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Creating Chemistry
For water parks and aquatic play features
By Connie Gibson Centrella
One of the fastest growing segments in the aquatics industry is water park developments that utilize aquatic play features. These are designed for play and recreation with shallower depths, high-moving water velocities, aerating pumps and special effects, such as sprays, misters and waterfalls. Although some may consider these swimming-pool environments, there are unique differences in the way in which the water quality is managed.
A New Breed
Water chemistry parameters in these facilities should depend not only on bather loads, but on environmental characteristics. Leisure-rivers channel water through a series of flumes--usually narrow--and in some instances through areas covered with foliage and trees. This plant life provides algae and phosphates, which can create poor clarity as well as moss, mold and mildew within the flumes.
Wave pools create some unique challenges due to the shallow water at the entry points. Because of the high bather load and shallow water depths, the challenges to the water chemistry are maintaining water clarity and continuous feeding of sanitizer to maintain a residual. The sunlight draws the chlorine gases out of the shallow depths at a greater speed than in traditional pool environments.
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