London 2012 canoe / kayak slalom venue

London 2012 Olympic plans have been strengthened this week by the planning approval for the White Water Canoe Centre at Broxbourne. The Centre will be retained as a legacy sporting and leisure attraction following the Olympics.

The White Water Canoe Centre will be built by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire to host the canoe / kayak slalom events during the Olympic Games in 2012. After the Games, the venue will be developed to become a sporting and leisure facility for canoeing and white-water rafting, as well as a major competition venue for elite events. The Centre will be owned and managed by Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, and will sit alongside the existing centres of sporting excellence in the Lee Valley Regional Park.

The venue plans include:

- An international standard Canoe / Kayak Slalom Course – an Olympic standard 300m course, with a warm-up course and finish lake. A new artificial water body will be constructed and the white-water will be created through a system of pumps

- New parklands - the canoe course will be located within a wider parkland setting. The landscaping works will include path and bridge networks throughout the venue to facilitate spectator access and viewing

- A new facility building – containing a reception, café, changing rooms, shop, offices, spectator viewing facilities, equipment storage and water pump/filtration facilities

The construction of the venue includes: Creation of an Olympic standard 300m course, warm-up course and finish lake Placement and compaction of fill to form the course embankments and landscaped

features of the venue Construction of a new facility building, containing reception, café, changing rooms,

admin offices, spectator viewing facilities, storage, and water pump/filtration plant Landscaping Works with path and bridge networks throughout the venue to facilitate

spectator viewing and access

Cardiff County Council's exciting Olympic standard Canoe Slalom Centre

Cardiff, in partnership with the Welsh Assembly Government, is to develop a canoe slalom course here at CISV.

Costing an estimated £13.3 million, it will provide Wales with the UK's first olympic-standard pumped water canoe slalom course.

A centre of excellence, completed well in advance of the 2012 Olympic games, it will enable Cardiff to offer advance training facilities for UK athletes and competitors from visiting countries.

Using moveable barriers within the concrete framework to provide a range of standards

from recreational to full international and olympic-standard competition, it is expected to attract 50,000 elite canoeists and leisure users per year.

Preliminary designs from French company HydroStadium, creators of the courses for the Olympic Games at Sydney, Athens and Beijing, were developed by contractors Dean and Dyball.

Work started on site 29th September 2008 and completion is expected early in 2010.

http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/content.asp?Parent_Directory_id=2865&nav=2866,3386,4858,4863,5070

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Olympic standard Canoe Slalom Centre (Welsh olymoic stadium )

Olympic standard Canoe Slalom Centre -3D View

Olympic standard Canoe Slalom Centre

Pictures of the site under construction

Reinforcement steel and side shutters to slalom course base slab nearly ready for

concrete

A large section of the structural concrete to the slalom course is now complete

A section of the pump chamber wall showing the reinforcement steel, nearly

ready to be poured.

Welders extending the length of the tubular piles supporting the pump chamber, so they can hit the harder rock at a lower level than

anticipated

A closer view of the pump chamber. The high level tubular piles will support a

walkway and conveyor which will lift canoes to the top of the course

The creation of white water stadiums

White water stadiums are facilities which permit the practice of white water sports (canoe, kayak, white water swimming, rafting, tubbing, hot dog...) within an organized and secured frame. These projects go with the developpement of out-door sports in an urban environment. White water stadiums bring white water into city and are real attraction centres.

There are various manners to create a white water stadium according to the possibilities of the site. The site chosen for the construction of the olympic white water stadium in Athens reinforces in the extreme these remarks. Based in the centre of the city, the Greek stadium, built on the former international airport of Hellinikon is supplied by sea water which is pumped three kilometres upstream. So, each site has got its solutions. However, this stadium is not the image of classic white water stadiums, it is an exceptional construction.

Three parameters are required for the creation of a white water stadium :

Firstly, the available parcel must vary in between 6 000 square metres (white water stadium in Tournon Saint Martin) and 70 000 square metres (white water stadium in Athens) according to the ambition of the project.

