Steel & Heavy Timber Bulkheads
Reinforcement at the water line, built to a design the Corps reviews. Currently the only route to a new bulkhead anywhere on Lake Lewisville, including this peninsula.
Lakewood Village, TX · Denton County
Bulkheads for Lakewood Village — a peninsula with more water than land.
Lakewood Village counts 3.17 miles of shoreline inside its corporate limits, most of it privately held and much of it facing straight down the longest open reach of Lake Lewisville. Shoretech is currently the only contractor permitted to reinforce it.
3.17 mi
Shoreline inside the corporate limits — nearly 7.5 miles counting jurisdictional limits
0.95
Square miles of the town that are water, against 1.00 of land
522 ft
Conservation pool, msl — Corps fee title below this and a band above it
Dec 2027
Current end date of Shoretech's sole authorization to build bulkheads on this lake
Start Here
What can actually be built on this shoreline.
Short list, honestly drawn. New boathouses and new docks are not on it, because the Corps is not permitting them at Lewisville for anyone — and no authorization changes that.
Retaining Walls & Erosion Control
Slope work on the private ground above the federal boundary — no federal permit involved, and the right answer when a large lot is losing ground uphill of the water.
Boathouse Repair & Rebuild
Substructure, decking, roof, lift and electrical on a structure that already carries a shoreline use permit — the realistic route to covered moorage in a town of 1990s custom waterfront.
The Lewisville Authorization
How the Corps came to permit one contractor on this lake, what the December 2027 date means, and what it does not promise.
The Ground You Own
Three exposed faces, mid-lake, at the foot of the toll bridge.
Water on three sides, the longest open reach of the reservoir off the south face, and no upwind shelter.
Lakewood Village sits on a peninsula on the east side of the main body of Lake Lewisville, mid-lake, at the eastern landing of the Lewisville Lake Toll Bridge — the NTTA crossing that carries Eldorado Parkway 1.7 miles over open water from Swisher Road in Lake Dallas. Oak Point is north across an intervening cove, Little Elm is east, and the view off the south and southwest faces runs down the longest uninterrupted stretch of the reservoir toward the dam. Of 1.44 square miles incorporated, 0.95 is water and 1.00 is land, which is a fair description of the place: the lake is not a feature of this town so much as its perimeter.
That geometry is why the shoreline works so hard. The prevailing wind on this reservoir comes from the south-southeast, aligned with the main branch, and the damaging blows above 20 mph come from the same southerly quadrant — arriving broadside onto the peninsula's south and southwest banks with nothing upwind to break them. Add a conservation pool at 522 feet that Texas Parks and Wildlife puts at four to eight feet of normal annual movement, and the working zone of a wall here is a band, not a line.
What sits on top of it is unusually consistent. About half the homes in town are on the water, on large lots under native oaks. The oldest date to a 1970s second-home resort plan that included a golf course, a tennis court and two light-aircraft runways — one of which survives as Stowe Lane. Most of the stock went up in the late 1990s in a heavy stone, pitched-roof, arched-entry custom idiom; Highridge Drive carries half-acre-plus lots with 150 feet and more of water frontage, and Stowe Lane runs to very large lots, some with deep-water moorings off the back. Newer product has come in east of the bridge at The Enclave and The Arbors. The town was zoned entirely residential until 2021, when limited commercial was allowed north of Eldorado Parkway — so most of that 3.17 miles is privately held bank rather than park or common frontage.
Around the Peninsula
Where the work is, street by street.
A town of about 635 people at the 2020 Census, four original sections and two newer additions — and roughly half of it on the water.
The Original Town
- Highridge Drive
- Stowe Lane
- Lakewood Village Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- Section 6
- Lakeview Estates
- Eldorado Parkway
Newer Additions & Land-Side
- The Enclave
- The Arbors
- Lakewood Village Park
- Retaining walls
- Slope & erosion control
- Drainage repair
- Permitted-structure rebuilds
- Site access planning
The Enclave and The Arbors together cover 79 acres and 148 homesites east of the toll bridge — 68 fifty-foot lots in the Enclave, third- and half-acre lots in the Arbors. Lakewood Village Park is inland, away from the water, so it is the private lots along Highridge, Stowe and the older sections that hold most of the bank. Town Hall is at 100 Highridge Drive, 972-294-5555, open Monday to Friday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Send Dave your address and frontageThe Practical Problem
Getting a rig onto a peninsula with no ramp.
