Reliable Shoreline Protection for the Safety and Security of Your Investments.

Shoreline protection is a hydraulic engineering structure designed primarily to prevent shoreline erosion. Coastal, river, and lake shorelines are not fixed features of the natural landscape. Floods, water flow rates, tides, and waves all influence changes in the shoreline. Over time, shorelines almost always change, and these changes can affect human activities, especially the infrastructure that has been constructed along the coast. Coastal areas are particularly exposed to intense water forces, making the design and construction of specialized hydraulic structures—shoreline protections—essential.

Today, there are various types of shoreline protection, ranging from massive gravity-based structures to reinforcement using geosynthetic materials.

PVC Sheet Piles are a modern solution, ideal for homeowners in Florida. They combine durability, resistance to harsh environments, low maintenance costs, and an attractive appearance, offering long-term coastal protection for your property.

Marine Innovations uses PVC sheet piles from trusted manufacturers, including:

• CMI

• Vanguard Manufacturing

• ESP

• Truline

• Tidewall

• Creative Composites Group (for composite sheet piles)

Marine Innovations offers comprehensive shoreline protection services, ensuring your property is protected from soil erosion and storms. By using only reliable materials and advanced technologies, we reinforce shorelines, creating safe and durable structures.

When designing shoreline protection in the form of a vertically anchored bulkhead, we perform a stability calculation, which helps determine the appropriate length of sheet piles and their physical-mechanical properties, ensuring they can withstand long-term static and dynamic loads. The anchoring system is selected with consideration for its marine environment use. A well-designed and executed drainage system will prevent your backyard from turning into a swamp after heavy tropical rainfall. Additionally, the drainage system removes hydrostatic pressure behind the sheet pile wall in a timely manner, thus ensuring the structure reaches its intended service life.

Thanks to our unique experience and knowledge of hydraulic engineering, we offer solutions that will preserve the beauty and functionality of your property for many years to come.

Our specialists have successfully completed over 200 projects using PVC, composite, and steel sheet piles.
By entrusting us with your project, you choose long-term quality and proven innovation.

Repair and Maintenance of Shoreline Protection Structures

The typical service life of a PVC sheet pile wall is approximately 50 years. Most walls in Florida have not yet reached this age and do not require replacement or major repairs. However, we recommend regular inspections of existing sheet pile walls. Identifying and addressing defects or damage early can save homeowners significant costs in the future.

Signs of damage include:

• Vertical displacement of the sheet pile wall

• Settlement of soil behind the wall

• Cracks in the reinforced concrete coping beam

• Corrosion of the reinforced steel frame or anchoring system

Damage can be caused by catastrophic flooding, insufficient sheet pile length, excessive hydrostatic pressure on the inner side of the wall, active soil erosion on the face of the sheet pile wall due to wave action (e.g., during low tide), failure of interlock joints between sheet piles, and more.

In many cases, expensive reconstruction can be avoided with localized repairs. Whether it involves replacing one or more panels in the sheet pile row, repairing or replacing individual anchoring ties, or addressing the causes of soil settlement behind the wall, Marine Innovations provides an honest assessment of the wall’s condition and identifies what work is truly necessary.

Call us today for a free inspection, and if needed, we will provide a cost estimate for repairing your shoreline protection structure.