Only 2 feet? I put fish in my pond and where I had the pickup truck parked, if the pond would have been at full pool the whole truck up to the windows would have been submerged in the pond.... My pond is down 6' vertically......... The island? Where the tree branches hang down? That is where the water level should be or even 6" up into the leaves.

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The gangplank should be horizontal. Take a look at the green grass on the other side of the end of the pier. That is where the top of the pier should be. The top of the pipe nearest to the camera at the end of the pier should be flush with the decking on the pier. The cinderblock that has the white pipe running through it on the far left of the picture should have roughly 18"-24" over the top of it..... To give you a size reference on the pier, the skirting going around the pier are 2"x12's.

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