Secondly, the water supply which can be natural by gravity, by stocking tide water, provided by a pumping system or both gravity and pumping.

Thirdly, the slope of a white water stadium is situated between 0.5% and 2.5%. For a 300 metres river, a difference in height of five metres will be suggested.

Each of these parameters can be find naturally on a site, or on the contrary can be create artificially:

If you have water and the right slope: it is possible to modify the river bed profile

either by taking off some rocks or by adding rocks.

If you have a slope but no water: create a pond downriver and bring up

water with pumps.

If you have water but no slope: use the difference in height created by a dam and build a branch river which

will spread the fall.

If you have neither water nor slope : do an earth-moving to create a little

colline and a pond downriver and bring up water with pumps.

If you have water but no slope: install a pumping station which will bring

water to the beginning of the course

If you are at the sea side: build a little dam in an estuary and stock the hight tide water. The storage will permit the good functioning of this tide providing white water stadium during low tide.

White water stadiums : GravityWhite water stadiums can have different water supply systems. The easiest is gravity as, in this case, the river supplies water to the white water stadium. A gate can be installed upstream the course in

order to regulate the river flow. e following white water courses have their water supply by gravity:

Nancy (FRA) Millau (FRA)

Ivrea (ITA) Nottingham (GBR)

Bania (GRE) Tournon (FRA)

The white water stadium of Bania (Greece)

The white water course of Bania has been built not only to attract tourists but also for the organisation of training sessions and canoe and kayak competitions. The course is partly equipped with mobile obstacles that are licensed by EDF.

The site after the modification Site before the project

Site during the modification The site after the modification

Characteristics of the Bania white water courseWater supply By gravity

Flow rate 7 to 15 m³/sLength 520 m Width 9.80 mDrop 1%

The white water stadium of Nancy

The town of Nancy decided to transform the site of the former slaughter houses and the mills into a landscape park.

In the heart of this park of 3.5 hectares, a white water stadium has been built in the spillway channel of the Meurthe River. A permanent lake pond and new offices destined to local canoe kayak clubs have been included in the project.

The white water stadium has also a social aim as everybody can benefit from a torrent in the town center. The width of the river varies in between 8 and 24 meters. Two gates have been installed upstream the discharge branch. The white water river consists of three basins providing various levels of difficulty that don't prevent the discharge branche to evacuate the flood. The flow rate of the white water stadium regulated by a third gate varies in between 3 and 12 m³/s. <

Characteristics of the Nancy white water

stadium Water supply By ravity

Flow rate 6 to 20 m³/s

Length 330 mWidth 8 to 24 mDrop 4.5 m

Difficulty level II à IV

Cost of the installation : 1,070,000 euros

Client: District of urban area of Nancy

Work done by EDF: Summary pre-project and pre-project studies, and Assistance to the client

Opening date: October 1997

The white water stadium of Millau (France)

When restructuring the Maladrerie site, located upstream of the well known Lerouge Bridge, the town of Millau decided to build a new channel not only to make the transit of the Tarn River easier but also to develop a white water stadium. This white water river with modular obstacles, located in the middle of the Maladrerie sport and leisure site, allows different levels of navigation and does not prevent the discharge branch from assuring the flood evacuation. A fish pass consisting of several successive basins has been placed next to the roof gate on the right river side. The fish migration is independant of the flow of the white water course.

Characteristics of the Millau white water course

Water supply By gravityFlow rate 4 to 16 m³/sLength 335 mWidth 8 to 20 mDrop 2 m

Difficulty Level II to III

Cost of the installation: 1,113,000 euros

Client: Town of Millau

Work done by EDF: Pre-project and Execution studies, Assistance during the tender, Assistance to the client during the work, Assistance for the reception of the work

Opening date: June 2000

The white water stadium of Tournon St MartinThe white water course of Tournon Saint Martin had to bring a leisure animation to a very large public in a touristic area. The town of Tournon Saint Martin is now a crossing for waterway paddling thanks to this equipment.

