Due to numerous minor problems, Cypress Gardens Adventure Park will not open during the peak of summer season. Owner Kent Buescher hopes to have it open by October.

Many of the existing buildings required extra repairs or needed to be demolished and re-built. Maps of utility lines under the ground were incomplete and concrete is hard to come by, due to a shortage.

Buescher still hopes to open a waterpark that will be built into the existing amusement park in April of 2005.

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