Woodlands Water Taxi Marina
Woodlands, TX
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About This Project
We started this project out by driving schedule 80 hot-dip galvanized steel pipe pilings – capped by a schedule 120 pipe cap, welded out and on the upper end was welded a 1″ thick plate – for the hammer to drive on.
The water is from 6 to 18 feet deep.
The piles were driven in the winter, January actually, and there was ice on the pond. I love this project. The marina consists of prefabricated floating concrete components bolted together and attached to the pilings.
The result is a nice clean structure with a marina store built on a hybrid galvanized I-beam and concrete foundation, with Smart Board siding, metal studs, and roof trusses. Spray foam insulation on a 5″ outer wall.
The project is a pleasing light commercial design with nothing really fancy, yet it offers a long term moorage that will last for decades on the woodlands lake and canal system.
The water taxi system is a nice planned community touch. Things like this are not often seen in the south. Maybe Dallas/Ft. Worth or San Antonio – but not in the Houston metroplex.
As far as I know it’s the only system around. Glad we were a small part of it.