Masonry Magazine October 2011 Page. 16
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New Face for East Pier
PHOTOS COURTESY OF JIM MAGUIRE OF MAGUIRE PHOTOGRAPHICS
Located on Lake Erie, 40 miles west of Cleveland in Lorain, Ohio, East Pier originally was constructed in the mid-1960s by the US Army Corps of Engineers as a navigational improvement for the harbor. It consists of cylindrical steel sheet pile cells capped with two feet of concrete. The technical name for the structure is the "East breakwater shorearm." However, locally, it is referred to as the "East Pier" or "Mile Long Pier." In fact, the structure is 2,332 feet in length.
In 1978 a major change was made to the structure through the construction of a rubber-mound armor stone confined disposal facility along the eastern edge of the pier to contain dredging's from the harbor and the nearby Black River. The capacity of the structure is 1,850,000 cubic yards, encom-
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