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From YouTube: MAPS 3 Oklahoma River Improvements update: Aug. 3, 2015

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Program Manager David Todd updated the Oklahoma City Council Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2015, on the MAPS 3 Oklahoma River Improvements whitewater rafting and kayaking channel. Massive pumps will send water rushing down the concrete channel, providing a whitewater rafting experience minutes away from downtown Oklahoma City suitable for amateurs, families and professionals.

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The development at the Oklahoma River has changed the landscape of Oklahoma City momentum continues with maps 3, which includes river sport, Rapids a world-class whitewater facility that will anchor the existing river sport adventures in the boathouse district. This construction tour will highlight the major features and layout of the course we'll start at the west. Entrance to the left of the sky trail will be an extension of the sixth street parking lot, which will add more than 100 parking spaces.

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Here, you'll see rough grading for the reconstructed phillips avenue, which will be a drop-off lane and entrance gate for patriots.

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The facility's main building is on the right, which will house offices a pro shop, a restaurant and ticketing area. This is where your whitewater experience will start.

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Here's the west end of the bottom pool, which includes a stage funded by the rotary club of Oklahoma City. This area will host concerts and events with the nearby viewing area, including steps and terraces, allowing patrons access to the water's edge on the right. The rafting building structural steel is complete and work on the roof has begun here. You'll see the bottom pool, access ramp and raf docking area. This is where rafters will receive their equipment, go through orientation and board.

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Their rafts at this point, guided rafts will head east to the conveyor system, which will transport the rafters up to the top pool.

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The two-story structure on the left is the pump station, which will be capable of pumping nearly 500,000 gallons of water per minute, which could fill an olympic-sized swimming pool in 80 seconds.

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The area to the right of the pump station is the mechanical and treatment area. This area will be capable of recirculating filtering and treating the entire nine million gallon water volume in under 12 hours.

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Here we see the top pond, which is where the rafts will exit the conveyor when complete, it will be 21 feet higher in elevation than the bottom pool and will extend eastward to the kayak building. The kayak building extends another 44 feet to its peak, making it a prominent feature from I-35. As we turn back west, you see trucks driving on what will be 5th Street, which will eventually connect to Lincoln bulova.

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Here we see where the top pool will feed into the recreational channel on the right and the competition channel on the left. The area between the channels will be elevated in landscaped as an informal seating area for spectators to watch, rafting enjoy concerts from rotary point stage and other events on the left. You can again see the main building. The building elevations will be covered in matching white metal shingles. These finishes will also be used on the rafting and kayaking.

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This is the west end of the site, where the two channels connect at the end of the course from here rafters will paddle East, neither repeat the course or return the raft at the boathouse.

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This completes the construction site tour of river sport rapids for more information on this and other maps. Three projects visit okc, gov, / maps, three.