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<br />Reef Ball <br /> <br />Authorized <br />Contra<;:tors <br /> <br />Links <br /> <br />Home <br /> <br />Page 2 of 8 <br /> <br />of our clients have even used Reef Balls as mitigation for aClivities such as building a dock or sanding <br />pumping....now isn't that a switch? <br /> <br />Right: Reef Ball ill a submerged <br />breakwater showillg biological <br />growth of 4 mOllths, 1I0te 2 soft corals <br />alld olle fillger coral were propagated <br />alld trallsplallted <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />Reef Balls are a modular system <br />and it is possible to move or <br />removed them in case that is <br />needed, but because a living reef <br />system will develop on the Reef <br />Balls one should consider Reef <br />Balls as a permanent feature. <br /> <br />1'1 <br /> <br /> <br />Our assistance typically involves <br />an initial on-site engineering and <br />design evaluation which will <br />produce a proposal that will <br />include feasibility and initial cost <br />range estimates. There are <br />engineering and design fees plus expenses for this initial evaluation that will be crediled to the overall <br />cost of the project if you accept the proposal. We prefer for you to gather as much site specific data as <br />you can before we arrive so that we can keep the initial visit fees low. (Checklist of typ_es of d<!ta we <br />like to see) <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />J <br /> <br /> <br />Fish life is abulldallt ill alld aroulld Reef Balls sillce they <br />are desiglled specifically to create marille habitat. Ol'er <br />1/2 a millioll Reef Balls have beell used ill (}I'er 3,500 <br />, projects ill 43 coulltries as desiglled artificial reef habitat. <br /> <br />How Do Reef Ball Submerged Breakwaters <br />Compare to Traditional Submerged <br /> <br />Breakwaters? <br /> <br />"Cost of Reef Balls verses rock breakwaters depends on local costs of <br />rock, concrete. and heavy equipment. If rock is available nearby and <br />cheap. then it may be the lowest cost. depending on transportation and <br />deployment costs. However, expensive and sometimes unavailable barges and <br />heavy equipment are needed to deploy the multi-ton rocks, whereas the Reef <br />Ball units can be floated out from the beach. <br /> <br />Required widths are similar, but we are able to deploy Reef Ball <br />breakwaters in shallower water (I .5m to 2m water depths) due to being able <br />to anchor them into the bottom. Rock breakwaters that would be submerged <br />may not be able to be built in that shallow water depth, so that would <br />make them taller and wider for the same protection. <br /> <br />Then there is the comparison of environmental enhancement, which will be <br />much better for the Reef Ball breakwater than just rocks.. <br /> <br />http://www.reefbeach.com/ <br /> <br />6111/2008 <br />