Palisades wants whitewater kayak park.

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Palisades would like to offer its own whitewater kayak park on the Colorado River. Town Administrator Tim Sarmo has been working on the $1 million project for several years and now has the money raised and wants to begin construction.

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The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is building a fish passage project upstream from town, and Sarmo wanted to build next to that, but the $2 million cost prevented it. He's found another nearby river bend that would be perfect and has submitted an application to the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers to...