[Jim Sammons LJKF]

Even more information than you probably want. Thanks to the kind lady at SIO for sending this to me.

Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier

(1) Background

The Pier at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography is an important
support facility for research and educational activities. It also serves as
a collection site for clean seawater, marine animals, atmospheric and
oceanic data and as a launching site for small boats. Since construction
of the original pier in 1916, the Scripps Pier has been a prominent
landmark on the La Jolla coastline. Since August 1916 the pier has been
the site of daily seawater temperature and salinity measurements, the
longest continuous readings of such ocean parameters. The Scripps Pier
.houses the oldest tide gauge station in the open ocean on the west coast,
installed in 1924.

(2) NEW PIER

Name: Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier, named in honor of Ellen
Browning Scripps, benefactress of Scripps Institution and donor of
$36,000 for the construction of the original Scripps Pier.

Construction; Began February 1987, just south of old pier.

Length: 1,084 feet

Width: 22-1/2 feet

Height: 34 feet above mean lower low water at end
of pier Submarine Canyon: 2,600 feet west from pier - 600 feet deep

Seawater System:

Two new, 1,200-gallon-per-minute (GPM) pumps and one 850 GPM pump,
salvaged from the old pier, supply fresh seawater to a gravity flume
system extending the length of the pier to three large sand filter tanks on
the shore. Secondary pumping systems pump water to two sets of holding
tanks from which it is distributed by gravity to buildings and laboratories
throughout Scripps and the Southwest Fisheries Center at the rate of 1.8
million gallons per day.

Boat Launching:

A 3-ton boat launching hoist lowers boats in support of diving operations
and nearshore biological and underwater research.

Laboratory Space:

Approximately 1,000 square feet house hard-wire links to offshore

computerized instruments, tide gauges, water sampling, and weather

instruments. It also serves as a testing site for various types of

instruments prior to use aboard ships or in other locations and numerous

temporary lab uses for student experiments.

Pier Material: All Concrete

Piling Material:Pre-stressed concrete

Piling Length: 76 feet maximum

Depth: 42 feet below mean lower low water

Design Firm:Ferver Engineering, San Diego, California

Construction:Kiewit Pacific Company, Vallejo, California

Cost: $3,950,000

Funded by: State of California

Research Uses:

__500 boat launchings per year
_Many oceanographic instruments deployed from pier. By using pier scientists an bypass 95 percent of surf
_NOAA wave sensors are mounted on bottom at the end of the pier.
_Plankton samples can be taken from end of the pier in nets or in flume.
_Water temperatures (top and bottom) are taken from end of pier every day.
_Pier gives continuous means of conducting research beyond the surf line without launching a boat.

(3) Old Pier:

Built:
1915-16 at a cost of $36,000

Funding:
Ellen Browning Scripps

Length:
1,018 feet

Width:
20 feet

Construction: Wood with concrete pilings. Pilings had

been reinforced several times over the years to strengthen.

Demolished: Spring 1988