Docks & waterfront structures
Dock and pier repair in LBI & Southern Ocean County, NJ
Tier B · 32 towns covered
Re-decking, new framing, or resetting a dock or pier — usually the same crew and permit as your bulkhead, so often done together.
Waterfront owners here run into this regularly, and the right fix depends heavily on how far it has gone.
How this normally shows up
- A pier frame racking or leaning out of square
- Decking gone soft, split, or springy underfoot
- Hardware rusted through at the connections
- Stringers or joists rotted where they meet the pilings
What the work involves
Docks and piers usually share a crew and a permit with bulkhead work, so it is common to do them together. Repair ranges from re-decking and new framing to resetting the whole structure. Because the pilings that carry a dock face the same tide and salt as the wall, their condition is worth checking whenever the bulkhead is.
$2,000 – $20,000 — 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.