Lake Powell boating shortcut to be deepened
Associated Press – February 14, 2009 12:04 PM ET
PAGE, Ariz. (AP) – A popular shortcut that allows boaters on Lake Powell to get from launch spots at the lake’s largest marina to its most popular beaches and coves will be deepened beginning next week.
Castle Rock cut just north of the Wahweap marina was opened to boaters for the first time in five years last summer as drought conditions eased, but it closed again in November as lake levels again dropped. The shortcut allows boaters at the reservoir on the Arizona-Utah border to shave about 12 miles off a trip to the lake’s upriver areas.
Loa, Utah-based Brown Brothers Construction will remove about 15,000 cubic yards of sandstone from the cut, allowing boats to traverse it when lake levels drop. The National Park Service says it plans to deepen it again if lake levels drop further in coming years because of drought.
The area will be closed to boaters while the work is done.
adkramoo
This seems odd…..this bypass has been open recently, but has also been high and dry by 80 feet in the last few years also. So all this work is going to deepen passage how much? And will that matter much on a reservoir that fluctuates so much? How often will it matter and how much will this cost?
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Lake Powell boating shortcut to be deepened
Associated Press – February 14, 2009 12:04 PM ET
PAGE, Ariz. (AP) – A popular shortcut that allows boaters on Lake > Powell to get from launch spots at the lake’s largest marina to its > most popular beaches and coves will be deepened beginning next week.
Castle Rock cut just north of the Wahweap marina was opened to boaters > for the first time in five years last summer as drought conditions > eased, but it closed again in November as lake levels again dropped. > The shortcut allows boaters at the reservoir on the Arizona-Utah > border to shave about 12 miles off a trip to the lake’s upriver areas.
Loa, Utah-based Brown Brothers Construction will remove about 15,000 > cubic yards of sandstone from the cut, allowing boats to traverse it > when lake levels drop. The National Park Service says it plans to > deepen it again if lake levels drop further in coming years because of > drought.
The area will be closed to boaters while the work is done.
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