Based in the natural parc of Brenne (Indre), this equipment completes the tourist and sport attractions offered by the region. This white water stadium is supplied by gravity water and uses the mobile obstacles system. It is built in the former tailrace canal of a mill. which is now transformed into an accommodation center. A roof-gate allows natural water supply and in parallel, a fish pass consisting of successive basins solves the problem regarding fish migration.

Thanks to mobile obstacles this white water stadium can be used by novices, beginners or high level athletes. The white water stadium of Tournon Saint Martin can be submerged during the centenarian flood of the Creuse River.

Work done by EDF and Hydrostadium: Sketches, pre-project and project studies

Tender file

Assistance by the choice of the construction company

Characteristics of the Tournon St Martin white water stadium

Water supply By gravityFlow rate 4 to 10 m³/sLength 120 mWidth 8 to 14 mDrop 1.2 m

Difficulty Level II

Execution file

Construction follow-up

File of the realised construction work

The white water course of Nottingham (UK)The Nottingham white water course has been built more than 20 years ago. The BCU wishes to optimize the course by a better distribution of the difference in level and the installation of mobile obstacles. The first part of the river has been modified in the beginning of 2007, which gives an idea of the feasible improvements for the rest of the white water course.

Characteristics of the Nottingham white water course

Water supply By gravity

Client: British Canoe Union

Work done by Hydrostadium : Pre-project and project studies

Flow rate 5 to 28 m³/sLength 320 mWidth 6 to 18 mDrop 3 m

Difficulty Level II à III

Date de mise en service: en cours de projet

The white water stadium of Ivrea (Italy)At the request of the Ivrea Canoe and Kayak Club, Hydrostadium accepted an expertise mission in the beginning of 2007. The aim of this expertise was the optimization of the last third of the course with a view to the organization of the World Cup Sprinting in June 2007. The re-modeling of the end of the course makes it much more attractive. Moreover, the water level is higher and the final threshold with drop safer.

Characteristics of the Ivrea white water stadium

Water supply By gravityFlow rate 6 to 20 m³/sLength 220 mWidth 7 to 14 mDrop 7 m

Difficulty Level II à IV

Client: Ivrea Canoa Club

Work done by Hydrostadium : Summery pre-project and Execution studies

Opening date: April 2007

White water stadiums : Pumping system

In this case (pumping system), a pumping station supplies the white water stadium This permit to bring up water from the arrival to the departure. Flows of this type of white water stadiums are adjustables easily.

Sydney (Penrith, Australia)white water stadium

Athens (Greece) white water stadium

Beijing (China) white water stadium

Zoetermeer (Netherlands) white water stadium

Nanjing (China) white water stadium

Cergy Neuville (France) white water stadium

Markleeberg (Germany) white water stadium

The white water stadium of Athens (Greece)

Initially intended on the Marathon plain, the white water stadium of the 2004 Olympic Games was finally located on the site of the former Helliniko airport based in the centre of Athens.

The Athens white water stadium stands out from the ordinary, its innovation will blow your mind. The river is supplied by an artificial lake of 25,000 m² created especially for this occasion and which is filled with sea water thanks to a pumping station on the coast and a pipeline. The river is equipped with a pumping station of six pumps having a maximum discharge of 21 m3/s, two boat conveyors and the Omniflots mobile obstacles system, patented by EDF.

The design of the course is original. For the first time, the public discovered a white water stadium in a figure of 8. The white water course starts on a bridge that will then loop under itself. This original design was developed in tight collaboration with the Greek architect Mr Nikos Fintikakis from the firm Sunthesis Research in Athens, who was also the representative of the construction managers for this project.

The following photos were taken in February 2004 during the first official training sessions on the white water course. It is interesting to note the bright white color of the water, which is due to the use of sea water. Olympic discharge : 17.5 m3/s

The white water stadium of Beijing

Hydrostadium confirms its Olympic commitment with the white water stadium of Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games in China.

For this white water stadium, Hydrostadium planned a white water stadium with four different courses having each its own characteristics. The Olympic and the training course are the two main courses. A course with a surf wave and a combined course are planned too in order to satisfy all kind of users. The river will be completely modulared thanks to the Omniflots® system which will allow the redeployment of the Olympic basin in a leisure white water stadium.

