Floating Excavators for Naples Lake, Canal, and Bay Projects

Amphibious floating excavators that restore community lakes, dredge silted canals, and reshape shorelines across Collier County, reaching the water without a barge or a lay-down yard.

Truxor dredger removing dense aquatic vegetation in shallow water

A Floating Excavator for Naples' Thousands of Community Lakes

Naples is built around water features. Behind the gates of its golf and master-planned communities sit thousands of stormwater lakes, and year after year they fill with organic sediment that steals depth, chokes flood storage, and sours the water quality residents pay to protect.

Restoring one of those lakes with a barge rig means craning a machine over a manicured berm and hoping the pontoon fits between the docks. Most of the time it does not.

A Truxor drives in over the bank, floats out, and pulls the sediment from the surface, restoring depth without tearing up the community around it.

A Floating Excavator Built for Collier County Water

One amphibious platform for lake restoration, canal dredging, and shoreline grading across Naples and Collier County, FL.

Add a Floating Excavator to Your Collier County Operation

The right floating excavator depends on how much sediment a lake has lost to depth, how you reach the water past the landscaping, and what the community will tolerate for access.

We size the Truxor to the job, from dredging organic muck out of an HOA lake to restore storage, to cutting a littoral shelf along a Naples Bay shoreline, to desilting a Gordon River tributary canal.

Whether you run lake maintenance contracts across Collier communities or you are adding dredging to your service list, we match the machine and attachments to the water.

A Truxor Machine Using a Yellow Excavator Arm to Scoop Out Dense Sediment

Why Collier County Contractors Choose Amphibious Floating Excavators

Naples lakes sit hemmed in by docks, seawalls, cart paths, and landscaping, so the machine has to reach the water quietly and leave the community intact.

Restore Lake Depth Without the Mess

Pull organic sediment from a gated-community lake and rebuild its storage from the water, with no crane over the berm and no torn-up common areas.

Slip Past the Docks and Landscaping

Enter a Naples lake or canal off a bank or ramp between the docks, where a pontoon barge is too wide to launch and too big to maneuver.

One Machine for Lake, Canal, and Bay

redge a lake, desilt a canal, or cut a littoral shelf on Naples Bay with a single amphibious unit and the right attachment for each.

Doro Digger

Support That Protects the Investment

A floating excavator is a serious buy, and it earns out only with a crew trained to run it and a supplier who keeps the downtime short.

We train Collier County operators on the lakes and canals they work, and back them across lake restoration, canal dredging, shoreline grading, and the littoral and estuary jobs reviewed by the City of Naples and Collier County.

Every Truxor purchase includes:

See a Floating Excavator Restore a Naples Lake

Watch an amphibious machine pull sediment from a community lake or shape a shoreline somewhere in Collier County, and judge the reach and the light footprint for yourself.

Speak With a Naples Floating Excavator Specialist

Have a Collier County lake, canal, or bay shoreline that needs dredging but no clean way to stage a barge? Tell us the site and the access, and we will tell you whether a Truxor floating excavator fits.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What is a floating excavator used for in Naples?

Across Collier County it restores community and stormwater lakes by removing organic sediment, dredges canals, cuts littoral shelves, and grades shorelines in shallow water where a standard excavator cannot go.

Can a floating excavator restore a gated-community lake?

Yes. It reaches the lake over a bank, floats on the surface, and pulls the sediment that has cost the lake its depth and storage, all without craning a barge over the community’s landscaping.

How is it different from a pontoon-mounted excavator?

A pontoon rig is a dry-land excavator on a separate barge that has to be trucked and craned into the water. A Truxor is one amphibious machine that reaches the water on its own, with no barge to stage.

Does it work in Naples Bay and brackish canals?

Yes. It runs the county’s tidal and brackish water, and every Southwest Florida sale includes the rinse-down and corrosion care that salt requires.

Do I need a permit to dredge a lake or canal in Naples?

Often. Dredging in the City of Naples generally requires a marine permit, natural waterbodies can require a council petition first, and Collier County, SFWMD Big Cypress Basin, FDEP, or the Army Corps may apply by scope. Confirm with the agencies before you start, since we supply equipment, not permits.