Cedar Point Announces New Water Ride for 2010 Season

Of course, it will take a few weeks for T & T to fill it up with water with the garden hose once it's all done.

I was really hoping to watch the steel go 'vertical' this week (or one of the previous two weeks for that matter).

Speaking of which, we've got to be due for another shoot the rapids construction update on one of the coming blogs ;)

An update will probably be coming after the New Year, like around the 4th or 5th of January, since this is when most of Cedar Fair returns to work.

All I know is, I can't wait to ride! I love water rides and have been anticipating a new water ride for a while now.

Let's just hope it isn't as big of a soaker as TC and SRF!

I am enjoying watching the work in process! I can' t wait till it gets warm to hit the rides again! I miss them!

I miss it already too. My wife got me a Plat Pass for xmas and now i cannot wait till we do our yearly trip to CB and get our passes processed.

According to Tony and Tyler we should be seeing steel go up next week. The weather looks brutal to work in judging by the webcam.

Yea, it's been in the single digits here in michigan. I can only imagine how cold it is on lake erie right now.

Awesome, I'll have something to look forward to next week :)

It's rough to think that even though it's now 2010, we are still so far away from being able to ride this awesome ride...

We are supposed to be getting a lot better weather throughout the rest of the week, so hopefully we can start to see some serious elevation!

It looks like there is a huge hole over on MF Island...

It looks that way because there is. :)

With all the snow Northeast Ohio has been getting lately, I wouldn't be surprised if Shoot the Rapids is delayed on opening weekend, but being Cedar Point opens in May, not too many people ride water rides that early in the year anyway.

I'd be very surprised if they don't have it ready by opening day. Really, the bulk of the work seems to be in pouring concrete, much of which they've done already.

It looks to me that they have a fair amount of pouring to still do. Maybe I can't recognize it, but the MF island splash pool looks like it still needs to be poured. Then there is the ground level flumes and the "lakes" that the rendering showed them imbedded in. I assume those will be concrete lined to allow for the treated water. It would speed it up if they are using precast for the flumes.

Looking at these pics, you can see that the MF island splash-down has long since been completed. In fact, when those shots were taken - more than 1.5 months ago - the second splash-down (on the mainland) had just been poured, and they've made significant progress on that since. Thus, despite not being able to see it on the webcam, its reasonable to assume they've made more progress on MF island as well.

The sea-ment ponds should be comparatively quick, given how they've been pouring the other "base" concrete without using any rebar (a method that seems destined for problems in the distant future, IMO). Just get the terrain relatively close to the grade you want, dump a bunch of concrete on it, smooth it out and you're done. If you notice, 90% of the time & effort in pouring concrete is spent assembling forms and tying rebar together.

The flume channels will require some more effort, in that they're using rebar for the walls of those channels. But again, this process doesn't really take very long, once the "base" is poured.

And, again, it would absolutely NOT speed up the process if they used pre-cast flumes (nor would it be remotely logical, from an engineering/cost perspective).

We'll have an update on Shoot the Rapids sometime today, including new photos that I took a short time ago.

The focus right now is on "plumbing," so to speak. This includes electrical lines. We'll explain more on the blog.

Awesome! Can't wait.

It'll be nice to see and hear about some of the technical stuff going on.

Looks like the groundwork for the station has begun in earnest.

DJ - thanks for the reminder pics about that splash down on MF island being poured already. They definitely have been busy out there.

Why do you say that prefab flumes aren't a time saver or even logical? Wouldn't you be able to fab the flumes in parallel with the pond pouring rather than in series - thus saving time?