We had our seawall rebuilt earlier this year, back to how it had been in 2004. It had been destroyed during Hurricane Ivan, and had been repaired piecemeal through the years. We had not seen how it fared with the wind and waves before, once we got it rebuilt we could see where water would splash onto the first foot or so past the wall during high Westerly winds and high tide. Subsequently the grass that we put in dies and some dirt got flushed out. Skipper designed a splash zone to upgrade that area, kind of a reverse french drain with filter cloth 18 inches down, river rock, and castewall blocks to make a nice border for the wall.
Day one we evened the remaining dirt out, put down the cloth and start adding rock and block. One end of the seawall gets a little more wave action, so we set the splash zone back 4 feet in that area and made a nice viewing area for the rip rap habitat.
Days 2 and 3, more rock and block. Luckily there was dirt left at one end that we could move down to areas that had been washed out. We used our Honda Odyssey to do the hauling, she made about 10 trips to Lowes.
Back to boating!
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