Bulkhead & Seawall Repair in Poquoson, VA
Hampton Roads Bulkhead repairs and replaces bulkheads in Poquoson, Virginia. This is a waterman's city, low and laced with marsh creeks off the Back River and the open Chesapeake Bay, and almost every lot has a wall between the yard and the water.
Poquoson is about as low to the tide as a city gets on this coast, and it floods readily. That puts a hard job on every bulkhead in town. The marsh creeks are sheltered, but the tide is relentless and the ground is soft, so walls settle, lean, and drain their backfill, and the lots facing the open bay take wave energy on top of it. A failing wall here can mean a yard turning back into marsh.
We build for this ground. Soft marsh soil needs the toe and the anchors sized to hold in it, and a rotted timber wall is best replaced with vinyl sheet pile that will not rot back out. Along the marsh edges a living shoreline is often the right answer and the one the state prefers. We fix the wall itself; we do not pump foam into a Poquoson yard and call the marsh held.
Bulkhead work in Poquoson runs through the Joint Permit Application to the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, the Army Corps, and the city wetlands board. We handle the permit side for what we build.
Call (757) 555-0182 for a free estimate on bulkhead work in Poquoson.