STEAMBOAT — springs Concerns are rising that fall’s repairs to the Charlie’s Hole kayaking feature are not playing out well as river flows increase, creating a situation that could affect upcoming boating events in a season with high expectations from record-setting snowpack.
“It’s obviously a bit compromised,” Peter Van De Carr said Tuesday about the recirculating wave commonly called the C-Hole on the Yampa River at Bud Werner Memorial Library in Steamboat Springs. “Unfortunately, feature-building is not an exact science.”
Van De Carr is a board member of the river advocacy group Friends of the Yampa.
The city spent about $27,000, including a $1,000 donation from Friends of the Yampa, for work on the C-Hole in November. The work was designed to restore the placement of boulders that help shape the whitewater feature and had shifted during strong flows in spring 2010.
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