Colorado Parks and Wildlife recently made repairs on facilities to assist boaters at Navajo State Park.

The park maintains a grid of 29 mooring balls in the Mooring Cove area of Navajo Reservoir. Over the years, the cables and connectors have deteriorated. A CPW contractor completed a $139,000 project Oct. 16 to replace the cables and to repair the mooring balls and shackle pins that connect the balls to the cables. The balls were also spaced properly to assure boats will not bump into each other when the wind comes up or when the reservoir’s water level fluctuates.

The mooring area will open again to boaters next spring.

The contractor also conducted an underwater inspection of the cables that secure the park’s breakwater structure located at the entrance to the marina area.