The white water stadium of Sydney

Hydrostadium made the design of the course for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games

Through lack of a white water stadium, the organisation committee decided to cross of the kayak slalom race for the Olympic Games. Thanks to a persisting lobbying, this sport managed to gain its reintegration and Hydrostadium is very proud of having participated by providing its engineering. For this occasion, the most beautiful artificial white water stadium in the world was built. So the kayak and slalom ompetitions have be reintegrated into the programm and the French athlete Tony Estanguet became Olympic champion.

The course is based in Penrith, at 60 kilometres (37 miles) of Sydney. Penrith hosted the Olympic canoeing (slalom and sprint) and rowing events. The white water stadium uses the water from the lakes that fill former gravel pits. The water supply for the white water channel is provided by a pumping station. The U-shaped positions the finish near the starting line. A pumping station fitted with 6 pumps supplies the white water stadium with a maximum flow rate of 16.8 m³/sec. A boat conveyor provides users with an easy link between finishing and starting area without disembarking.

Thanks to mobile EDF obstacles, the Penrith course can host high level canoeing competitions or can be used for leisure activities. This ensures the profitability of the amenities. Thus, the white water stadium turned towards a commercial use, as a monthly turn-over of 100 000 Australian dollars (61 000 €) and allows a benefit of a quarter of this sum.

Characteristics of the Penrith white water

stadiumWater supply

Pumping station

flow rate 4 à 16.8 m³/sLength 320 mètres,

327 yards

Widthfrom 8 to 14

mètres,26 - 46 ft.

Drop 5,20 mètres, 17ft.

Difficulty Level II to IV

Cost of the installation :6,500,000 Australian $; 3,960,000 euros including operational buildings

Builder: Pacific Power International with the EDF assistance

Work done by EDF: Mobile obstacles supply

Opening date: March 1999

Main events: Pre-Olympic competitions in September 1999 and Olympic Games in September 2000.

White water stadium of Nanjing

China decided to entrust Hydrostadium with the creation of the white water stadium that would be used for the competitions organised during the 10th Republic Games of China. The white water course of Nankin or Nanjing, has a "U shape" like the course in Sydney. The river is totally modular thanks to the Omniflots® system that makes it possible to adapt the navigation level to all kind of users. The cascades river which is a succession of waterfalls representing mountain torrents is an ideal complement for the canyoning initiation.

Characteristics of the Nanjing white water course

Water supply Pumping systemFlow rate 8 to 16 m³/sLength 314 m

Minimum width 9 mDrop 4 m 70

Cost of the installation: 1.6 millions euros

Client: Nautical base of Nanjing

Work done by EDF: Project management

Opening date: End of 2004

The white water stadium of Cergy Neuville (FRA)

The white water stadium of Cergy Neuville aims at offering a general public leisure activities in the spirit of developing open-air sports in an urban area.

At that time, for the first time in France and the second in the world, a stadium is provided only by a pumping station equipped with 4 pumps and uses the mobile obstacles system. A boat conveyor for all types of boats (rafts, canoes,...) links the finishing area and the starting area and ensures a large confort for all users (film).

Based near the town of Cergy Pontoise, this stadium completed the equipment of the out-door leisure site (water ski, sailing...).

A pumping station of 4 pumps having each a capacity of 4 m³/s fills the river. Thanks to the mobile obstacle system, patented by EDF, the navigation level of the course can be adapted to users of all levels that is to say to beginners as well as to Olympic athletes. During the centenarian flood of the Oise River the course can be submerged without any problems. Une station de pompage équipée de 4 pompes de chacune permet l'alimentation en eau de la rivière d'eau vive. Grâce au système d'obstacles mobiles Brevet EDF, ce stade est adapté aux pratiquants de tout niveau, du débutant à l'athlète olympique. Un tapis roulant permet aux utilisateurs d'effectuer la liaison zone d'arrivée / zone de départ sans avoir à descendre de leur embarcation. Cet équipement peut être submergé lors d'une crue centennale de l'Oise.

