Officials with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) said the final inspection is coming up in just days.
“That final inspection has been scheduled for October the fourteenth, so as long as all the required items are complete by October the fourteenth, very quickly after that, we should be able to open it to the general public,” said ADCNR Director of Saltwater Fisheries, Scott Bannon.
Bannon said the original, wooden pier was closed in 2014 because of structural issues. The state secured $2.6 million in funding through Natural Resource Damage Assessment and began a rebuild more than two long years ago. The project has been plagued with setbacks. “We went through a very lengthy process to have it designed and then have it bid out. The, our timing just didn’t work out as well as we would have thought. It went into COVID. It went into Hurricane Sally. We had so many different weather delays along the way in addition to the material delays that we ran into with COVID,” explained Bannon.
At one point, contractors couldn’t get the steel needed for construction and everything went on hold. Then, the materials came but every contractor working on the project was down because of labor shortages. If all checks out in mid-October, the pier could be back open to eager fishermen as early as the afternoon of the 14th.Download the FOX10 Weather App. Get life-saving severe weather warnings and alerts for your location no matter where you are. Available free in the
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