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Whitewater Hall of Fame pool getting deeper, maybe broader
The International Whitewater Hall of Fame has an- nounced the names of 18 nominees in the running to become part of the second class of paddlers in- ducted into the hall. As previously reported in Rapid (V8, I2) the new hall of fame and museum, the home of which is currently being constructed in Maryland, has expanded its nomination process in the hopes of including a paddler from outside the U.S. A 45-mem- ber voting panel is currently voting on the 18 nomi- nees, three of which are from countries outside the U.S. The six inductees will be announced in August.
Kipawa spigot closed Construction crews replacing the Laniel dam on the Kipawa River in Quebec came up with an effective way to prevent paddlers from running the dam while it is under construction. After a number of paddlers, and one riverboarder, snuck under a fence spanning the river and ran the left gate of the dam, the con- struction workers guarding the site dropped enough logs in the control gate to stop the flow. Though the decreased flow didn’t affect the majority of paddlers who were already well downriver on the second day of the 20th annual Kipawa River Rally, it was the latest escalation in a long-running dispute that has now moved into the courts. The Friends of the Kipawa River are challenging the legality of the new unrunnable, bottom-release dam by appealing to the Navigable Waters Act and citing a history of safe recreational running of the dam.
David Ford fitted for 23rd Team Canada jacket
Slalom kayaker David Ford has qualified for Canada’s national team for the 23rd consecutive year by handily winning the team trials in Slovakia. The Edmonton pad- dler has consistently been the top Canadian in the K1 class over the span of his career and will be wearing the familiar team colours at the World Cup races and the World Championships in August. Ford is joined on the team by first-timer John Hastings of Ottawa, who was in diapers when Ford first made the team.
Time’s up After 11 years of political wrangling up and down South Carolina’s Chattooga River, American Whitewa- ter (AW), a non-profit whitewater advocacy group has called in the attorneys. AW claims the U.S. Forest Ser- vice’s 30-year-old ban on paddling the uppermost 34 kilometres of the remote river in the southern Appala- chians is breaking the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and the Wilderness Act and so they are taking the govern- ment agency to court. Both of these acts support the public’s right to paddle rivers in protected wilderness areas. The Forest Service won’t say what the reason for the ban is, just that they are “studying the issue.”
E V E N T S Sept 1–3
2006 WORLD CUP FREE- STYLE CHAMPIONSHIPS Garburator, Ottawa River, ON
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2006 WORLD CUP FREE- STYLE CHAMPIONSHIPS Watertown, NY
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Sept 9–10 RAPID’S GULL RIVER OPEN CANOE SLALOM Minden, ON
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Sept 22–24 AW GAULEY RIVER FESTIVAL
Summersville, WV
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