Fort Loudoun Lake Dock Builder

Fort Loudoun offers a wide range of lots. Near the city, main-channel frontage gets steady boat traffic and wake. Downstream, long coves cut into Knox, Blount and Loudon county shoreline and offer calmer water. A dock that suits a quiet cove may be undersized on an open point, so we size the pilings, framing and walkway connection to your lot’s exposure. On cove lots, the width and depth of the water off your bank set how far the dock can reach, which way the slips face and how the walkway meets the shore.

The lake is also a working river. The lock at Fort Loudoun Dam raises and lowers boats about 70 feet between Fort Loudoun and Watts Bar Reservoir, and barges passing through it carry about half a million tons of cargo a year. A short canal connects Fort Loudoun to Tellico Lake.

Boat docks and shoreline work on Fort Loudoun Lake need a TVA Section 26a permit before construction starts. We prepare and submit your TVA permit paperwork at no charge. You pay TVA’s application fee. Some neighborhoods and jurisdictions require their own approval before a dock can be built. It’s the homeowner’s responsibility to know what their subdivision or jurisdiction requires and to let us know, and we’re glad to assist with any additional permits.

According to TVA, Fort Loudoun is kept at a minimum winter elevation of approximately 807 feet, with a typical summer level between approximately 812 and 813 feet.

Wakes from passing boats wear away an unprotected bank a little more every season. We install riprap and river rock shoreline stabilization, either as part of a new dock project or on its own for a lot that already has a dock.

Our Fort Loudoun work below spans the lake. In Knoxville, it includes a shingle-roof dock with arched openings, sided walls, a lounge deck and jet skis on drive-on ports; a covered dock with a lounge deck and boats on lifts in a wooded cove; and a hip-roof dock with boat slips off a rocky shoreline. Two Knoxville shoreline projects show riprap curving along a lakefront lot and river rock along a grassy lawn. In Louisville, it includes a metal-roof dock with an enclosed storage room at the end of a long walkway; a dock with a cupola at the end of a long walkway along a rocky shoreline; a hip-roof dock with a lounge deck off a riprap shoreline; and Lowe’s Ferry Marina, a long covered marina with a white metal roof, where our crew and barge-mounted excavator built new timber truss framing to extend the covered slips over the water. In Lenoir City, it includes a hip-roof dock with a covered lounge deck at the end of a rope-railed walkway.

Fort Loudoun is closest to home for us. We started in Knoxville in 2008, and our office is on Kingston Pike, open Monday through Friday, 8 to 5. Our own crew designs and builds every dock with our own barges and equipment, and we prepare and submit your TVA permit paperwork at no charge.

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Call 865-765-DOCK (3625). Let’s Talk.