DUBLIN — The $43 million aquatic park, the Wave, built during one of the state’s worst droughts, is ready to be unveiled to the public.

City officials held a ribbon-cutting Friday evening for the 31,000-square-foot facility, offering the first peek at the much-anticipated facility at Emerald Glen Park that can accommodate 1,400 people. The public grand opening is May 27.

The timing of the water park, which will use about 480,000 gallons of water to fill its multiple pools, slides and splashy playground, gathered the attention of many while California experienced one of its worst droughts.

At the height of the drought, which prompted Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a state emergency, Dublin residents flooded City Hall with requests to nix or scale back the project, which was approved in February 2015.

But this isn’t your typical community public pool, said architect Gregor Markel, who designed the city-funded project.

“It’s a facility that you can come back to over and over again, and experience something different each time,” he said. “There’s definitely a wow factor to it.”

The facility will have amusement park-style slides including the “Dublin Screamer” that sends bathing-suit-clad participants through a trap door and dropped into a wet vertical slide.

The Wave will feature six water slides, including one recently dubbed the “Shamrock Swirl,” where users go through several twists and turns before ending in a bowl of water.

Other slides, which were all part of a citywide slide-naming competition, include the “Emerald Plunge,” the “Golden Wave,” “Riptide Rider,” and the “Mt. Diablue”.

It will also have three pools, a water playground and a 2,000-seat outdoor performing arts center. Swim and exercise classes will be offered year-round. One indoor pool, the 160,000-gallon Natatorium, will have a roof much like a giant skylight to help reduce evaporation.

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Admission to the Wave will be a little cheaper for Dublin residents: full-day admission is $15 for residents who are taller than 40 inches (3.33 feet) and $17 for non-residents; afternoon admission from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. will be $13 for residents, and $15 for non-residents. Dublin residents will be required to show identification for proof of residency.

The facility, expected to employ nearly 200 seasonal employees, will operate in the red in its first year, according to the city. It will cost about $2.5 million to operate it, while revenue is expected to be $1.5 million, said Lori Taylor, the city’s economic development director.

After its grand opening on Memorial Day weekend, the water park will be open daily from June 3 to Aug. 13 and then weekends only during Aug. 19 through Sept. 24.

The water park will also have several parking lots, with more than 500 stalls accessible from Central Parkway and Gleason Drive, plus on-street parking.