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by Ben Rodda
Fri Jul 22, 2016 7:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Pulp mill lower Caddo east of Amity AR
Replies: 46
Views: 9707

Re: Pulp mill lower Caddo east of Amity AR

Yarbrough, Carbon offsets are one of many ways to compensate forest owners for their investments and the benefits from their forests. The rest of your comment seems inappropriate for a project that will change the future of Arkansas. I don’t understand what you are trying to say. Please post your op...
by Ben Rodda
Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:52 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New Kayak Park in Siloam Springs
Replies: 1
Views: 825

Re: New Kayak Park in Siloam Springs

I filled out the survey....

Dang the location looks like it has all kinds of fantastic potential!!!
by Ben Rodda
Wed Feb 17, 2016 10:17 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Have you guys seen this innovative play spot
Replies: 1
Views: 866

Have you guys seen this innovative play spot

Hey Folks, I follow Peter Czonka on Facebook and see this play spot often in his posts. Its a channel with a low volume flow. The locals have tuned the flow in such a way to create a very dynamic play spot. https://www.facebook.com/petercsonkakayak/videos/1028891487134156/ I just wonder if there is ...
by Ben Rodda
Mon Feb 01, 2016 10:20 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Fayetteville Kayak Park
Replies: 13
Views: 3940

Re: Fayetteville Kayak Park

The fact of life is that the dam at Pump Springs Rd. is going to come out. It is old and failing. If the stream bed is going to be restored, why not restore it in a way that when the flows are correct WW waves are created. From what I see the location rarely has a flow greater than 300 CFS. And hau...
by Ben Rodda
Thu Jan 28, 2016 10:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Fayetteville Kayak Park
Replies: 13
Views: 3940

Re: Fayetteville Kayak Park

Hey Folks, I think that many people should be curious about this topic. I took a look at the site and it seems to me that the best gauge I could find for this river is located is here; http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/inventory/?site_no=07048550" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;...
by Ben Rodda
Thu Oct 01, 2015 2:53 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Any chance we could get one of these?
Replies: 1
Views: 575

Any chance we could get one of these?

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It just looks like so much fun to me!!!
by Ben Rodda
Thu Dec 19, 2013 10:03 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Progress on Fisher's Ford Park - OPEN
Replies: 161
Views: 41078

Re: Progress on Fisher's Ford Park

I am not so sure about "well worded". Perhaps more like rambling and barely coherent! Anyway I am really happy to hear that there will be some tuning later. Like I said I dont want be to premature in my comments. At the same time I dont want to regret not having said them either. I would j...
by Ben Rodda
Wed Dec 18, 2013 8:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Progress on Fisher's Ford Park - OPEN
Replies: 161
Views: 41078

Re: Progress on Fisher's Ford Park

Thanks so much for posting pictures.... So in your opinion does this represent the final product? Its always tough to tell from photos and water levels and so on but this looks super.... Boring. I may get flamed for saying that and it maybe premature. But since the engineers are on hand with the equ...
by Ben Rodda
Sat Oct 19, 2013 9:22 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Progress on Fisher's Ford Park - OPEN
Replies: 161
Views: 41078

Re: Progress on Fisher's Ford Park

Thanks so much for the photos and update! A twenty foot wide play wave does not sound like it will be very dynamic unless there is a significant amount of water. Are we sure they cant concentrate that flow some? Honestly I would prefer a feature that is 6 feet wide and is retentive than a 20 foot wi...
by Ben Rodda
Thu Oct 17, 2013 2:57 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Progress on Fisher's Ford Park - OPEN
Replies: 161
Views: 41078

Re: Progress on Fisher's Ford Park

Thanks so much for posting the panoramic photos!!! Super cool!
by Ben Rodda
Tue Oct 15, 2013 5:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Progress on Fisher's Ford Park - OPEN
Replies: 161
Views: 41078

Re: Progress on Fisher's Ford Park

How are things looking so far?

Have they started moving rocks around in the riverbed?
by Ben Rodda
Tue Oct 01, 2013 11:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Progress on Fisher's Ford Park - OPEN
Replies: 161
Views: 41078

Re: Progress on Fisher's Ford Park

So fired up over the sense of optimism and the hard work that is put in. I agree the fast pace is more than likely a really good thing. The nature of my post really is not to rain on that at all. Only to run ahead and make sure the potential for failure is mitigated as fully as possible. Keep up the...
by Ben Rodda
Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Progress on Fisher's Ford Park - OPEN
Replies: 161
Views: 41078

Re: Progress on Fisher's Ford Park

My experience with REP that the quality of the features will depend largely on who the project manager is. Mike Harvey is awesome and is mostly responsible for all of the great features in the Arkansas Valley. However when REP did work on a feature in Lawson on Clear Creek that it was a massive deba...
by Ben Rodda
Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:53 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Beaver Dam CFS Info
Replies: 3
Views: 547

Re: Beaver Dam CFS Info

Eric, Thanks so much for posting a response. I would like to look back and get a feel for what are the average various flows coming out of Beaver dam. Yesterday it appears that it it was at 20 CFS and then went up to 3,500 CFS. Apparently it can go up to 8,000 CFS. I would like to know how long thes...
by Ben Rodda
Thu Oct 04, 2012 12:11 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Beaver Dam CFS Info
Replies: 3
Views: 547

Beaver Dam CFS Info

Does anybody know of a good source to find out what the CFS values are on an hourly basis for Beaver Dam? I cant find a guage on the USGS site. And it seems like just about every other form of date for Beaver Dam is reported except for CFS.

What do you folks think?

Thanks!