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Summifl-Da�13 for Breckenridge, Keystone, Copper and Frisco Colorado - News Page 1 of 2 4 low i l'[Sc copper kSttJll M /SUNNY 57° breckenridge Brought to you by Dillon Dam Brewery Search: Classifieds I Place an Ad Breck kayak park deals with damages JANE STEBBINS April 13, 2004 to Print Friendly Email Th BRECKENRIDGE - The same high water that kayakers love to ride in the spring runoff in Breckenridge's whitewater park has seriously damaged three structures in the 3- year -old course. The repair work goes beyond normal "tweaking" of the Blue River amenity. Designers routinely examine new parks after a year of use to see how the river flow has affected structures within the river. They then tweak them to improve the course and ensure there are no safety issues. The town budgeted $20,000 to tweak the park this summer. That work will include rebuilding 80 percent of a structure in the first phase and modifying the faces of three other structures to provide a better whitewater experience. In the second phase, eight large boulders need to be reset, and one structure's face must be modified. The cost of that tweaking is estimated to be $18,150, which is $1,850 below the budget for course modifications. But now, the town must come up with more money to repair damage found last month. !Mountain Biking in The Rockies? Frier Pack N Ship fn tm hout of Sum m k Gourrty Arthaftid , Contact Us At 970 or www.FriscopacknsNp.com Town staff knew of one feature that needed to be repaired near the north -end pool by Valley I But during a recent tour of the park, they were surprised to find two other features had been sf damaged by erosion of the east bank of the river on which they are built, town manager Tim ( Wedding Ideas "The dirt is looser, not like the harder rock we usually encounter," he said of the embankment Community the whitewater park wasn't there, we would probably experience something like that in higher Scenic Photos in the whitewater park, where water is concentrated in higher volumes, (the erosion) began sh NEWSPAPERS quicker than it would have in a more natural state." Aspen Times Citizen Telegram Repair estimates won't be known until about halfway through the work, open space and trails Leadville Chronicle Heide Andersen said. And those costs will be above the $20,000 set aside for tweaking. Post I ndependent Post http: / /www.summitdaily.com/ apps /Pbcs.dll/article ?AID= /20040413/NEWS/104130012 4/14/2004