[Awclist] [Fwd: RRFW Riverwire - Diamond Creek Flashflood Delays River Runners]

[Thomas Robey]

RRFW Riverwire - Diamond Creek Flashflood Delays River Runners

September 1, 2007

 

Summer monsoons caused flash flooding damage to the Diamond Creek road 
on Thursday August 30.

 

Road crew maintenance workers from the Hualapai Nation were unsuccessful 
in opening the dirt road that runs right down the creek bed on Friday.

 

The twenty-six mile Diamond Creek road makes multiple creek bed 
crossings on its way from Peach Springs, Arizona, to the Colorado River 
at the mouth of Diamond Creek.

 

For its final mile, the dirt road travels in the wash bed of the narrow 
Diamond Creek canyon.

 

80 people from four river trips were scheduled to take off the river at 
Diamond Creek on Friday. At least one of the river trips, after waiting 
into the early afternoon to see if the road would be opened, decided to 
travel on downstream to the next take out, an additional seventy-one 
miles downstream.

 

Hualapai maintenance workers hoped to have the road open today to four 
wheel drive vehicles.

 

River runners are advised not to plan tight schedules for returning home 
after a river trip if the trip includes a Diamond Creek take-out during 
the monsoon season.

 

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