Anonymous
Update by the City of Goleta
The PRC 421-1 and 421-2 oil and gas decommissioning work is progressing on schedule and is going incredibly well.
Crews have removed the huge concrete caisson walls on PRC 421-1 and will start removing the second caisson walls later this week, continuing into early next week. It is exciting to see the walls almost entirely gone. Once both caisson walls have been removed, crews will start dismantling the piers. The caisson wall removal is a huge milestone in this important oil and gas decommissioning and beach restoration project along a pristinely beautiful stretch of the Goleta coastline.
The entire project is on track to finish by 2023.
Photos below show the work being done, courtesy of the State Lands Commission.
Ellwood Oil Pier Coming Down
By an edhat reader
Taken on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022. The old Ellwood Oil Pier is coming down. (see above photo)
Not the pier. One of two oil pump stations. This project has been detailed in the Independent for months!
https://www.kcbx.org/environment-and-energy/2022-11-16/goletas-last-two-offshore-oil-piers-at-haskells-beach-are-being-torn-down
Looks like they’re calling ’em piers.
Goleta’s last two offshore oil piers at Haskell’s Beach are being torn down. Deconstruction of PRC 421-1 and 421-2 at Haskell’s Beach. From the shores of Haskell’s beach in Goleta, you can see two rusty old piers in the distance being slowly demolished by heavy machinery.Nov 16, 2022
4:50 – Yup, but people also call the wooden wharf structure near the Bacara the “pier” so it was good to find out they’re not taking that down!
That’s the remnants of the old facility, but not the actual wooden pier, right? I really hope they don’t pull that down. Some great fishing near it!
Sac, i was thinking the same thing. Although i generally only get salad around that spot, but i have caught a few big halis there and even caught a white sea bass there years ago. Near that spot, closer to the pier on the other side of the Bacara, is far better fishing. In fact there is a freedive spot right off the beach there that some friends call it Jurassic Park. It’s a deep pit with a lot of structure….and big tasty things live in it. 🙂 think of giant scallops, lobster, crab, rockfish and halis as well as sheepshead.
ZERO – nice! Will have to check that out!
Here here Sac! Couldn’t agree more.
Hear hear?
Guess not many people care where the swallows will be nesting now.
Plenty of freeway overpasses, plus the remaining pier.