Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Seeks Public Review of the Environmental Assessment for Lees Ferry Road Rehabilitation and Paria River Bank Stabilization

The National Park Service is making available for public review and comment an environmental assessment for the rehabilitation of Lees Ferry Road and the stabilization of the Paria River Bridge. The environmental assessment evaluates two alternatives. Under the no action alternative, the road would not be rehabilitated and the bridge would not be protected. Glen Canyon National Recreation Area would continue routine road and bridge maintenance and minor repairs as it has in the past. The preferred alternative would include the rehabilitation of six miles of Lees Ferry Road within the park, the stabilization of bridge supports and adjacent river banks at the Paria River Bridge, and stabilization of sections of riverbank that are undermining the Lonely Dell Access Road.

The proposed project is being considered to address deficiencies in the width of the road, the surface condition of the road, damaged stormwater culverts, and other road safety concerns. Curve widening is proposed to enhance visitor and road safety on this popular road. Pullouts along Lees Ferry Road would be improved. Unofficial pullouts would either be removed or upgraded. Stormwater culverts have been damaged by years of use and would be repaired or replaced. Segments of the channel banks at Cathedral Wash and No Name Wash along Lees Ferry Road would be stabilized to protect the roadbed from present and future erosion by storm runoff.

The banks of the Paria River just upstream of the Lees Ferry Road bridge are eroding and endangering the safety and stability of the bridge. This erosion endangers the support abutments and piers of the bridge across the river as well as the adjacent Lonely Dell Access Road, which provides access to the Lonely Dell Ranch National Historic District. The proposed action would stabilize the river banks and would employ mitigation measures to minimize erosion near the bridge and along the west bank of the Paria River downstream of the Lonely Dell Access Road.

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Lees Ferry Road Rehabilitation and Paria River Bridge Stabilization Environmental Assessment   (5.1 MB, PDF file) Lees Ferry Road Rehabilitation and Paria River Bridge Stabilization EA Appendices A-B   (3.4 MB, PDF file) Lees Ferry Road Rehabilitation and Paria River Bridge Stabilization EA Appendix C BA   (4.5 MB, PDF file) Disclaimer: Links within the above document(s) were valid as of the date published. Note: Some of the files may be in PDF format and can be viewed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader software. You may download a free copy of from Adobe Systems.