u/JustinLacyTk

Property is on a 75 acre private lake and we are about to bulkhead it and build a 12' x 16' dock. Gas powered boats not allowed. No boat ramp available. Thinking about getting a small (15' to 16') pontoon boat with an electric motor someday.

If we get a boat, I want to be able to 1) lift it out of the water when not in use, and 2) be able to fairly easily put it on a trailer. No structures within 50 feet of the lake (or "in" the lake, e.g., docks) can be more than 3' above average lake level (the lake level is very stable). The water depth at the bulkhead will be 18" to 24", and probably not much more 16' out from the bulkhead. Preferably, the lift should be beside the dock, i.e., I don't want to have a boat slip designed into the bulkhead.

Given the above scenario, is there a good solution for raising the boat out of the water then facilitate loading it on a trailer that has been backed up to the bulkhead? I'm thinking about options now in case anything needs to be considered when building the bulkhead and dock.

Our home (under construction) is located on a small private lake in Texas. The lake has about 75 private residences that take up all the lakefront property.

The previous property owners bulkheaded the property in the 1950's (I think). They used corrugated asbestos panels (probably the asbestos roofing panels from that period). for the bulkheading. The "short dimension" of a panel is 4'. I don't know how long the panels are because they are pushed into the ground at the water's edge (i.e., a bulkhead). The water depth at the water's edge is about 24".

The bulkhead wasn't maintained for at least a couple of decades (maybe more) before we bought the property 22 years ago, so it's in really bad shape. Most of the bulkhead is "missing". We want to replace the bulkhead before the home is complete, so we need to do something very soon.

The bulkhead guy wants to break the panels off at the lakebed and leave the buried panels alone. The new bulkhead will be located further out into the lake by one to fifteen feet to reclaim land that's been lost due to erosion. That means that the remaining panels that are broken off at lakebed level will be covered by a couple of feet of fill dirt.

We are outside of the city limits, so we only have to consider county and state requirements/restrictions.

Does this sound like a good plan? As the property owner, can I bag up the pieces of the panels (I doubt any will be bigger than 24"x24") and transport them to the landfill? Any comments/suggestions are appreciated.