Campground Marina

Plans

Getting Started

About This Project

Our newest project is our most exciting one in years~!!! Originally posted as a 57,500 square feet project – and even though that would have immediately been the largest marina on Lake Livingston – by a considerable amount – it just got a WHOLE LOT LARGER. The project will be over 70,000 sq. ft. with a 760 feet long specially designed angled timber wavebreak – designed specifically to break up the normal crest to trough travel of a wave by cutting into the crest using 60 degree angled 2″ x 6″ full dimensional timbers spaced 4″ apart. This cuts the wave up and flattens it, removing its power.

The newest design package was submitted to the US Army Corps of Engineers again in December – with the pre-approved blessing of the Trinity River Authority and TECQ. We were told to expect a 75-90 day permitting period – mainly due to public notice. We can now do that on a public website. Finally the government is moving into the information age… so that means I have to also.

This (now 180+) slip Marina will service the Onalaska area for many decades to come. Shoretech Marine Consulting LLC has been chosen as the lead designer and construction contractor for the entire project which is the largest project we have done on Lake Livingston since we designed and built the Lakeside Marina in Onalaska at the big bridge back in 2005-06.

This project is expected to start sometime in 2019 and last long beyond as the slips rent out – to be built in phases as it fills up.

The marina is designed purposely with easy future expansion in minoverd, running parallel to the highway, it is possible to build well over 200 slips here if the demand exists.

Since all the other marinas on Lake Livingston are now at 100% capacity, and running out of expansion room, this is really the only expandable design that makes perfect sense.

Here is the latest preview of the new project – for 2019~!

CAMPGROUND MARINA – MULTI-AGENCY PERMITTING PROCESS:
Not Your Normal Everyday Permitting Process

Though it doesn’t look like much yet, the basic footprint of the new 180 boat slip Campground Marina project has been laid out for inspection. The Trinity River Authority requires the footprint of the coverage of the marina, and its 500 feet long timber wavebreak – must all be staked and painted with special dayglow markers.

The agencies that must approve this project include the TRA, the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and finally, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department of the US Fisheries & Game Bureau, which are all US governmental authorities.

As with all governmental permitting processes, this takes a while – especially if anyone doesn’t follow the process perfectly. Reams of paperwork and design drawings, written evaluations, studies, historical and architectural guidelines and public notice processes must be followed to a degree not normally encountered by normal everyday residential project permitting.

This process has been quite seamless and enjoyable throughout, and the normally expected, and encountered “bumps in the road” have seemed like tiny cracks in the pavement while we travelled at full speed down the permitting interstate.
When professionals do their jobs, the process goes according to plan. This one certainly has. Learning along the way will add to our experience for the future projects that are piling up. Thanks everyone for a great experience on this one!

Ray and Adam Wilner, my old RED friend Ron and the rest of the “Ray’s Marine Construction” team has been a highly professional, elemental part of the perfectly chosen team – Working with experienced and highly talented people like you has made the survey portion of the project so easy.

Surveying a 78,000 sq. ft. project in a single day by GPS location was made into a simple task – because it certainly could have been different had everyone not known what they were doing.

Thanks to you and your experienced crew, the process was quick, with GREAT results~!!! Now we are ready to drive the first 260 of the thousands of pilings that will make up the bulk of this new multi-million-dollar commercial marine project.

I am glad we are working together on this one Ray~! Again… as usual, it was even, dare I say…. fun.