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The canals and waterways we work
The radius here is set by water rather than by drive time, and each stretch of waterfront asks something different of a wall.
Water depth, boat traffic and the wake it throws, tidal range, soil behind the wall, how exposed the frontage is and how old the surrounding walls are all change what a wall is carrying and what it will cost to put right. A deep canal lot holding back a yard for a large vessel is a completely different structure from a shallow finger canal behind a quiet street — and the two can be a few blocks apart.
These pages describe what is distinctive about each area, and what it means for the wall in front of your property.
Seawalls in Fort Lauderdale
The densest concentration of aging seawall in Broward, on some of the most valuable ground in the county.
Seawalls in Pompano Beach
A long Intracoastal frontage, a deep canal network behind it, and a lot of waterfront built in the same decades.
Seawalls in Hollywood
Quieter water than the reaches to the north, an older housing stock, and walls that have been in the ground a long time.
Seawalls in Lighthouse Point
Deep water, big boats and short runs to the inlet make this some of the most demanding seawall duty in Broward.
Seawalls in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea
A narrow strip of land with ocean on one side and the Intracoastal on the other, and very little room to work.
Seawalls in Dania Beach
A mixed waterfront where residential canals sit alongside a genuinely working marine corridor.
Not listed here and still on Broward water? The mechanisms are the same across the county — tieback condition, soil loss through joints, cap cracking and what is happening below the waterline — so it is worth a conversation regardless.
Talk through your site
Start with the address and photographs of the wall, the cap and the yard behind it. An inspection answers the rest.