What is this in Lake Pontch, learn me something

Great question, i have always been curious too.

I was told that it use to be a dock that the would use to transport things to/from boats in the lake to the tracks. Not sure though. It's been the way it is now for years as as far back as I can remember it's was the same way

Good place to catch crabs

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It was for the Christmas Tree program. Where the Corp of Engineers used the trees to form a breakwall.

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I didn't think they had that program 50 years ago? It been there at least that long.

I heard it was an old cattle chute they used to load cattle on barges for transport across the lake... and there are more than that one... at least that's what the people at turtle cove told us on a trip we took down there... who knows if its true or not

nothing like doing 30 in your boat and hitting the remnants of a submerged piling.

I have always wondered about those too.

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That is a old break water seawall.

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I am sixty years old and lived in Little Woods whereas this same kind of breakwater seawall extends along the lake not protected by concrete seawall. While I cannot date it--it's only apparent purpose was to break wave action and to prevent erosion.

It has been there when my dad was a boy growing up [1940's] so it was placed there a long time ago.

It's the remnants of the west break wall at the lake side of the spillway levee end. On the east side (levee) the break wall still exists, it's just crushed rock and such.

Break water