Garfield County rescuers are searching for a body in the Colorado River, after a woman said she spotted what she believed to be a person in the current east of the No Name exit off Interstate 70 this afternoon.
After searching for hours, divers and searchers along the river found nothing, said Tanny McGinnis, a spokeswoman for the Garfield County Sheriff’s Department.
They knocked off for the night at dark and will resume in the morning, she said.
“We want anyone who knows of someone who hasn’t returned from the area to let us know immediately, to call 9-1-1, because we want to get that information recorded,” she said.
She urged anyone who finds an abandoned kayak or raft or abandoned fishing gear to report that information, as well.
Searchers were were checking campgrounds, looking for abandoned cars and checking anyplace else that might yield clues of a missing person, she said.
The river is cold with the beginning of the spring snowmelt, but it’s not flowing especially fast.
The National Water Information System reported the Colorado River at Dotsero was running at about 1,500 cubic feet per second today.
During the peak of the spring runoff it flows at about 9,000 cfs and last year reached its swiftest current at about 10,000 cfs on May 21.
Joey Bunch: 303-954-1174 or jbunch@denverpost.com
