When a water park, a seasonal business, encounters a pipe failure within one of its water features, a quick and effective fix must be found immediately to ensure there are no prolonged business disruptions that cause lost revenue. Instead of paying more than double the money for a pipe replacement eyesore that would have caused attraction closures and overcrowding in other areas of the park, the customer chose Nu Flow’s nondestructive pipe lining solution and the failing splash pad was back to normal operations within a couple of days.

Project: Use the Nu Drain system to rehabilitate underground recycled water system.

Site: A splash pad inside Wild Water Kingdom, a water amusement park in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, that opened in 1986. The 100-acre park has many water attractions and slides, as well as several non-swimming activities.

System: A pressurized plastic pipe system that recycles water, feeding it to multiple locations of a splash pad (an area that has water features and sprinklers for children). The pipes’ diameters range from 6" to 14". The system is located 8 feet below the splash pad and concrete.

Problem: Sections of the plastic pipe had broken from normal wear and tear, which allowed rocks and sand to be sucked into the pumps through the jet fixtures of the sprinklers. This caused the sprinklers to release the rocks and brown water into the splash pad, so the park immediately closed the splash pad. The customer wanted a long-term fix without causing excavation within the park.

Circumvention: If the water park had chosen a traditional repipe, the project would have been much more time consuming and destructive. First, a large area above the pipes would have to be blocked off from customer access. Next, the concrete and at least part of the splash pad that lay above the leaking pipes would have to be jackhammered and removed. Eight feet of dirt would be dug up and removed, as well. The failing pipes would be replaced with brand new pipes that would inevitably encounter the same failures within a short period of time. Dirt and concrete would be trucked in and placed back on top of the pipes. Therefore, a repipe would have been extremely time-consuming and expensive for the customer, so it was not an optimal solution.

Solution: Nu Flow technicians used the patented Nu Drain system to rehabilitate the recycled water pipe system without causing any disruption to normal park operations. Using existing access points, a structural liner was installed into the pipe system, preventing the need for any destruction. This protective structural liner covers all breaches in pipe and will prevent sand and rocks from entering the pipe system in the future. Nu Flow’s technicians worked while the park was closed, so customers did not know that any work was being done. The project only took two days; actually taking longer than expected because of an unprecedentedly high amount of ground water infiltration in the failing pipes. Nu Flow’s innovative and eco-friendly pipe lining process, Nu Drain, provided this water park with a long-term, nondestructive and cost-effective solution for rehabilitating its failing pipe system, and got the splash pad back to normal operations within 48 hours.

This image shows where the 6" diameter pipe opens to the 14" diameter pipe, also revealing the rocks and sand that were sucked into the

pipe system.

Water Park’s Splash Pad Rehabilitated Within Two Days

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