Bulkheads & Retaining Walls
Engineered to last for decades
Shoretech Marine Consulting LLC and Shoretech Marine Construction are the designer and builders of some of the most beautifully rendered and built wood, timber, steel, composite, fiberglass and vinyl bulkheads in the state.
All of our bulkheads and seawalls are engineered so that they will last for decades, and some of the are literally several decades old already. We didn’t lose bulkheads even in hurricane Ike which pretty much removed about 25% of the shoreline on Lake Livingston that year. We even almost lost the dam~!
Our bulkheads are always started on the CAD drawing board and rendered in detail showing the penetration and routing planned prior to construction.
Innovative Tie Back Systems
A Shoretech Marine tieback system ALWAYS consists of hot-dip galvanized steel tieback rods, which are specially designed and manufactured for use in the bulkhead and shoreline retaining wall industry. These 5/8″ to 1″ diameter galvanized rods are threaded on each end so the wall can be torqued and straightened after constuction.
Galvanized steel walls are installed using USA made steel with a 6″x 6″x 1/2″ thick steel angle iron cap, which is tied back on every third sheet-pile, or approximately every 4.5′. This design is not the only design that sets us apart from the others though.
We designed and built the first “staggered-anchor” tieback system, which consists of installing each duplex anchor pair at a different distance from the main wall in a repeating pattern, instead of lining all the anchors up in a row where they can much more easily fail. This makes for the absolute strongest walls possible with only a minor increase in cost.
This innovative approach to bulkhead tieback system design has a 100% track record of not a single failure in over 25 years of use. Best of all, it is re-usable in 30 to 40 years if the front wall needs replacing. That will save tens of thousands in future construction costs as well.
Recent Bulkhead Projects
Crockett Family Resort Marina
Houston County Lake - The Crockett Family Resort Marina Replacement Project - Small slip marina on one of the better fishing lakes in East Texas. We removed the old marina built in the 1980's and replaced it with this new layout.
Lake Moss Cliffside Steel Bulkhead
The last steel bulkhead we installed on Lake Moss north of Gainesville, Texas was at the bottom of a 108 foot cliff that was 156 feet from the top edge to the shoreline.
Lake Moss Large Steel Bulkhead
Before we got to the cliff job, we installed the largest of the steel bulkheads at Lake Moss, a 560 feet long bulkhead that required a huge amount of dirt work to make the hillside useable for the family.
