The new waterpark includes lots of typical attractions found at other waterparks around the country. The park includes: A lazy river, gentle slides, childrens play area, and a few high speed thrill slides. The new waterpark would be along the Tiffany Springs Road and North Congress Avenue in Kansas City.

“This is a tremendous project, and it's great that Kansas City is building it in the Northland,” said Brian Nowotny, the county's parks and recreation director. “There has long been a need for something like this.”

The 2 million dollars funded for the new park is coming from sales taxes raised by the local branch. The comission has approximatley 1.7 million dollars currently, and hope to raise 2 million by the end of the month.

The comission supports the idea of the park. Brian Nowonty claims: “The city is behind this project,” he said. “They looked at systemwide needs, and saw there was a lot of area and a lot of population in Platte County, and that another facility like this did not exist in the Northland.”

Construction is set to begin this June, and the group has a set open date on Memorial Day of 2005. The commission and park builders have positive views about the overall project.

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