Henry Elmore
Managing Member
Henry Elmore with TSI has been in the debris recovery and reduction business for over 20 years and has worked on over 150 jobs in Florida since 2004. He ran all company operations in Lee, Charlotte, Hardy, Desoto, Manatee, Sarasota, Polk, Hendry, Hillsborough, Brevard, St. Lucie, Osceola, Palm Beach, Broward, and Orange Counties.
He has managed operations that cleaned over 600 miles of canals, rivers, and streams in Districts 1 and 4 alone. In the past six years he has completed over twenty contracts in Lee County with job costs ranging from $1,200.00 to $998,000.00 and is currently on contract with Lee County at the 10-mile Filter Marsh location. All jobs were finished on time in an efficient manner with no liquidated damages. He has overseen tree jobs as well as derelict vessels and exotic vegetation eradication. He currently has a crew working at Prairie Pines on exotic vegetation removal and just finished an aquatic eradication on Three Oaks/Estero Lake in Lee County.
Mr. Elmore has worked with Southwest Water Management on FEMA, RCS state, county FWC, municipality, city, and county projects. He has also been working with FDOT District 1 on herbicide contracts as a maintenance contractor for the past three years. In addition to these jobs, he has also held a derelict vessel contract for three years in Charlotte County and has been overseeing the stream restoration projects in southern Florida for the past six years. These restorations range from as small a project as 20,000 dollars to as large as 3.6 million dollars.
TSI also has marine contractors, longshoremen, and harbor act insurance, as well as herbicide, aquatic natural areas, and right of way licenses. The company also has intermediate MOT as well as FAA clearance to be able to work on airports in the state of Florida.
Mr. Elmore has served as operations manager, and corporate health and safety director in the past five years. He and TSI believe that the right preparation, manpower, and machines can make for a safe working environment for not only the contractor but also the owner and the homeowner. He has always maintained a great working relationship with homeowners, which in turn preserves the homeowners’ positive view of municipalities.
l He has consistently maintained high safety standards by educating TSI employees about accident prevention and is also responsible for insuring proper safety certifications and safety practices on all projects. He routinely conducts unannounced work site safety inspections to insure safety procedures are followed. Additionally, Mr. Elmore works closely with engineers to formulate action plans prior to the beginning of any jobs to identify concerns and eliminate any possible time consuming issues.
Henry Elmore and TSI’s alternative means and methods create a new look at traditional methodology and have made them innovators in cleaning lakes, canals, and marshlands without any damage to their ecosystems. They have the required resources to remove debris from practically any location with no damage to the environment. These talents and practices have made them the leaders they are in the business today.