New WW Park

[Adam Willard]

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[Minna Ulmer]

Awsome!

[CAPTAIN ALEVE]

To the ACC members who are working on the Malvern whitewater park, here is the funding source information for this REP designed site, quoted from the Iowa newspaper "The Gazette" found using the link provided on the Ameican Whitewater website:

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“This is a critical week, and I will sleep a lot better at the end it, knowing that the bulk of the in-stream work has been completed,” said project engineer Gary Lacy of Recreational Engineering and Planning of Boulder, Colo.

Lacy said the Charles City site compares favorably with those of almost all the approximately 80 whitewater course his company has designed since 1983.

“In all honesty, the two key ingredients — the gradient and the flow — are almost ideal, and I have been very impressed with the quality of the Cedar’s water. It’s going to be one of the best we’ve done,” Lacy said.

The project — which includes the installation of 10,200 tons of limestone, much of it in large blocks — has been paid for entirely with grants and donations, Brownlow said.

Grants totaling $571,000 were provided by the Iowa Great Places program, and grants totaling $378,000 were provided by the Department of Natural Resources, he said.

Forty red granite boulders, each weighing about 15,000 pounds and costing $590 apiece, will be strategically placed along the course to deflect the current in desired directions, said Tracy Meise, the city’s on-site project supervisor.

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I'll bet 15,000 pound boulders would stay put in the Oucahita River, too. The Malvern quarry is full of such boulders. Looks like Iowa government agencies were the source of the funding. That would be a good place to start your fundraising here in Arkansas if you haven't already. Looks like a million was all that was needed in Iowa.

Captain Aleve, alias Mike Coogan

[BMuu]

Looks pretty bad a**! I had no idea there were boaters in Iowa

1 mil isnt bad either considering Dallas spent around 4!

[MaxTexan]

There was/is one very good kayaker in IOwa, Max Wellhouse. Prior to moving from AR to Iowa I had Max as an instructor at canoe school.. Max had at least two points: 1) prefect practice makes perfect; 2) every action has a reaction.

[CAPTAIN ALEVE]

Anybody know what the source of funding was for the Dallas WW park?

Captain Aleve, alias Mike Coogan