Fiberglass Grating San Francisco

FRP Platform in San Francisco Bay

The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a US Govt agency located in the Dept. of Commerce. Their office is responsible for gathering the data used to produce the tide prediction tables.

The Fiberglass platform you see here was fabricated by Southwell Corp in Burnaby, B.C. Canada, just north of Seattle, WA. The supports are made from 8″ x 2-3/16″ x 3/8″ C-Channel with two 4’ x 8’ sheets of 1-1/2” Molded Grating. All the holes for the stainless steel hardware were pre-drilled, so when NOAA received the deck pieces they were able to easily assemble the frame themselves.

This location is in the south San Francisco Bay was requested by a group of local and federal agencies involved in restoration of the shoreline. Old salt ponds are having their levees breached and the land inside is being re-graded to recreate the original shoreline topography.

Read more at San Francisco FRP Platform.