I Description of property
A very large multilevel facility with 2 towers,
a glass dome in the center, and numerous peaks, valleys and ridge,
made this a challenging project. It is located in beautiful Bonita
Springs, on the southwest coast of Florida.
II Description of problem
St. Leo's Church had some areas where small pockets
of bats were roosting, but the main tower at the rear of the facility
was packed with a colony of approximately 4,000 bats living in
the void.
Access to the tower was gained with an 85 foot
boom lift.
IV Unique attributes of project
One of the difficult parts of this project was
that the tower was over 90 feet high. Another problem was that
an extremely large colony of Hornets was also living in the roof
void. We could not spray any pesticides to kill the hornets because
the risk of poisoning the bats was too great. So it was decided
to try to cover as much of our bodies as possible with thick clothing
while working on the tower. The problem with that was that it
was about 85 degrees and sunny.
After (a hot and sweaty) 7 hours the entire tower
was covered with a continuous exclusion net to allow the bats
to safely exit but not return. The remainder of the facility took
three days to complete and we did it without being stung once.
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