Siloam Springs Kayak Park Update

[LarryT]

If you have not been to the park since the big rains it has changed. 80% of the bottom hole is filled with gravel. Their is a gravel beach and you can almost walk over the entire section. The eddy is gone. When the water drops most of the bottom section will be too low for a kayak. It is now a "recreation" park. Hopefully the city will clean it out.

[paddledog]

As a twenty plus year veteran of da ford, I can speak with some degree of accuracy.
The gravel bar was always there in what I call the PC days....(pre-construction)
After a large rain the gravel bar built up on river right, just below the wave.
After a few days of lower flows, the gravel bar eroded downstream.

As a one year veteran of The Siloam Springs Kayak Park I have no idea what the natural ebb and flow
will do per the build up of gravel and sediments.
There is a small budget in the city for cleanup and maintenance of the park.
However, before it is spent going in to replicate what nature might do for free,
let's give it a few weeks at low flow and see what happens.
I can say they are dedicated to keeping the park the best kayak park in the area.

There will be a period of maintenance this summer.
Work on the bottom wave will be performed, as to what else is to be done has yet to be determined.