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For the past eight years, the much-anticipated Alottawata Ottawa waterpark in the city’s south end has been nothing more than a faded sign in an empty field, but that’s about to change, according to the park owner.

ProSlide Technology Inc., a designer of waterpark attractions around the world and owner of Cantley’s Mont Cascades, has been busy acquiring land around the 100 acres it already owns at the corner of Bankfield Road and Brophy Drive, filing new site plan approvals to the City of Ottawa and meeting with city councillors from that area as the company begins to turn its focus back to opening Alottawata Ottawa in time for summer 2019.

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In short, the project is finally moving ahead.

“I’m doing it. This is going to happen,” said Rick Hunter, founder of ProSlide.

“We don’t want this to go on for ever and ever.”

The original plan for 10 water rides on the site, now about 150 acres in size, has been downsized somewhat in order to get the park open for visitors quickly.