- Price River
The Price River is a river in the state of
Utah , in theUnited States . The river originates in theWasatch Plateau in Central Utah and flows southeastward throughPrice Canyon , alongsideU.S. Route 6 , to the cities of Helper, then Price. The river flows along the northeastern edge of theSan Rafael Swell to theghost town of Woodside, where it proceeds to the east, joining theGreen River inGray Canyon after flowing a distance of 210 km.Range Creek is one of its tributaries.It is generally believed that the Price River was named after LDS Bishop William Price of
Goshen, Utah , who explored the region in 1869. The town of Price was later named after the river. [cite web | url = http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/p/PRICE.html | title = Utah History Encyclopedia: Price | publisher = University of Utah | accessmonthday = September 10 | accessyear = 2006]The
Scofield Reservoir was formed by the construction of theScofield Dam in1946 . There are plans to build a second dam on the river, upstream from the Scofield Dam, called theGooseberry Narrows Dam. The proposal has met with opposition out of concern for environmental impacts on trout fisheries in the Price River headwaters and the planned diversion of the water impounded by the dam out of the Colorado River basin to supplement the irrigation systems of the Sanpete Valley. [cite web | url = http://www.utahrivers.org/gooseberry.htm | title = Utah Rivers Council - Gooseberry Dam | publisher = Utah Rivers Council | accessmonthday = September 10 | accessyear = 2006] As a result of the planned dam the Price River was included on theAmerican Rivers list of the top ten endangered rivers in the United States in2005 . [cite web | url = http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_103115617.html | title = Utah's Price River "Most Endangered" | publisher = KUTV.com | accessmonthday = September 10 | accessyear = 2006]The Price is a small, shallow river and is normally unnavigable. However, during springtime flows, the 23.5 miles below the Scofield dam to Castle Gate contain Class I to V
whitewater . [cite web | url = http://southwestpaddler.com/docs/greenut9.html | title = Price River, Utah | publisher = southwestpaddler.com | accessmonthday = September 10 | accessyear = 2006] The river has become increasingly popular with canoeists and kayakers.External links
* [http://www.usbr.gov/dataweb/html/scofield.html U.S. Bureau of Reclamation - Scofield Dam project]
* [http://www.riverfacts.com/rivers/13322.html Price River Whitewater]References
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