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Snowmelt to raise Lake Powell by 50 feet, open shortcuts

 
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PostPosted: 3/29/2008, 4:09 pm    Post subject: Snowmelt to raise Lake Powell by 50 feet, open shortcuts Reply to topic Reply with quote

Sounds interesting for sure -
From today's Arizona Republic -
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0329lakepowell-ON.html
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Snowmelt to raise Lake Powell by 50 feet, open shortcuts
Associated Press
Mar. 29, 2008 02:14 PM

SALT LAKE CITY - The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says the Rocky Mountain snowpack will raise half-empty Lake Powell by 50 feet, opening a crucial shortcut for boaters for the first time in five years.

The so-called Castle Rock cut - still a stretch of exposed rock - will let houseboats get to the most popular beaches quickly from Wahweap marina on the Utah-Arizona border, shaving a dozen miles off the trip.

Park concessionaire Aramark says it's offering a free day on houseboat rentals plus a $200 fuel credit if the Castle Rock cut doesn't open by June 15, when the peninsula is expected to disappear under 20 feet of water.

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area spokesman Kevin Schneider says a nearly decade-long drought has made impassable many of the labyrinth canyons of the 186-mile-long reservoir. The biggest obstacle for many boaters motoring upstream was Castle Rock.

Impressive Rocky Mountains snowfall will boost flows into the Colorado River, but scientists say one good winter doesn't necessarily mean the end of a long drought.


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PostPosted: 3/29/2008, 6:22 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

Lake Powell is the finest boating I've ever done but I'd stil like it better if the river was the only water in it.
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PostPosted: 3/30/2008, 8:45 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

I try to make myself feel better every time we get hit with more snow but remembering the lakes and rivers need it. Our great lakes have been so low the last few years.
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PostPosted: 3/30/2008, 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

IGO wrote:
Lake Powell is the finest boating I've ever done but I'd stil like it better if the river was the only water in it.


Amen.

It's a breathtakingly beautiful, man-made ecological catastrophe. It's there so I may as well enjoy it, but if we ever get a say in draining it . . . .
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