Lake level Nov 2018

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Originally Posted by winni83

For some historical data:

Filled garbage cans with water and put on the dock; not sure how effective that was, but no damage. In July of 1998, the entire lake was a no wake zone for a week or so as I recall.

Did the same exact thing that year. With the wooden docks submerged by just an inch or two they were trying to float themselves up and pulling up on the stakes. Each large rubbish barrel about 55 gallons weighed about 450 pounds each when filled with water, with 8 of them (4 on each dock) it weighed the docks down more than enough to keep the stakes sunken into the sand. I think we used a dozen or so spare cinder blocks too.

After the first day or so with the docks completely submerged (and the weight on top) they more or less got waterlogged and stopped pulling upward.

When the water went down, it was like nothing happened.

Obviously the boats were taken out before hand.