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Echo Canyon Municipality - a process approved by state legislation that allows developers to self-incorporate a city on the floodplain of the Colorado River at Kings Bottom and Kane Creek

February 24, 2025
by John S. Weisheit

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Baseline River Elevations

  • 3949 feet - the Colorado River at the mouth of Moonflower Canyon in low water.
  • 3965 feet - the parking lot & public toilet at Moonflower Canyon trailhead.
  • 3968 feet - the maximum elevation of Kane Creek Boulvevard near the proposed construction site.
  • 3969 feet - the maximum elevation for the snowmelt of 1984.
  • 3977 feet - the maximum elevation for the snowmelt of 1921.
  • 3986 feet - the maximum elevation for the snowmelt of 1884.

What is Kings Bottom? It is an expansion bar of mobilized river cobbles and sand deposited by vigourous, velocity currents of the Colorado River at floodstage, Typically a warm rain on snow event falling on the snowpack of the Rocky Mountains in May/June. Extreme and random floods also occur during the hurricane season and the monsoon season (late summer/early fall). Dam failures upstream pose the greatest threat to safety, because a massive wave races through the river corridor. The wave will entrain everything within the river corridor, which includes trees, cars, and buildings. It is the debris that makes this flood extremely life threatening.

 

A chronology of baseline documents


The original proposal is campground development

The proposal is modigfied to become a high end residential and commercial development

The proposal is modified again to become an independent  municipality

 

The name for this municipality with no population or infrastructure shall be called "Echo Canyon."


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Contact the Designated Sponsor
  • Kane Creek Preservation and Development, LLC.
  • eMail for Craig Weston

 


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