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US 11,598,064 B2Granted
Lake restoration systems and processes
AssigneeLake Restoration Solutions, Inc.
InventorsBenjamin Parker, Todd Parker, Ryan Benson
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Abstract
Systems and methods of restoring a lake including dredging, island creation, water treatment, real estate development, computer modeling of environmental conditions, wave height reduction, sediment removal and encapsulation, bathymetry contouring, littoral zone restoration, plant restoration, and/or fish restoration.
Claims20
A system to restore a body of water, comprising:
- one or more dredgers to remove sediment from a bed of the body of water to increase depth of the body of water;
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- one or more geotubes to receive and encapsulate nutrient loaded sediments removed from the bed of the body of water, wherein the one or more geotubes effectively sequester both the nutrient loaded sediments and the nutrients within the sediments to prevent the nutrients within the sediments from leaching out of the one or more geotubes, wherein the one or more geotubes are to be arranged to form a border for one or more islands within the body of water, the one or more islands positioned to at least one of (i) disrupt wind patterns across a surface of the body of water, (ii) reduce fetch length, and (iii) impede wave action, wherein the one or more dredgers pump sediment to fill the geotubes, and
- wherein the one or more dredgers pump sediment to provide island material to infill a region defined by the border formed by the geotubes for each of the one or more islands to construct the one or more islands.
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A system to restore an ecosystem of a body of water, comprising:
- one or more dredgers to dredge nutrient loaded sediment from a bed of the body of water to increase average depth of the body of water and change bathymetry of the body of water;
- one or more geotubes to receive sediment removed from the bed of the body of water, each geotube comprising geotextile material configured to allow passage of water and to retain the nutrient loaded sediment received therein, the one or more geotubes to be arranged to form a border or perimeter for one or more islands positioned to at least one of:
- reduce a length of water between opposing shorelines over which a wind blows that creates wave action on the surface of the body of water, and
- at least partially define channels that influence one of circulation and temperature within the body of water,
- wherein the one or more dredgers pump the nutrient loaded sediment to fill the geotubes and drive water out of the one or more geotubes to consolidate and compress the nutrient loaded sediment, and
- wherein the one or more dredgers pump fine nutrient loaded sediment dredge material to provide island material to infill the border formed by the geotubes for each of the one or more islands to construct the one or more islands;
- compaction equipment to compact the island material of the one or more islands to provide structural capacity to support structures on the one or more islands;
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- water quality equipment to treat one or more sources of incoming water flowing into the body of water, the water quality equipment to reduce nutrient content of the incoming water and thereby decrease nutrient loading of the body of water.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.