Work will strengthen and enlarge landmark structure, popular with tourists and locals for generations
It was arguably the most dramatic image from the powerful storms that battered Northern California’s coastline in January: The Capitola Wharf, an 855-foot-long landmark that dates back to 1857, torn in half by pounding waves.The heavily damaged Capitola Wharf juts into Monterey Bay on Thursday Sept. 7, 2023. The damage sustained in huge storms on Jan. 5, 2023 will be repaired as part of a $7.7 million project that begins this month.
Where now only three wooden pilings prop up each section, crews will increase it to six, driving 120 stronger fiberglass pilings 20 feet into the Monterey Bay sea floor, and wrapping other wooden pilings in protective composite sleeves. They will repair the 40-foot chasm in the structure, with crews starting on the shore, and slowly moving forward to upgrade every few feet of pilings and decking, like a train inching down the tracks.
Capitola Wharf has been seriously damaged before. In 1983, big storms smashed 35 feet off its end and destroyed a 30-foot section in the middle. Before that, a 200-foot section failed during the winter of 1913, stranding a fisherman on the end who had to be rescued.“Anything we put in the ocean is going to fail sooner or later,” Griggs said. “Under the right conditions — big waves and high tides — it is going to get battered.
“That wharf and the businesses along the esplanade are what drives Capitola’s economy,” Griggs said. “The city council and mayor wouldn’t be very popular if they said, ‘No, we aren’t going to fix it.’”
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