July 2, 2008--Speakers credit spirit of cooperation for success of fish recovery program (Grand Junction Sentinel)
The completion of the $12.1 million diversion, a 900-foot rock channel that bypasses an 8-foot-high concrete dam that formerly diverted water into the Price-Stubb ditch, removes the last obstacle in the upstream passage for native fish in a 290-mile span of the Colorado River from Lake Powell to Rifle. It also marks the end of 16 years of local construction projects in the Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program.
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