On Monday 6th August contractors SMC Marine began work on the demolition of the old timber jetty at Mersey Point in the City of Rockingham.
An inspection in 2014 determined that the timber jetty needed to be replaced. Construction of a new jetty, 150m to the north of the old one, began in
September 2017 and was completed by May this year. Recent winter storms caused severe structural damage to the old jetty resulting in it being permanently closed to the public. Work on the demolition should be finished by the end of August.
Some of the timbers from the old jetty will be kept by the city for reuse in interpretive art works and the Rockingham Beach Foreshore Revitalisation will use four of the timber piles.
Timber reclaimed from historic sites is sometimes incorporated into Promotional Products.
There has been a jetty at Rockingham since 1868, when the first jetty was built for loading timber. The completion of the Bunbury to Perth railway in the late 1800s and the construction of the inner harbour at Freemantle caused a decline in the use of the port of Rockingham and its closure in the early 1900s. During the last century, as Rockingham became popular as a holiday resort the Mersey Point Jetty was used for ferry services to and from Penguin Island, where visitors could see penguins, dolphins, sea lions and other wildlife.
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