I believe it's the silt buildup on the warm creak side. It's more of a sand bar on the way out of the cut on warm creek side, a ways out of the cut before it starts dropping off.
Castle Rock Cut Filling - 2023
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Rivergoer
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It’s two feet deep at the middle of the Cut today. Six days from now (July 2) it’ll be at least chest deep. The only issue might be two houseboats meeting at the narrowest section. But it will be manageable if everyone is patient and considerate.
SeaLegs
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The high point of the cut is no where near the 2 ends. Why is that so hard for everyone here to comprehend.
WaterMan
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Also the cut was only blasted to 3580, they would need to blast to go deeper.
WaterMan
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The bottom is flat having been meticulously graded after the material was moved.'
Its a long walk to get from the Wahweap shoreline to the construction deepening in the middle of the Cut. There is a coffer dam protecting the construction from rising water.
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No one said it was the high point on the ends. But if you go deeper you will effectively have to go longer especially on the warm creek side because of all the silt buildup.
lakepowellnut
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I think most everyone agrees that there is a high point that’s beyond the two ends, but the army corps of engineers manages this kind of stuff all the time. Unfortunately, the window of opportunity is gone for the time being. Moving dirt and rock is the easy part, it’s getting the money and will to do it from the politicians and bureaucrats that is the difficulty part.
Marina Bum
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It's sketchy when it's shallow like that. Someone posted photo's a few weeks ago of large rocks that had landed near the edges. I know that all of us launching and house boating out of Wahweap here are eager to avoid the Maytag Straights but for me I work to hard and plan to long all year to get houseboat trips together to tear off my drive and be towed home in defeat or worse ruining everyone's trip just to save an hour.
To me the key is to leave very early to go up lake, the straight are a lot less choppy with less traffic. I'm writing this from the bow of my houseboat right now in Wahweap Marina, it's 5:44 am. There is not a single boat of any type yet running on the lake nor has any type of houseboat pulled out of the marina, it's dead quite.
As for me I'm going to wait until there is some headroom of depth in the cut and I see others doing it without a problem. Damaging your houseboat this time of year can end your entire season, shops are backed up and boat parts are still hard to get. "If it's going to happen it's going to happen out there" Kurt Russell as Captain Ron.
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rjmronster
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A view from above to no one's surprise. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data from 2023 and is processed by Sentinel Hub.
BrianID
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All the people who love Lake Mead think the same thing about water release from Lake Powell. The only difference is Powell has been releasing significantly more water the last couple months than any of us would have predicted a year ago.
baldboater
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But Lake Powell is way better than Lake Mead, so.... haha
POk3s
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The same could be said for flaming gorge
baldboater
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But Lake Powell is way better than Lake Mead, so.... haha.
Flaming Gorge is pretty awesome, so they'd have a point. But like BrianID said above,Lake Powell is releasing much more than usual, Flaming Gorge isn't. A couple more winters like this last one and we won't even need to have these conversations!The same could be said for flaming gorge
KYKevin
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But the Large mouth will really like it
nzaugg
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Perhaps someone could have a really exciting July 4 firework display.
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