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"I can't tell you how much money these parks generate, but how can you put a
figure on people coming to your town and having fun?" asks Lacy, as he points
to several groups of people in business suits who have gathered on the rocks
next to the Golden park for a lunch break. "Look at them. How much is it that
worth?"
Gary Lacy in
The Denver Post - May 29, 2000
- Jason Blevins Denver Post
"I think it's important that we provide recreation for everyone, not just
softball fields or baseball fields," said Charles W. Fagan, the parks and
recreation director in this city of 17,000 about 20 miles west of Denver. "We
anticipated it to be popular. We had no idea how popular."
SUN NATIONAL STAFF
- Stephanie Desmon - Published on August 6, 2001
What Whitewater and Freestyle Kayaking are all About
Freestyle Moves
Playboating
Safety
Read page 9
Project Designs
Rock Vane Structures
by Professional Hydrologist D. L. Rosgen
Two Rivers Project
in Montana
Salida, Colorado's
Arkansas R. Project
Palisade to Fruita
Colorado R. project
Ocoee River Project
Ocoee River
Grave Whitewater Park
(Europe)
Minnesota Whitewater Park
Positive Impacts of a Whitewater Park
Competing in the Age of Talent
Current Deflectors
by the Ohio DNR
Eddy Rocks
by the Ohio DNR
Gravel Riffles
by the Ohio DNR
Stream Restoration
by the Iowa State Extension Service
Improving Fish Habitat
Existing Whitewater Parks
Wausau, WI
East Race
South Bend, IN
Confluence Park
Denver, CO
Much more
useful info
Various Design Ideas for Our Local Parks
Pool/drop profile
The above profile is from an
article published in Hydraulic Engineering, Proceedings of the American
Society of Civil Engineering Hydraulic Division, Aug. 4-6, 1996. Vol. 1,
pp.714-72. by Rick McLaughlin and Roger Grenier, entitled
"Low-Head Drop Structure hazards: Modeling of an Abrupt Drop Boat Chute."
All of the following ideas are
VERY SIMPLE
- I don't understand why people have to throw up so many road blocks.
Installing rock vanes, aka "wing dams" is a tried and true method to put the
current where you want it and protect the banks. It also puts structure in the
water which creates deeper holes and slower water for fish and the
macroinvertibrates they feed on.
If there are any hydraulic engineers out there - once the movers and shakers in
Iowa realize the positive economic impacts this is going to have, there is
going to be a mad dash to create whitewater where ever feasible. The engineers
in Colorado are too busy with their whitewater projects to even think about
other states. Their engineers are engineering turbulent water back into their
streams while ours are creating laminar flows and ignore the whitewater
potentials. So now is your chance to corner the market on whitewater. Once a
course crops up in our area of the midwest other states will be looking for
help.
Camp Comfort
after completion
Cedar Falls' park
Rock vanes would be used to concentrate the current over or through the
structures. Much of the needed material is already in the river and could
merely be moved to the desired locations. If we add any new material, we take
an equal amount out of the river.
Waterloo's course
We have revised our proposal to put the course next to shore on the north
side and cut back the wall for river access.
Shell Rock's spillway
We could have a double drop structure here very easily.
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