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The Docks
and Swim Float provide significant access to the nine miles (9 Mi) of
waterways and shores that lake Cobbosseconte has to offer. Boating, swimming, and wading are great
warm weather activities. Shows hoeing, cross-country skiing and Ice Fishing
are provided by the lake topped by fifteen or more inches of ice.
Access to
the docks begins with a short walkway that traverses the berm through a cut
in the Rose Hedge that makeup the Waterfront environmental barrier to protect
the lake from storm water runoff. The end of that short walkway meets a fixed
welded steel cantilevered dock structure that stays in place year-round. That fixed section of the dock system
provides a strong attachment point for the floating sections that connect
there.
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The fixed section also makes the transition
down to the fluctuating water level and wave action that can be
significant. The cantilevered structure
stands off above the rocky frontend of the waterfront while reaching out and
down to the water to remain safely above the “Strong Ice” that forms each
winter.
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Three (3)
floating sections of docks connect to the fixed section with just two (2)
“push-pull” locking pins. The floating
sections are easily disconnected from or reconnected to the fixed section
while the floating sections are floated over to or from their winter parking
area where they rest on solid ground when the water level is taken down to
“low pond” by the Water District. In
the spring the water rises to “full pond” with the snowmelt runoff and the
floating docks are drifted back to the fixed section and reconnected.
The Swim
Float is attached to a mooring with a chain that stays on the bottom marked
with a submerged plastic bottle. In
the spring the chain is fetched up with hook at the end of a ten-foot (10
FT.) pole handled from a canoe. Its an operation that can be trying based upon wind and
water conditions but is always interesting and can even be fun to accomplish.
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