[Awclist] [Fwd: RRFW Riverwire - SOUTH COVE LAKE MEAD UPDATE]

[Thomas Robey]

RRFW Riverwire – South Cove Lake Mead Update

May 1, 2007

With rocks now exposed at the end of the boat ramp and record low water 
levels, Lake Mead National Recreation Area has begun major construction 
at South Cove, one of the two take-out points for river parties rafting 
the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park.

Lake Mead National Recreation Area has approved construction of 
approximately 3,300 linear feet of new roadway over to a new area for 
Grand Canyon river runners to take-out.

A temporary hard-hull launch ramp is being constructed as well. The work 
will also replace the existing asphalt surface with approximately 1,500 
square yards of “V-grooved” concrete.

A National Park Service road crew has arrived to begin work in the area 
and the contractor, Interstate Rock Products of Hurricane, Utah, will be 
on site May 2.

The NPS, facing record low levels in Mead, is chasing the receding water 
at boat ramps all over the reservoir. Lake Mead National Recreation Area 
will spend $318,444 on the work at South Cove alone.

The Bureau of Reclamation notes the reservoir is now dropping a foot 
every ten days.

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