Lake Retaining Walls and Marine Bulkhead Construction

Innovative Tie Back Systems

In every one of our bulkhead construction projects, a Shoretech Marine tieback system ALWAYS consisting of hot-dip galvanized steel tieback rods is included. These tieback rods are specially designed and manufactured for use in the bulkhead and shoreline retaining wall industry. They are 5/8″ to 1″ diameter galvanized rods that are threaded on each end so the wall can be torqued and straightened after bulkhead construction.

Galvanized steel walls are installed using USA-made steel with a 6″x 6″x 1/2″ thick steel angle iron cap, which is tied back on every third sheet pile, or approximately every 4.5′. This design is not the only design that sets us apart from the others, though.

Shoretech designed and built the first “staggered-anchor” tieback system, which consists of installing each duplex anchor pair at a different distance from the main wall in a repeating pattern, instead of lining all the anchors up in a row where they can much more easily fail. This makes for the absolute strongest walls possible with only a minor increase in cost.

This innovative approach to bulkhead tieback system design has a 100% track record of not a single failure in over 25 years of use. Best of all, it is reusable in 30 to 40 years if the front wall needs replacing. That will save tens of thousands in future bulkhead construction costs as well.