The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation has decided to repair the 80-year-old pier at Jericho Beach, despite a previous recommendation to dismantle it. The pier suffered significant damage from a storm surge and king tide in January 2022.
VANCOUVER BOARD OF PARKS AND RECREATION — The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation voted recently to repair the 80-year-old pier at Jericho Beach, rejecting a previous staff recommendation to dismantle the structure.
The pier at Jericho Beach Park was originally part of a Canadian Air Force base that was established during the Second World War.VANCOUVER BOARD OF PARKS AND RECREATION — Jericho Pier had suffered moderate storm damage in November 2021, which led to its being closed. Two months later, in January 2022, a combined storm surge and king tide caused additional and serious damage to the pier. Its deck was flooded and log debris destroyed much of the structure.
According to Andrew Seeton, the board’s senior engineer and engineering team lead, like-for-like repairs means replacing damaged decking, guardrails, beams, pile caps, piles and conducting selective repairs to the ramp and float.The staff report said like-for-like repairs was not a good idea because of high expected maintenance and operations costs.
Staff recommendations notwithstanding, park board commissioners — who are elected to their posts — voted for like-for-like repairs to the derelict structure, with the intention of reopening the pier to its previous service level.The commissioners who voted for repairs say the pier is well loved by residents and visitors alike.
In contrast to Vancouver’s experience with Jericho Pier, the City of White Rock, a small city 26 miles south of Vancouver on the Canada-U.S. border, repaired and reopened the significantly longer White Rock Pier in August 2019, approximately eight months after the structure was severely damaged by a windstorm in December 2018.
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