{"id":2445715,"date":"2019-06-25T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/basalt-wave-feature-may-be-tweaked\/"},"modified":"2019-06-25T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T00:48:00","slug":"basalt-wave-feature-may-be-tweaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/basalt-wave-feature-may-be-tweaked\/","title":{"rendered":"Basalt wave feature may be tweaked"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An overturned raft is stuck on a tree in the Roaring Fork River just below the Basalt Wave.<\/strong>
Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The designers of two waves at the Basalt whitewater park in the Roaring Fork River plan to evaluate problems triggered by high water this year and come up with potential changes.<\/p>\n

That was the word Tuesday from Jason Carey and Quinn Donnelly, engineers with Carbondale-based River Restoration, who told Pitkin County commissioners they are aware that waves they designed feature a \u201cstickiness\u201d when flows reach or exceed 2,200 cubic feet per second.<\/p>\n

The waves have flipped several boats in recent days as the river swells with runoff, holding some of the rafts within the wave, they said. The waves are not holding actual bodies in the water, they said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe regret anybody getting hurt on the river,\u201d Carey said. \u201c(But) there\u2019s not a lot of immediate things we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The features were built in 2016<\/a> and tweaked in 2017 to reduce the curl of one of the waves and to create a sneak-through<\/a> on the left side of the river, said John Ely, Pitkin County attorney. However, because of low-water, drought conditions last year, the tweaked design couldn\u2019t be properly evaluated, he said.<\/p>\n

The flows are able to flip boats<\/a> between 2,200 and 3,200 cfs, Carey said. After that, the large flows smooth out the waves, he said.<\/p>\n

Once they evaluate the problems, \u201cwe will provide alternative ideas on potential alterations,\u201d Carey said.<\/p>\n

Still, he noted the waves were designed with \u201cstickiness\u201d in mind to provide recreational water opportunities.<\/p>\n

Board Chairman Greg Poschman said it might be a case of people needing to learn the ins and outs of how to navigate the rapid.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe we\u2019re just still in the honeymoon phase,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople just don\u2019t know the rapid yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

jauslander@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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An overturned raft is stuck on a tree in the Roaring Fork River just below the Basalt Wave.Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times The designers of two waves at the Basalt whitewater park in the Roaring Fork River plan to evaluate problems triggered by high water this year and come up with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 06:59:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}