Characteristics of the Cergy white water stadium

Cost of the installation: 2,927,000 euros

Water supply

Pumping system

Flow rate 4 to 16 m³/s

Length 250 mètres

Width 8 to 14 mètres

Drop3.50 to

4.90 mètres

Difficulty Level II to III

Work done by EDF : Scheme, pre-project and project phase, Tender file, Assistance during the tender, Construction, Execution file, Construction follow-up and verification of the executed work, File with the realized work.

Opening date:

September 2000

The white water stadium of MarkkleebergThere's a new white water course in Germany nearby the City of Leipzig

The City of Markkleeberg decided to build a white water course consisting of two rivers: one for competitions and one for training sessions. Moreover, both rivers can be used for leisure activities as completely equipped with mobile obstacles. Six pumpes connected to an artificial lake formed on a former mine ensure the necessary flow for the two courses. Two conveyor belts link the arrival area to the two starting basins. The construction was finished in 2006.

Characteristics of the competition river

Water supply Pumping stationFlow rate 19 m³/s

maximumLength 270 m

Minimum width 9.80 mDrop 5.30 m

Characteristics of the training course

Water supply Pumping stationFlow rate 13 m³/s maxLength 130 m

Minimum width 7 mDrop 1.90 m

White water stadiums : Gravity and pumping

Sometimes, it can occur that natural gravity water supply is not enough to operate the white water stadium. In this case, we add another type of water supply, a pumping station in order to fill this lack of water.

Saint Laurent Blangywhite water stadium

Cesson-Sévignéwhite water stadium

White water stadium : Cesson The white water stadium of Cesson-Sévigné, located in the middle of the town, has managed its integration in urban surroundings and is respectful of the environment.

For the part of the stadium located in the flood evacuation branch, it uses the natural flow of the Vilaine River. To assure the use of the river during low flood and to lengthen the white water course, a pumping station has been installed. An automate operates the installation and the three weirs of the mobile dam. These installations needed before a human intervention. Equipped with mobile obstacles, this stadium can be adapted to all levels, from beginners to high levels athletes. The athletes of Rennes use the stadium daily.

Cost of installation : 1 037 000 euros

Client : Town of Cesson-Sévigné

Prestation EDF : Etude de faisabilité, Avant Projet, Projet, Dossier de Consultation des Entreprises, Assistance Marché Travaux, Assistance Maîtrise d'ouvrage pendant le chantier

Contrôle des travaux : DDE Rennes

Opening date : June 1999

Characteristics of the Cesson-Sévigné white water stadium

Water supply Gravity + Pumping system

Flow rate 3 to 12 m/sLength 130 metres with the gravity, 300

metres with pumping stationWidth 10 metresDrop from 1,53 to 2,20 metres

Difficulty level II

White water stadium : St Laurent Blangy

The building of the white water stadium in Saint Laurent Blangy is primarily a rehabilitation model of a former industrial site. The town council developed an ambitious project with an urban and social aspect : to create a torrent in the town centre and to facilitate the access to white water to school children, to prisoners near release, to general public...

In addition to the natural flow of the Scarpe river, the course in Saint Laurent Blangy is the first French stadium (and also the second of the world after the olympic course of Seo Urgel in Spain) to use a 9 cubic metres per second pumping station to bring water to the beginning of the river. This assures an optimal flow and a large navigation comfort.

La rivière artificielle a été creusée à travers une île formée entre l'écluse de la Scarpe canalisée et son bras de décharge. Une station de pompage de 9 m³/s vient avantageusement compléter l'alimentation gravitaire de la rivière, et permet ainsi d'assurer l'alimentation en eau du stade d'eau vive quel que soit le débit naturel de la Scarpe, en remontant l'eau au départ du parcours.

Thanks to OMNIFLOTS mobile obstacles, this stadium can be adapted to all levels, from beginners to high level athletes.

