system for discharge into the Rookery Bay National Estuarine System in addition to providing an effective stormwater system to preserve the significant wetland community on the site.
For this project, the RWA Survey team completed the survey and location of approximately 199,000 feet of flagged, delineated, jurisdictional wetlands, wetland transects, location of 75 hydrologic indicators, prepared a boundary survey along with a sketch and legal description of the proposed off site school site, and conservation areas. In addition, RWA established a GPS network for the entire 2,400 acre project site using the latest Trimble GPS equipment and technologies.