Platte River & Tyler Pickett Park

A new understanding of what the town of Saratoga can do to the Platte River and finishing Tyler Pickett Park topped the matters Ed Glode talked to the Saratoga Sun about on Friday.

According to Glode the town has already inspected two main gravel bars in the North Platte River within town limits. One is near the Bridge Avenue bridge and the other is above the Highway 130 bridge.

Glode, town engineer Chuck Bartlett and Carbon County Emergency Management Coordinator John Zeiger went to Cheyenne last week and met with the Army Corps of Engineers to discuss permitting for removing the gravels bars...