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PitCo wants to go kayaking with Basalt I Aspen Daily News Online <br />Submit a Nekvs Tip WEATHER <br />Home I Letters & Opinions I Entertainment I Business I Nat'l & World News I Classifieds <br />Read Today's Paper <br />Search Archives <br />Video Gallery <br />Submit your letter online <br />Click Image for Photo <br />Gallery <br />PitCo wants to go kayaking with Basalt <br />by Brent Gardner- Smith, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer <br />Tuesday, February 24, 2009 <br />Login or <br />register to <br />post <br />comments <br />Printer - <br />friendly <br />version <br />Email this <br />Story <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />Current: 34 <br />High level clouds <br />How's the Skiing? <br />Ski Report <br />Outdoor Recreation <br />Movies <br />Games <br />Horoscopes <br />CALENDAR <br />« February 2009 » <br />S M T I W T S <br />1 2_ 3 4 5. 6i 7 <br />8 91101 11. 12 13 14 <br />15 16 17 18 19' 20. 21 <br />22 23 24 25 26 27 28 <br />Submit an Event <br />Dashboard sponsored by <br />Blue Tent Marketing <br />Local News <br />Lora taxi driver robbed at k life <br />point <br />Safety tips from the APD <br />Econory impacts local homeless <br />in many ways <br />Aspen market shoring signs of If Town Council likes the idea, Ely wants Basalt to apply with the county <br />life by March 2 to Great Outdoors Colorado for a $200,000 grant to help pay <br />for the park, which is estimated to cost just over $1 million. <br />No sign of campaign From Lift <br />One developers <br />Speed series_ (hopes) W sta G on <br />Aspen Moun.lain today <br />NEWS BRIEFS <br />Ely has been developing the Basalt kayak park idea for months and says <br />so far he has received positive feedback from "individuals in the kayak <br />and rafting communities, fishermen, representatives of CDOT, officials <br />from the town of Basalt, and members of the consulting firm that worked <br />on the Basalt River Master Plan." <br />Basalt likes kayak park oan <br />"Although the idea of a river park began as a vehicle for enhancing and <br />improving the environmental condition of this particular reach of the <br />Roaring Fork, it became readily apparent that such a recreational <br />resource would be highly prized, widely accepted and utilized by a great <br />number of kayakers and rafters in the mid - valley area," Ely wrote in a <br />memo to Town Council. <br />The stretch of river is just below the low and indistinct "bypass" bridge in <br />Basalt at the intersection of upper Two Rivers Road and Highway 82. <br />Ely put the idea for the whitewater park together after considering a <br />number of factors. He knew that Guido Meyer had once donated the land <br />for Fisherman's Park to Pitkin County, and so the county owns a bit of <br />riverfront property with a crude dirt boat ramp on it, as well as a small <br />parking lot, picnic shelter and restrooms in the park across the street. <br />Ely knew that the state of Colorado now recognizes water rights for <br />recreational purposes, such as kayak parks, and that those water rights, <br />especially in this location where the Roaring Fork River exits Pitkin <br />County, can help ensure that at least a modest amount of water always <br />( ... <br />k �4�t. <br />I . <br />"A T t <br />xr., <br />RESIDENCE CLUB <br />GRAND ASPEN <br />Exchange firm in Aspen for <br />days at 365 luxurious hotels or <br />http:// www. aspendailynews.com /section/home /132706 2/25/2009 <br />