Bay City News
Last weekend’s storm unmoored a dock from Anchor Marina, a privately owned property on Bethel Island in East Contra Costa County.
The 300-foot dock floated into Taylor Slough, and then split into two segments — each more than 100 feet long. One section of dock ran aground at Jersey Island. A second section collided with at least one neighboring dock.
Now the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office and the Contra Costa County Department of Conservation and Development are working to remove the sections of dock from the waterways.
The county has already found a local contractor to dismantle the dock and dispose of the material. As of Tuesday, the contractor was arranging for equipment to be brought to the site.
“It’s frustrating that a delinquent property owner with a history of mismanagement has caused further damage through unsafe conditions,” Supervisor Diane Burgis, who represents East Contra Costa’s District 3, said in a statement. “At the same time, this could have been worse without the county’s cleanup of the site last year, when fuels, chemicals and other pollutants were removed. Without the county’s work, those pollutants could have made their way into the Delta.”