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Midway Image Gallery

Aerial photographs before the project

Images of work during the project

Images of complete sections of the project (winter 2002)

Post Flood 2005

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Aerial and horizontal images of the Midway Project

Aerial photo of the Midway Project
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During the Midway Project
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Willows waiting to be planted Cutting a new meandering channel looking downstream Project coordination
Installing rock vanes Installing toe bank rocks Bank revetment before it is covered with cobble
Cutting the new channel looking upstream Installing toe rocks Turning water into a new channel
Overlooking a new meander

 

Completed sections of the Midway Project
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meander with new willows and rock vane A J-hook rock vane from above Rock vanes, willows and boulder clusters in a new meandering channel
J-hook pool at high water New river bend Future Wetland
New meander New wetland A J-hook rock vane and boulder clusters looking upstream
Wetland A new wetland (backwater channel) Another new wetland
Overlook in May, 2002

 

Post Flood 2005
The river reached almost 8000 cubic feet per second (cfs) this spring
Cut bank (upstream of Midway Project)
 Sediment deposited from flooding
A giant tree lodged in the river bank on Cowger's corner An old Oxbow lake served as a "pressure release"
Cut bank (upstream of Midway)

 

 

Contact NFRIA at:

122 A. East Bridge Street
PO Box 682
Hotchkiss, CO 81419
phone: (970) 872-4614
fax: (970) 872-4621

 
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