Construction on Carbondale's Super Splash Park Outdoor Aquatic Center will be underway soon.
Carbondale Park District Executive Director Kathy Renfro says the Illinois Department of Public Health has signed off on the park's final plans. She says constructing will begin first on the bath house and pump house and then add in the pool's features. The Super Splash Park is scheduled to open in May 2015.
Renfrow says the success, so far, of the park's capital campaign shows how much the water park means to the community. The Park District's capital campaign has raised nearly $600,000 in local funds to help match a $2,500,000 federal grant through the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
The Super Splash Park includes a competition pool, lazy river, and a kids play pool.
More information about the water park is available on line at www.cpkd.org/supersplashpark/donate.html.
