Perdido Pass Boom/Pilings Gone

Hundreds of feet of steel pilings now lie in pieces surrounding Perdido Pass.
"it served it's purpose during the oil spill disaster but we are happy that its out of the way now and our boating waterways are now open," says Alabama Marine Police officer Jon Archer.
What had taken two weeks to install is gone in a matter of days.
With a price tag of more than four million dollars the first-of-its-kind booming system never lived up to it's billing, but it did help, according to Coastal Resource Manager Phillip West. "I'm not sure what was good value in this whole event. The off-shore boom was a complete waste of money and effort. It cost more than the P3 project. Considering what it was protecting it had to be done."
Just a few days ago pilings were in the water at Perdido Pass. Now they are being stacked and stored on city property. But this may not be the last you hear of this particular booming system.
"We think it will be a model. We think other people will use it for similar events around the country or the world," says West.
The removal of the boom comes just in time for one of the biggest boating weekends all season. "All the pilings are gone," says Archer. "There's no more hard boom in the pass there's no more floating boom in the area so that's really opened up all the water so we won't have any accident as a part of that."