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Kayak events canceled Associated Press BRECKENRIDGE — All scheduled events at the Breck- enridge Kayak Park have been canceled due to record -low wa- ter levels in the Blue River. That includes kayak rodeo events, which would have kicked off thi§ week, and the opening ceremony for phase two of the Whitewater Park, original- ly slated for June 7. "All we really need is an aver- age winter," said Franklin !: Crowe, assistant manager at Summit Kayak. "When we get some winters again, well have that play : park kicking. We've just had the driest (climate) we've had in a long time. It's a matter of timing. We just need a , good, steady day of rain and the water would likely come up to passable." Breckenridge water officials have predicted that the Blue is at its peak this week, but some in the in the kayak industry are still hoping a good rainfall might change that. "It looks Like the Blue River flow right now is about 35 (cubic feet per second)," said Heide An- dersen, open space director for the Town of Breckenridge. "What's quite 'a bit more than it has been, like. three times as much. It was about 13 (CFS) for a while. At this time last year though, we had up to 200 CFS." Even last year, though, water levels were about 60 percent of average. To make the opening ceremony for the second phase of the Whitewater park possible, Breckenridge was considering releasing 150 CFS from the Goose Pasture Tarn above the Blue. It decided that wasn't pos- sible because of the low water levels throughout the county. "We thought it would look bad in terms of wasting water, given the drought situation," An- dersen said. "It would look bad in terms of wasting water on rec- reation when people are having their wells go dry and that sort of thing."