There's some pretty cool stuff going on here, esp if the Sandy refugees would like to maintain their real estate.

https://inspirationgreen.com/floating-homes.html

A friend has a floating cottage on Lake Allatoona in GA, and the Corps of Engineers has tried for years to get them outlawed. This is the same on any waterway they conrol. However, if you put a trolling motor on the back...

I'm thinking if you have a decent waste water system in place, you should be golden. I think that's where a lot of the heartburn is.

Army COE can't find their way out of a wet paper bag IMO.

My uncle worked for the COE for his entire career. From the horse's mouth: "It's a great pension, but I spent forty years working with idiots."

Summed up nicely. We fight with those guys constantly out in our community; check the common sense at the door in a meeting.

Back to the houses though; I like the idea of telescoping piling in order to keep from drifting off the footprint; it's rather cool.

We use a similar system on docks on the lakes around here that are highly variable in water level, except our poles usually don't telescope, The dock has a pair of rings in which the pole slides. The poles just rest on the bottom, and are not anchored except by their own weight, and usually have a windlass system to raise the poles when necessary to move the dock out when the water level really drop. Some gangplanks telescope, but not many. The alternate system is a gangplank anchored on shore and two guy wires to shore to triangulate the dock system with the shore.