When we bought our cabin, there was already a dock on the property.  However, in July of 2004 (before we owned the cabin) a huge rain storm (known as the 1,000 year storm) hit Medford Lakes, NJ, and three dams broke due to extreme lake swelling.  Within a span of 14 hours, Medford Lakes took on 12 inches of rain.  Three dams could not take the pressure, and burst.  Two of those dams were at either end of the lake where our cabin sits. Here is what was left of the damn closest to our cabin:

You can get a picture of just how high the wave of water was traveling right through homes and businesses by looking at the picture below.  The below picture shows an aluminum canoe wrapped around a tree at the level of the flood waters.  This canoe remains here today, as a reminder of what this town went through in 2004.

The Flood of 2004 had taken it’s tole on the dock, so the only safe thing to do was to knock it down, and rebuild it.

Here is the old dock:

Ripping out the dock:

You can see how the force of the flood waters had pushed the pilings:

The new dock: