{"id":2453111,"date":"2020-01-10T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/ice-jam-season-has-returned-to-roaring-fork-river-could-release-through-the-winter-months\/"},"modified":"2020-01-10T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T22:36:00","slug":"ice-jam-season-has-returned-to-roaring-fork-river-could-release-through-the-winter-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/ice-jam-season-has-returned-to-roaring-fork-river-could-release-through-the-winter-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice-jam season has returned to Roaring Fork River, could release through the winter months"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The aftermath of an ice jam on the Roaring Fork River during a stretch in 2008.<\/strong>
Chad Rudow\/Roaring Fork Conservancy file photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

An ice jam advisory has been issued for the Roaring Fork River and means water level could quickly rise this weekend through portions of Eagle, Garfield and Pitkin counties.<\/p>\n

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration on Friday issued the advisory, which will remain in effect until 2:15 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n

According to the advisory, conditions exist for ice jam releases along the Roaring Fork River from Snowmass Canyon to Glenwood Springs.<\/p>\n

As of Friday morning, the National Weather Service in Grand Junction said no ice jam releases had occurred, but that conditions are prime for them through Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose really cold temperatures and then warming up really quickly, that just makes those conditions favorable for those releases,\u201d Meteorologist Megan Stackhouse with the National Weather Service said.<\/p>\n

Although a rare occurrence, the breakage of an ice dam can push rushing water carrying sheets of ice and debris through narrow river channels.<\/p>\n

According to the advisory, anyone on or near the Roaring Fork River should \u201cuse extreme caution\u201d through Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the Roaring Fork Conservancy in Basalt issued its own alert due to favorable ice jam release conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing materialized this week,\u201d Rick Lofaro, Roaring Fork Conservancy executive director, said of the advisory set to expire Sunday afternoon. \u201cThe possibility still exists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officials hoped this weekend\u2019s forecasted cooler temperatures would reduce the chances of an ice jam release, but asked river users \u2013 particularly anglers \u2013 to still use extreme caution.<\/p>\n

Last winter, there were a couple of ice jams that released on the river. From Dec. 15, 2018, to Jan. 10, 2019, there were six breaks<\/a>, according to the Roaring Forck Conservancy. A couple of them were caught on video<\/a> and gained nearly 130,000 views.<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The aftermath of an ice jam on the Roaring Fork River during a stretch in 2008.Chad Rudow\/Roaring Fork Conservancy file photo An ice jam advisory has been issued for the Roaring Fork River and means water level could quickly rise this weekend through portions of Eagle, Garfield and Pitkin counties. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]<\/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":["post-2453111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 21:28:28","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\/2453111","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=2453111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}