Every marine job here has a logistics answer before it has a design. There is no public boat ramp inside the town limits; trailered and barge access stages from Little Elm Park, Cottonwood Park, Hidden Cove or Big Sandy, and everything on wheels comes in over Eldorado Parkway from the toll bridge or from Little Elm. With about a square mile of land, residential streets and no commercial yard space, there is nowhere obvious to lay material down.
None of that is unusual for Dave — but it is the reason a Lakewood Village conversation starts with how you get to your water rather than what the wall looks like. The town has also been through a $6.1 million road improvement completed in 2019 and a $5 million water and sewer upgrade begun in 2022, so current street conditions are worth confirming rather than assuming.
1
Water-side staging
Barge and shallow-water rig work run from the nearest public launch, with material moved by water to a peninsula that has no yard space of its own. Slower to mobilize, far easier on your lot and your neighbours' streets.
2
Land-side access
Large lots along Highridge Drive and Stowe Lane can often take equipment down the side, which changes the economics. It also puts the survey front and centre — the Corps line, not the fence, decides where a machine may work.
3
Local rules on top
Dark-sky lighting standards, a residential-only street grid and 10 to 5 Town Hall hours all shape the schedule. Better to raise them at the quote than discover them on day three.
Straight Answers
Lakewood Village shoreline FAQ.
Half my back yard is bank. Can I put a bulkhead in?
On Lake Lewisville a bulkhead is possible, and Shoretech is currently the only contractor the Corps of Engineers permits to build one. The Corps had stopped permitting shoreline reinforcement here after years of walls built by contractors who did not know how, which failed; instead of reopening the lake they authorized a single contractor working to a design they had already reviewed and a finished wall they had already inspected. That authorization runs through the end of December 2027 and is renewable. It does not make your permit automatic — the Lake Office still decides on your address — but it is the difference between a wall being possible and not.
There is no boat ramp in town. How does a barge or a rig get here?
It stages from somewhere else. There is no public ramp inside the Lakewood Village limits — the nearest are Little Elm Park, Cottonwood Park, Hidden Cove Park in The Colony, and Big Sandy over in Shady Shores. Everything on wheels arrives over Eldorado Parkway, either across the Lewisville Lake Toll Bridge from Swisher Road or in from Little Elm, and the town has about a square mile of land, residential streets and no commercial yard space. That is a solvable problem, but it is a real one, and it gets settled before a start date is promised rather than after.
How much of the erosion talk actually applies to this peninsula?
Be careful with anyone who quotes you a rate for Lakewood Village specifically — there is no published measurement for this town. What is documented is lake-wide: University of North Texas researchers compared 2001 and 2024 satellite imagery at south-southeast-facing backshore sites elsewhere on this reservoir and measured retreat of about 0.72 metres a year on sandstone, 0.99 on terrace deposits and 2.26 on shale, roughly two and a half to seven and a half feet a year depending on material. A low peninsula with three exposed faces on the long axis of the lake is the profile those numbers describe. That is a reason to look at your own bank, not a measurement of it.
Can I add a new boathouse or dock to my Lakewood Village waterfront?
No. The Corps is not allowing construction of new boat houses or docks at Lewisville Lake, and the bulkhead authorization does not change it. The only route to one is buying a property that already carries a permitted structure. That shoreline use permit runs five years, currently costs $35, is not transferable, and the structure cannot be relocated from where it stands — so it is worth having the substructure and lift looked at before closing rather than after. Shoretech repairs and rebuilds permitted structures in place.
Does the dark-sky designation affect construction here?
Lakewood Village has been an International Dark Sky Community since 2019, which constrains outdoor and night lighting in town. Whether that restricts construction lighting or working hours specifically is something to confirm with Town Hall on Highridge Drive rather than assume in either direction — but it is exactly the kind of local rule worth raising before planning any work that would run past dusk, including permanent lighting on a rebuilt structure. Call 936-662-5100 and it goes on the list with everything else.
Nearby
Across the cove and over the bridge.
Three Exposed Faces, One Window
Thinking about the bank behind the house?
The Lewisville authorization runs through December 2027, and permitting on this lake has never been fast — the job that established it took a year. Tell Dave which face of the peninsula you are on, where the Corps monuments fall on your survey, and how a machine would reach the water. Everything else follows from those three answers.