The main reservoir release gate will increase from 70 cfs to 135 cfs at 11:00 am, and the fish hatchery will remain at 10 cfs today, Wednesday, July 17, 2024.
RRP: 135cfs +/- low flow fun at Sixx and surfable at Chiclets…. Benni’s needs 180cfs to 220cfs to even deserve being shaped. Sixx can be surfed at 125cfs (flows out of the dam that is).
Hey the gauge below Union is reading too high. Stick with the Chatfield gauge- https://dwr.state.co.us/Tools/StationsLite/PLACHACO?params=DISCHRG
Pueblo: 900cfs+/- Eric Thomas and Tony R. will be there today getting some good flow.
Scout: 750cfs+/- Lane was just on the cam this AM throwing buckets on an obviously fun wave.
Wave Pools: Seems like the construction of rapid wave pools, aka standing wave pools (similar to our green faced river waves) by the likes of City Wave, EpicSurf, and others are starting to outpace the extremely costly moving wave pools worldwide. The footprint and cost of a standing wave pool is at a fraction of a moving wave pool such as WaveGarden, SurfLoch, etc.
What about Denver? Don’t we deserve a wave pool? Yes, Denver should have a wave pool. And nope, we do not “deserve a wave pool”. Huh?
No place deserves a wave pool. That implies the surfers need one like we deserve a gas station, or grocery store. There is no place that needs a wave pool. But the investors and builders and persons running wave pools are foolish to by pass the Denver market for a wave pool.
Not that there is enough surfers in Denver to support a wave pool; BUT, we have an incredible tourist base to support a standing wave pool.
The Denver Post reported today, “Visit Denver, the city’s tourism sales and marketing agency, said last year’s visitor total of 37.4 million was a 3% bump over 2022. And the $10.3 billion in Denver’s tourism revenue last year outpaced the $9.4 billion collected the prior year by nearly 10%.”
All a “pipe dream” of getting at least a standing wave pool in Denver, though it makes sense…. Then again we surf river waves for free, well excluding taxpayer assisted funds, municipal bonds, and grants; but it is free to river surf in Colorado (Denver and elsewhere).
Go find some surf!
LBK
The Denver Surf Report 