About ten years ago, Meredith replaced their Cattle Landing town dock with a new, all-concrete, $125,000 floating dock. Most everyone agrees the old dock that had been in place since maybe 1930 was a better dock because the very end spot was always available for someone to get dropped off, or picked up.
This is no longer possible because that end area now has a large vertical telephone pole piling and attached dock hardware in that spot which makes it tough to drop someone off, or pick someone up.
Supposedly, an ice eater water circulator is not needed for this all-concrete floating dock with its very robust design but it does in fact have two ice eater, water circulators in place every year because the dpw doesn't want to risk the dock getting damaged, or something.
Is the type of a concrete dock that could be used by the Coast Guard for access to their arctic ocean, ice-breaker ship.
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