Spring 2010
Course structures complete.
Summer 2010
Slalom courses running and facility building complete.
Lake complete and filled.
Autumn 2010
Slalom courses commissioned and external landscaping complete.
Spring 2011
Centre opens to the public.
Summer 2012
Centre closes to the public for olympic games.
Spring 2013
Centre reopens to the public.
The construction is well under way and great progress has been made. The works are well on schedule with the piling works finishing before schedule. The foundations of the building are complete. and the new year looks good for the New White Water Centre. with this year being the year that the centre is due to be completed and ready to be open to the public in spring 2011.
last year there was 150,000 cubic metres of soil required to build up the 5.5m start pull walls, and to build the lake. There is now more then 500 piles now ready for the construction of the building this month.
The lake is due to be completed during the summer of 2010. It is planned to be concrete based with concreted sandbags forming the banks and walls.
The 300m Olympic course is also taking shape alone the western side of the centre. the earthworks are due to finish on the Olympic course early this year ready for concreting and the Olympic course is due to be completed in the summer of 2010.
The 160m intermediate course is also on schedule and earthworks are due to finish in the next few months ready for concreting and completion in the summer of 2010.
Broxbourne white water canoe centre is on course to be open for public use in spring of 2011. The ground works are well under way and the foundations of the building have been completed. BWWCC will be the only brand new olympic venue to be open to the public before the olympic games in 2012. They have worked to make it not only the most depanding course in the world but the best training base for white water aswell.
Theres a new information site at YHA Lee Valley which is around 20 minite walk away from the site. this is a drop in centre and has loads of information about the new site.
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