Characteristics of the Saint Laurent Blangy Cost of installation : 1 296 000 euros

white water stadiumWater supply Gravity + Pumping system

Flow rate 3 to 12 m³/sLength 200 metres with the gravity, 300

metres with pumping stationWidth 12 mDrop from 3,50 to 4,90 metres

Difficulty level II to III

environ

Client : Ville de Saint Laurent Blangy (dépt. du Pas de Calais)

Prestation EDF : Avant Projet Sommaire, Dossier de Consultation des Entreprises, Assistance Marché Travaux, Suivi de chantier

Opening date : September 1996

White water bargeThe white water barge is a boat with an artificial white water river on which all kinds of white water activities can be practised. Water from the channel, port or river will be pumped directly into the white water barge.

The white water barge could navigate on all the European channels for huge models. It could also move along the coast or across the Channel but only by calm weather. As the white water barge won't be mechanized, it will be manoeuvred on the channels and rivers with the help of a tug. Whereas it will be towed during its displacements along the coast or its crossing form Calais to Dover.

Thanks to the displacement possibilities of the white water barge it can be berthed in numerous French and European Cities. With the white water barge a private or a government organization could organize an event and offer white water activities without having to face the problems generally encountered during white water projects such as the availibility of land and water.

The white water barge offers various white water activities. These activities will meet with the expectations of promoters and/or the companies developing outdoor activies like rafting.

Criteria for the organisation of an event :

Moving of the barge: the displacements of the white water barge, that is to say its departure or berth will be spectacular.

Rafting: from 60 till 90 participants an hour.

Demonstrations: various kayak freestyle, border kayak and inflatable canoe.

High level competitions: slalom, sprinting or freestyle.

participation, social integration and education: rafting for all on the course, participation of disabled sportsmen and the explanation of safety instructions in a natural environment.

COMPATIBILITY WITH SUSTAINED DEVELOPMENT :The use of the white water barge will strongly increase the value of river transport. Moreover, the message of the project is to make it possible for a very large public to discover sportive activities that were until now only practised by a privileged few. The same message based on the social expansion of users is used to promote white water courses in an urban area.

Regarding white water courses the enthusiasm of the public is real and these courses are very popular, especially when one of the aims is social integration.

Layout of Charles Giai-Gischia / Agence Christophe

The white water bargeTechnical characteristics of the white water barge

Total length 135 meters: which means that the white water will have a length of 100 meters

Total width 11.40 meters: which means that the wide water will have a width of 8 meters

Flow rate 7m3/s: the pumping station will have 2 pumps (the total power will be approximately 450 KW)

Initial drop 1.4%: the slope can vary in relation to the longitudinal ballasts of the barge

Flow depth 1.5 metersDifficulty Level II to IV

Equipment of the barge :

A conveyor-belt so that the users can go back to the beginning of the course without disembarking.

Lights for late-night navigation.

A footbridge to get on board.

A transportable electric cabinet equipped with a transformer for the supply of 1000 KVa.

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Holme Pierrepont – Proposed upgrade to White Water Course.IntroductionIt is proposed that over this coming winter upgrade works will be carried out to the Holme Pierrepont (HPP) White Water Course (WWC). These works will be to and in the water channel and will alter some of the current water features. It is planned for the work to be completed by the end of February 2009. This upgrade work is being managed by a “Design Group” consisting of the BCU (Facilities and Performance), Sport England (SE) the proposed funders, Nottinghamshire County Council (NCC), and HPP Centre Management. Two engineering consulting firms have been appointed, EPD Ltd to look into and prepare an “In channel” design and Patrick Parsons to look into the civil engineering aspects and to prepare drawings for tender.

Prior to the current “Design group” being formed a French Company, Hydrostadium were asked by the BCU to produce initial suggestions. These suggestions for various reasons were not taken further by the BCU. In May 2008 a consultation meeting confirmed that these initial ideas were not to be pursued but a drawing remained in circulation.This drawing of the rejected proposal was recently placed on various web sites which has created a great deal of concern, fear and comment about the upgrade proposals.

Pictures of proposed upgrade at Holme Pierrepont Nottingham.Top picture is the current course.

