Marco Island has grappled with water quality issues within its inland canals for years. The C-HAWQ Initiative proposes an unsolicited public-private partnership with the City of Marco Island to fund, design, and build island habitats using the dredged canal material. The public-private partnership would be an important relationship between the City and the proposing general contractor, Earthwerks Land Improvement & Development Corp, to execute the project fully. The project timeline would take approximately 2 years to complete after permitting with 3 additional years of monitoring and maintenance of the islands.