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Drilling at end of developing Santa Cruz Island pier

ARTICLE

Steel Piles for Island Park's Pier
Located 25 miles off the southwestern
coast of California, Santa Cruz Island is
the largest of the five islands that make
up Channel Islands National Park. The
island is rich in cultural history,
magnificent landscapes, and unique
flora and fauna. Ever since the National
Park Service (NPS) and The Nature
Conservancy, who own the island,
embarked on a multiyear restoration of
its natural ecosystem and cultural
resources, Santa Cruz Island has
become a destination for ecotourists,
campers, kayakers and others.
With this influx of visitors, it became
obvious that major improvements were
needed for the critical park infrastructure of the landing site called Scorpion
Anchorage. The previous pier was an
elevated aluminum gangway that was
inaccessible during low tide. Visitors
had to use a ladder and form a bucketbrigade-style line to offload camping
gear by passing items person to person
along the pier gangway. The go-ahead
was given by the NPS to construct the
new Scorpion Pier.

AUTHORS

The pier is designed to improve
access for boats, passengers and cargo,
as well as to protect marine and
terrestrial resources, and to preserve
the historic character of the
surrounding Scorpion Valley.
Jilk Heavy Construction contracted
with the NPS to construct a new
permanent 300 ft (91.4 m) pier, with D. J.
Scheffler & Nye supplying equipment
and drilling consultation services for
the project under Scheffler & Nye's

Peer-to-Peer Partnership program. In
November 2019, the contractor set up
camp on the island to begin
construction.

Pier Specifications
The new Scorpion Pier is an 18 ft (5.5 m)
wide structure that broadens out to a 30
ft by 60 ft (9.1 m by 18.3 m) pierhead.
The pierhead accommodates an
aluminum lift platform that can be
raised and lowered by a propane-

Scorpion Pier construction diagram, with
insert of work
in progress

Josh Jilk, Jilk Heavy Construction and Dale J. Scheffler, D.J. Scheffler & Nye
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