About Mobile Bay Bulkhead: planning help built from public records

What this site is

This is a planning and help site for people who own shoreline walls and docks on and around Mobile Bay, Alabama. It covers Mobile, Daphne, Fairhope, Spanish Fort, Dauphin Island, Bayou La Batre and the shores in between.

Alabama owners usually say bulkhead. Others say seawall. The site uses both words for the same job: a wall that keeps the yard from sliding into the water.

Each page tries to answer one question. Who permits the work? What does the wall face in a storm? What should you ask before you hire anyone?

How the research is done

Every local fact comes from a public record. That means a permit office page, a city ordinance, a state rule, a public bid, a NOAA gauge or a National Weather Service storm report.

• Permit offices and their phone numbers come from each city, town or county page.
• State rules come from Alabama code and agency pages such as ADEM's coastal program. ADEM coastal program Federal rules come from Corps of Engineers documents.
• Water levels come from NOAA gauge stations around the bay. NOAA gauge network
• Costs come from public bids and published price guides, and are shown as planning ranges, not quotes.

When a rule could not be found, the page says so. It does not guess.

How pages are kept current

Offices move, fees change and ordinances get rewritten. Local offices, ordinance pages and gauge data for this site were last checked in early November 2026.

Pages that depend on a fee or a phone number name the office, so you can confirm it before you drive over or send money. If you find something out of date, tell us through the contact page.

Read how facts are chosen on the editorial standards page.

About the pictures

The images on the home page and the feature pages are AI-generated scenes. They are not photos of real projects, real homes or real addresses.

Nothing on this site shows a finished job by a named company.

The responsible publisher

Published by Mobile Bay Bulkhead. Editorial contact: contact@mobilebaybulkhead.com.

Each page draws on Mobile Bay permit offices, local ordinances, public bids, tide gauges and storm reports.