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Just a FYI. We put a dock in a public lake. The house was on the SSW side of the lake, we used 2" galvanized pipes and put them at least 1/3 their length into the bottom of the lake. The cross members were roughly 12" above the highest water mark that the lake ever was. They have been in the lake since the late 1970's with no issues. The pier stays in all year long. The lake has seen ice up to 36" thick.