Australia Course Map - Heats

Course Map - Semi Finals and Finals 

 

 

about the venue

 Penrith Whitewater Stadium was the competition venue for the canoe/kayak slalom events during the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Located only an hour from Sydney, it is the only man-made whitewater course of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.The construction of the Stadium was a joint venture between Penrith City Council, the International Canoe Federation and the Olympic Co-ordination Authority.Penrith Whitewater is available year round for whitewater rafting, kayaking, beach volleyball and guided venue tours, all of which may be arranged by prior booking.

course specifications

The course has been constructed using a combination of both natural and man-made materials to recreate the characteristics of a natural whitewater river. Water is drawn from the nearby warm-up lake by six 300kw submersible pumps. Each pump delivers 2,800 litres (2.8 cubic metres) of water per second to the start pool at the top of the course, from where it flows down to the finish pool.The river flows at 14 cubic metres of water per second or 5 pumps. The channel itself is concrete and varies in width from 8 metres to 14 metres. It is 320 metres long, drops 5.5 metres top to bottom and is constructed in a “U” shape. A moveable obstacle system makes it possible to change the whitewater.A conveyor carries rafts, canoes and kayaks along with their occupants from the bottom of the course to the top.

Slalom kayaking at Penrith Whitewater Olympic Slalom Canoeist

Heads up! Here comes another wave! Whitewater rafting at Penrith Whitewater

Reffrences

http://www.bcu.org.uk/clubs-i-centres/

Canoe Slalom

Cardiff, in partnership with the Welsh Assembly Government, is to develop a canoe slalom course at CISV.

http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/content.asp?Parent_Directory_id=2865&nav=2866,3386,4858,4863,5070

London 2012 canoe / kayak slalom venue gets planning green light

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=10428

Contractor announced for London 2012 canoe slalom venue.The London Olympic Delivery Authority Press Office on +44 (0)203 2012 700 or visit the website at www.london2012.com.

Venue images

http://www.london2012.com/news/image-library/venue-images/index.php

Holme Pierrepont

Holme Pierrepont Nottingham England

You will find, on this web site, hopefully by Monday, a number of new documents, including:- A non-technical summary of the proposals. Drawing of the proposal

A report from Scott Shipley of S2O

Please download this information and bring your questions and comments to the meeting.

Contacts

Missions and competenceshttp://www.hydrostadium.com/Version_anglaise/accueil.php

HYDROSTADIUM proposes the fitting-out of white water courses and the creation of white water stadiums. The fitting-out consists in reprofiling existing rivers ( in urbans and rural environments). As play areas, the creation is an urban and leisure concept of artificial white water rivers (use of EDF mobile obstacles).

HYDROSTADIUM can assist you in developing or carrying out your project through a range of different missions :

Technical feasibility studies Assistance to Client

Project management (complete or partly)

Expertises

Improvement of existing equipement

Marketing and commercial studies

Gilles BERNARD (on the right)General Manager of HYDROSTADIUMThree times Canoe World Champion (downriver). During ten years, Gilles developed white water stadium within EDF team.

Pascal SIMON (on the left)Technic managerPascal is descended from the EDF team originally to the development of the product "white water course engineering"

The McLaughlin Whitewater Design Group brings decades of hydraulics and outdoor recreation leadership and expertise to the design and development of whitewater venues, led by the principals from our parent company, now McLaughlin Water Engineers, Ltd. Our tradition of innovation and excellence is founded on not only meeting project criteria, but by exceeding performance expectations after the project has been completed.

CONTACT US

The McLaughlin Whitewater Design Group is based in Denver, Colorado. Inquiries should be directed to the Denver office where they will be routed to the appropriate individual.

McLaughlin Whitewater Design Group 2300 15th Street, Suite 220Denver, Colorado 80202T 303.964.3333F 303.964-3355

Rick McLaughlinPrincipale-mail: rick@mclaughlinwhitewater.com

Risa ShimodaBusiness Developmente-mail: risa@mclaughlinwhitewater.com

 

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