July 22, 2008--Palisade rearranges park over concern for fish (Grand Junction Sentinel)
Officials hoping to build a whitewater park in Palisade will arrange boulders in the river in the same shapes used upstream at the Price-Stubb Dam if they win approval for the project. Federal officials suggested that the city place the rocks in a chevron shape at various locations along the stretch of Colorado River near Riverbend Park, Town Administrator Tim Sarmo said. Federal officials this spring completed $10 million worth of work on the Price-Stubb Dam to reopen the top of the ancestral range of the endangered Colorado pikeminnow and razorback sucker.
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