Boaters on the Green River want some say about federal plans to repair a century-old dam damaged in high waters near Gunnison Valley two years ago. The Tusher diversion dam is the only man-made obstruction to boating on the Green River below Flaming Gorge Dam. The Natural Resources Conservation Service is doing a full Environmental Impact Statement before launching a $3.5 million construction project next summer, but hasn't decided whether the plans will allow for boat passage. Longtime river guide Richard Quist is among those pressing the NRCS to make the improvements boater friendly. Project manager Bronson Smart says the diversion's the only 1 of its kind in Utah, built in 1906 from cottonwood trees lashed together in a crib then filled with rocks.
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