Hurry Up and Dive Navarre Beach Old Pier

[wjefferis]

Well at least we are supposed to get Ft. Pickens back in April. It still sucks to loose Navarre Pier. Even if they crunched it up into little pieces and left it in the same place you couldn't dive it unless the new pier was quite a ways away from the old site. There are laws covering diving close to operating piers. If it was as far away as the Pensacola Pier rubble was from the P'Cola pier then we may be ok.

 

[Hetland]

the old pier was closed at night, so perhaps the new one will follow the same schedule????

 

[cmufieldhockey8]

We're gonna start seeing Bary wandering aimlessly around the beach with gear and a camera if Navarre becomes undivable.

 

[Hetland]

How many lift bags do you think it would take to relocate a 103ft block of steel-reinforced concrete?

 

[<*}}><(]

Hey, how can they legally clean up the old rubble if removing coral is still against the law? Hmm? :deal:

We need hippies and lawyers! We've got to start preaching to them that they can't destroy the habitat of one of the most intelligent endangered species on the planet... the fin-footed beach diver. Maybe we could get a fuzzy picture of MRXRAY diving there to use for our picket signs?

Failing all of that, maybe we could plant a ton of palm trees all around the pier, and then we could all use a little extra deodorant or something. I defy you to find the fault in that plan!

See, if we do our best to encourage global warming, we may be able to strengthen the hurricanes, and anyone who's ever watched the weather channel can tell you that hurricanes are quite obviously attracted to palm trees.
So, if we set them up correctly, one of the new and improved hurricanes will take the new pier down. (If that's not working, we could always try kidnapping Jim Cantore and strapping him to the pier)

-:fish:

 

[courantpublisher]

Arrrgggh. Not Cantore. Thats like using WMDs on boy scouts. Way too much power!

 

[SeaYoda]

... Even if they crunched it up into little pieces and left it in the same place you couldn't dive it unless the new pier was quite a ways away from the old site. There are laws covering diving close to operating piers. If it was as far away as the Pensacola Pier rubble was from the P'Cola pier then we may be ok.

I thought they were going to place the new pier on the east end of the parking lot (I'm thinking there was a post on this somewhere???). That would probably be far enough away - can't get much further.

 

[SeaYoda]

2007 proposed picture and report found here:
http://bcs.dep.state.fl.us/env-prmt/santarosa/issued/0283709_Navarre_Beach_Fishing_Pier/001-JC/Application/Navarre%20Design%20Report/Navarre%20Pier%20design%20report%20_10%2029%2007_.pdf
Looks closer to the old pier than I first thought and will not be far enough away to allow diving.

 

[SeaYoda]

More info from 2007 here:

http://www.co.santa-rosa.fl.us/engineering/documents/navarrepierworkshop.pdf

 

[SeaYoda]

http://www.co.santa-rosa.fl.us/navarre/pier/PierUpdateDec08.pdf

New info from 2008:

Existing Pier Removal and Disposal: Removal of the existing derelict pier will be a part of the pier construction contract.Several options were explored for the disposal of the existing pier including reuse as an artificial reef in the vicinity of the new pier. Due to the poor quality of the existing pier, additional permitting, design, and construction costs, the reuse of the existing pier is cost prohibitive at this time. The demolition and removal of the existing pier debris has been permitted and will be disposed of in a certified landfill.

Bad news indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!