Bulkheads & seawalls
Bulkhead cap and wale replacement in LBI & Southern Ocean County, NJ
Tier B · 32 towns covered
A new cap and wale — the parts you walk on and see — to restore the top of a wall whose sheeting below is still sound.
If this is what your wall is doing, you're not the first owner on this stretch of bay to run into it.
How this normally shows up
- Trip hazards or exposed hardware along the top of the wall
- The horizontal wale behind the cap rotted or rusted
- A timber cap gone soft or splintered underfoot
- A concrete cap that has cracked or crumbled
The usual approach
The cap and wale are the parts you actually walk on and see, and they weather first. Replacing a cap — concrete or vinyl over the sheets — and swapping a rotted wale restores the top of the wall and protects the sheeting and hardware below it. Often done on its own when the wall underneath is still good.
$60 – $140 per linear foot — typical range, not a quote. What your home needs can only be settled by a registered contractor who comes out and looks at it.
Start early — the state review is the long pole. Tidal-water construction pulls in an NJDEP waterfront development or CAFRA approval and tidelands documentation before a single sheet is driven. A local marine contractor knows how to move it along.
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Towns we cover for this
Only the areas where this work actually applies.
Lagoon & canal communities
Dredge-and-fill neighborhoods where nearly every lot has a bulkhead on a sheltered canal. The dense heart of the work.
Open bayfront
Mainland and bay-edge shorelines with real fetch, where wave energy is high and riprap comes up as often as a vertical wall.
Barrier island & inlet
Long Beach Island end to end, from Barnegat Inlet down to Holgate — high exposure, salt air, working waterfront, and the biggest replacement jobs.
Northern barrier island & bay
The northern barrier island strip — Lavallette and Ortley Beach — where the work sits on the bay side and takes fetch straight across open Barnegat Bay from the west.