LAKEPORT, Calif. – The construction of a new seawall at Library Park has been rescheduled to the end of January.
City Public Works Director Doug Grider originally had estimated in November that the project would start on Dec. 23. Last month, he updated the Lakeport City Council to report that the contractor was to get the sheet pile through the holidays in order to start by Jan. 6.
Grider has since reported that the sheet pile manufacturer had a breakdown and so the sheet pile won’t be ready until the end of January.
The cinder block seawall was destroyed in the February 2017 storms as the result of being battered by heavy waves, as Lake County News has reported.
In November, the Lakeport City Council held a special meeting to approve the contract with West Coast Contractors Inc., which also does business as Oregon West Coast Contractors, which is based in Coos Bay, Oregon. The company specializes in such projects.
West Coast Contractors’ bid came in at $799,773, well below the city’s $1 million cost estimate.
Grider and his staff have pursued a difficult and complex process through the Federal Emergency Management Agency to get funding to build a new 534-foot-long wall at the 100-year flood level.
As a result, FEMA will pay for all but a 6.38-percent match the city will be required to cover, which will come from the city’s insurance.
The city’s goal is to have the project completed by the spring in order to be able to have the chain link fence that has cordoned off the damaged seawall and sidewalk removed for the busy summer season.
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Work on Library Park seawall set to start at end of January
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