An enormous shovel is in the middle of scooping a load of rock on a barge. The operator looks down at the scene from his seat. An aerial view of a crane moving rock from a barge to a sloping shoreline. A building, parking lot, and park can be seen nearby, and boat houses can be seen behind the barge. Mt. Rainier can be seen in the middle distance. A crane lifts a bucket of rock over water and toward a shoreline. A ferry can be seen passing by in the background. An aerial view of a crane scooping rock from a barge with a suspended shovel. Boat houses can be seen behind the barge, and Mt. Rainier can be seen in the distance. A crane deposits a bucket of rock onto a sloped shoreline. A crane deposits a bucket of rock on a sloped shoreline. A building with the words An aerial view of a crane dropping rock onto a sloping shoreline. The shovel on a crane drops rock onto a shoreline while a worker observes from the corner of a barge. The rocky shoreline of Dune Peninsula is made up of several layers as it recedes into the water: small blocks of quarried rock higher up on the slope and rounded rock next to the water's edge. A seal swims past a rocky shoreline. The top of a seal's head and tail can be surfacing near the rocky shoreline of a Puget Sound park.

Point Defiance Shoreline Armor Repair

Date: 2024
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Description

This project continues decades-long efforts to remediate a Superfund site that was affected by a century's worth of industrial activity. Brice Environmental subcontracted with American Construction to install our Streambed Sediment along the shorelines of Dune Peninsula, the Tacoma Yacht Club, and Point Ruston in Ruston, Washington. The US Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency coordinated the project.

Materials

4,800 tons of Streambed Sediment

Highlights

Washington Rock blended a custom streambed sediment mix for the project. We shipped material by barge via Walrath Marine's Port of Tacoma facility. Each barge load had to be prepared in time for the scheduled sailing time.

Watch our video of the project on YouTube.

Read more about the EPA's cleanup efforts here.

Aerial photos by Drone Northwest.

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