Update on construction projects in town
==4th Avenue Pedestrian Bridge – direction and design updates; retaining wall; caissons; concrete
==Black Bear Hole /and/ 2nd Avenue Trailhead – landscaping done, grading, restroom, and more
TWO RESCUES of tubers in LaVern Johnson Park June 12.
==12:40 p.m., two 10-year old children
==3:45 p.m. six adult tubers
==Sheriff warns of increased snow melt and near peak runoff levels.
Sitting at the happy place, bubbling St Vrain backyard confluence….great word, confluence – a coming together…. Stream of consciousness at the confluence…. Flow…. Unedited burbling words coming at me, conjures the saying ….“One cannot walk in the same river twice”
Bohn Park was focused on from 2015 to 2021. By following its process to recovery, one can see the extent of work that it took to get Lyons back on its feet, and shining again — 8 years later — and PHOTO SPREAD
Grand opening ceremony for the 2nd Avenue Bridge which was destroyed during the Great Flood of 2013. Before and after photos. List of speakers. Dedicated to James L. Blankenship, Town Engineer, who helped get it reconstructed properly.
Tubing Ban Enacted for St. Vrain River June 9 to 25, 2021. – details – Plus Report by Lyons Police Chief to the Town Board of Trustees 6/7/21
poem about the music, river, beauty of nature, concerts & songs, … music of the Planet // excerpt: Still there is hope… in the mountains, snow white, where the Wild things are, …pregnant with water, the offspring of clouds wrapped in their lily-white shawls… covering swollen rivers… waiting to be born.
Initially, Earth Day River Cleanup was scheduled by the Sustainable Futures Commission for Saturday, May 1, but after the tanker’s gasoline spill on Tuesday, many people expressed that they felt it was now even more important to gather as a community and clean up the river area. The volunteers were seen along the river corridor, and irrigation ditches.
Gasoline tanker spills some contents into St. Vrain River. (1) residents’ actions (2) Lyons Ecology Board Statement (3) Town of Lyons Statement. And links.
Fourth largest snow storm in Colorado’s history hit the Front Range Sunday, March 14th. See multiple photos of the area. by Hazel Smith.
