The new seawall

[JD]

We've lost about 60' of land to the waves over the past 15 years. I have a SSW fetch with prevailing southerlies. Early last month we had steady winds of 40 and 3' chop eating away at the bank. 25-30 is typical in the late winter and spring.

Tonight I, and 3 neighbors, turn over contracts and checks to a construction firm to run 600' driven steel (4’deep 4’ exposed).. We will be able to recover and backfill 10'. Expect the project to take until December. Then a dock will finally go in (the dock will pay for itself since I won't need to rent a slip.

Care to take a shot at the cost of steel these days :eek:

I'll try to take pics as the project progresses.

p.s. and people think a boat is the only hole in the water you pour money into :D

[Zane]

JD, its hard to believe that they will install all that steel for $2.00 afoot
including the price of the steel.:eek: :eek: Good luck with the project and do show pictures

[Howard/Jax]

JD, all you needed was John Henry Weeks. He is a true steel driving Man.;)

[JD]

Unfortunately Howard, the Steel Drivin' Weeks is offshore killing fish today :D

Here's a partial view toward the bank and looking 2 miles across:

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This is where the wall will begin at the corner of my property (the neighbors to the south were not interested. This area is a bay and you can see the point swinging back west beyond the water tower. I-30 then runs 4 miles across via 2 bridges and a causeway:

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Looking north for 4 properties is where we're going to put in the bulkhead. The bald cypress out in the water used to be 30' from the bank:

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The wall will extend up to the reed bed. Just beyond the reeds there are 4 or 5 properties that are bulkheaded as well. To the north is the Texas Rt 66 causeway and bridge:

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They'll run the wall 10' out from outermost points at the corners of each property. To my left on the south side they'll bring it 20' into the land the property next door will continue to erode. I'll dump riprap into that corner but eventually it'll have to have more steel. But at the current rate of erosion (2'-3' per year) I'll be happily retired to the coast and fishing every day :)

By the way - it's $128 a foot. One heck of a lot more than I paid to bulkhead the home I used to have in Kill Devil Hills, NC. But that was in 1990.