this applet. options Since 1995 SSS has been installing Bulkheads, groins, breakwaters, and boat ramps in Virginia and Maryland. In that time installations totalling over one... blowing over 12 miles of the Potomac River, thereby allowing large waves to build up and pound into the base of the cliff face. A 640 foot long bulkhead with 20 foot groins... was installed in 2000 to replace failing rock revetments and wooden bulkheads. The York river has a three foot tide range in this area and septic fields located at the top of the bank...

seen the standard wooden bulkheads used to protect banks consistently fail from the pressure of the soil pushing against the walls and snapping the deadman or tiebacks that were... as treated wooden boards and post are used as structural members which rot over time. L wall bulkhead/ retaining wall: Each wall is attached to it's neighbors with steel channel... buried key down below the beach stops the wall from moving out from the pressure of the slope behind it.The L wall bulkhead system installations have weathered over 14 years...

walls: T walls can also be used as a retaining wall, either by themselves or as added height on top of other walls or bulkheads. These four images show a T wall built above an existing... wooden bulkhead in Colonial Beach, VA. The walls help stop high waves from over-topping the structure and damaging the property behind it. The last picture shows how Tropical...

lasting than any wood or vinyl bulkhead. They are beneficial to the environment as they cover much less beach and river bottom than rock rip rap.Let SSS provide you with proven...