New Shelter Bay boat launch is coming along nicely

The new $2.2 million boat launch being built by BC Hydro at Shelter Bay is rapidly nearing completion. The project consists of a floating walkway and two wooden breakwaters north and south of the new ramp, and a larger and improved turnaround on the side of the ramp. David F. Rooney photo
The new $2.2 million boat launch being built by BC Hydro at Shelter Bay is rapidly nearing completion. The project consists of a floating walkway and two wooden breakwaters north and south of the new ramp, and a larger and improved turnaround on the side of the ramp. David F. Rooney photo

By David F. Rooney

The new $2.2 million boat launch being built by BC Hydro at Shelter Bay is rapidly nearing completion.

Peter Bernacki, who has actively promoted the project, and I, accompanied by Hydro’s Community Liaison Jennifer Walker-Larsen, paid a visit to the new facility being built on the site of the old ramp at Shelter Bay Provincial Park on Friday, January 15.

“This is coming along nicely,” Walker-Larsen said as we walked to the building site from the parking lot.

The project consists of a floating walkway and two wooden breakwaters north and south of the new ramp, and a larger and improved turnaround on the side of the ramp. And all of this being built by local people engaged by Hydro with local materials.

The project is to be completed by April 30. Please click here to view the designs as presented publicly during an open house last August.

Here are some photos of the project:

The new boat launch includes an expanded parking lot. David F. Rooney photo
The new boat launch includes an expanded parking lot. David F. Rooney photo
BC Hydro's Community Laision, Peter Bernacki and Foreman Bill Illidge walk past the pylons that will support the floating wooden walkway. David F. Rooney photo
BC Hydro’s Community Liasion Jennifer Walker-Larsen, Peter Bernacki and Foreman Bill Illidge walk past the pylons that will support the floating wooden walkway. David F. Rooney photo
Those logs, all linked by chains, will form one of two wooden breakwaters — one north of the new ramp and walkway and one south of them. Peter Bernacki photo
Those logs, all linked by chains, will form one of two wooden breakwaters — one north of the new ramp and walkway and one south of them. Peter Bernacki photo
This view from the floating work platform shows workers chatting with Jennifer Walker-Larson and Revelstoke Current Publicher David Rooney. Peter Bernacki photo
This view from the floating work platform shows workers chatting with Jennifer Walker-Larsen and Revelstoke Current Publisher David Rooney. Peter Bernacki photo
Jennifer Walker-Larson poses for a photo with project staff Bill Illidge, Steve Degenerness, Michael Boruch and Dylan Maltby. Peter Bernacki is on the far background talking with another member of the work crews. David F. Rooney photo
Jennifer Walker-Larsen poses for a photo with project staff Bill Illidge, Steve Degenerness, Michael Boruch and Dylan Maltby. Peter Bernacki is on the far background talking with another member of the work crews. David F. Rooney photo

 

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