Completion Form

2021

Phase V of the Helper River Revitalization Project has been completed and now approximately 2 miles of the Price River is open to fish passage upstream and human passage downstream through Helper City. The Price River is now connected longitudinally from the Carbon Canal to the proposed Phase VI project for approximately 5.3 miles. Once the Phase VI project is completed, there will be an additional 0.6 miles of longitudinal connection with only one partial barrier remaining all the way up to Scofield Reservoir. The UDWR released Colorado River Cutthroat Trout into the Helper Reach in 2017 and many of these fish were observed during fish surveys conducted in 2019. Locals and visitors routinely fish and float the river and work is underway to design, permit and implement Phase VI. After Phase VI is completed, there will be other opportunities to improve the river and riparian habitat, but the major fish barriers will be removed from this reach.

A late invoice from Helper City required that the project be carried over into FY21.  All work was completed in FY20.

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