Hemlock Seawall Project: Extended Work Hours Scheduled July 13–18 to Accommodate Low Tides
Hemlock Seawall Project – Extended Work Hours (July 13–18, 2026)
To take advantage of low tide conditions, work hours for the Hemlock seawall project will be temporarily extended during the week of July 13 through July 18, 2026.
The City has heard residents’ concerns regarding the pace of the project, and these extended work hours are intended to help accelerate progress.
Jilk Heavy Construction will perform tide-dependent work during this period. Depending on tide conditions, work may begin at any time between 12:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. on any day during that week.
Please be aware that there will be noise during these early morning work hours. A generator is required to perform this work and will be operating on the lower west portion of the seawall.
A City of Oxnard project representative will be on site during these operations.
There will be an Oxnard project person on site, also if you have concerns you can call the Public Works Sr. Project Manager K.J.May, who we are very happy to welcome back following a deployment! Thank you to Tamara Ojeda – Project Manager, who stepped up in his absence!
KJ May – Sr. Construction Project Manager
Public Works Department, Engineering
305 West Third Street, East Wing, Second Floor
O: 805.393.3871
HEMLOCK COMING UP NEXT
The last phase of phase of the Hemlock project is expected to begin begin following the resurfacing work.
This will be the Seawall Foundation Repairs (work at the base of the wall).
This is the work with the big map for locations indicated in yellow – download or open the image below in a new tab:
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https://channelislandsca.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Mandalay_Seawall_Repairs_Map-2-5-2026.pdf
Hemlock is the only location scheduled for foundation work at this time!
Once completed there are no further known seawall projects for this block on Hemlock.The Hemlock project is an R&D project that will determine methodology for areas in many areas of the Harbor.
In order to fund the work we want to have the best understanding of process, impact, outcome and cost.
Please provide feedback on the Hemlock Project!
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Homeowners on Hemlock and surrounding locations impacted by construction noise, parking disruption, or any other observations or experiences!
Post your feedback on the Hemlock Project! Your feedback is important to us!
We live on Peninsula off of Hemlock, and have not been troubled by any of the Project’s construction activity. We are grateful for this. Having said that, we hope this pilot project not only results in engineering solutions, but also a speedier, more efficient process. Going forward every effort should be made to minimize inconvenience and dock inaccessibility to homeowners. One aspect of this is materials availability. Strongly urge that materials and supplies be in contractor’s possession before beginning a project.
Excellent input! Mark and Inge! Your feedback and comments are totally on point! We are also requesting work schedules that are aligned with Tide tables in the future, so that we can observe the work to windows and recalculate in the event of a weather delay, or ask for reasons if the delays are not explained.
Comments received via email:
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Hi there, we live on Ravoli and have been watching the progress (or non progress) of the sea wall repair on Hemlock. The equipment is being stored in our cul de sac.
The reason for this message is the contractors only seem to be working every other week – if that! They didnt work last week and they’re not here yet, as of today, tuesday. They don’t work fridays. They told us they work on other jobs. This project is slated to take 4 months. However, either it will take a lot longer, or the reason for 4 months is they are hardly ever here.
all of our extra parking is blocked off. We were fine with that, but when nobody comes to work, its very frustrating, knowing this will take alot longer.
Whats up?
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The workers seem to come and go at will. Very little time spent here in the last 2 weeks. I’m Sure they have their excuses.
However, the plastic has torn on a lot of the sea walls, so you can actually see what they’re doing. They’ve made cages for the pilasters (hope thats the correct word). They look like 2 year olds made them. The quality is awful. And this is just from looking from the sidewalk. Someone needs to get over there and look at what they’re doing and what happens next????
In addition, they’re storing, what looks like, trash next to their container in our cul de sac. If it is trash, rats will come and we will not be happy. They need to get it out of here. Can’t imagine what else could be in the bags.
This group of workers just seem like they’re dragging this job. I’d hate for them to be doing my sea wall.