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Pueblo Park Receives Repairs(Workers repair the drop in the final feature of the Pueblo Whitewater Park recently.)
Heavy equipment has rolled into the Pueblo Whitewater park to effect repairs after last season’s high flows. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have their subcontractors in the river channel dredging out the pool below the number eight drop, repairing the drop itself and filling in the erosion damage on the river right bank.
The river is currently flowing through the park at 26 cfs which alows for the repairs and the winter storage of water in Lake Pueblo.
Last summer heavy rains upstream caused flows through the park to rise above 4000 cfs. Legally when a large amount of water flows into Lake Pueblo upstream of the park the same amount of water needs to be let out of the dam to satisfy secondary water rights down stream.
Unfortunately this law, while originally drafted with the best of intentions, can cause a great deal of damage downstream from the dam unnecessarily. If the operators of the dam could keep the flows at a bit of a lower level then these repairs wouldn’t be needed.
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(Workers use heavy equipment to dredge out the drop below the eighth drop in the Pueblo Whitewater Park recently.)
Another solution for this would be to build up the bank along river right to prevent erosion behind the wings of each drop. Hopefully this will be considered as I doubt that anyone involved wants to keep having to make repairs each season.
I will continue to update this blog as to the progress of work in the park and give all the beta I can dig up about the park, flows, events and the surrounding area. I am looking forward to another awesome season in the park!
So stay tuned.
