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The future site of the Calypso water park in Limoges. (File photo by Etienne Ranger)

One of the city's newest water parks will open in the summer of 2010 instead of this coming season, officials said.

Following two months of construction delays last year, Calypso Park, located in the municipality of La Nation in Prescott-Russell, was originally slated to open August 2009. For a seasonal business like a water park, however, an August opening is "strategically unthinkable," said Village Vacance Valcartier president and CEO Guy Drouin in a statement. He added that the two-month delay built up over last summer is hard to make up and means that the official opening must be held up until next summer.

"We don't want to give vacationers a half-finished water park."

Several buildings have already been built and the site of the future water park already features a number of sliding structures as well as an "enormous concrete basin" that will be the wave pool. Mr. Drouin added that almost 50 per cent of the costs of the roughly $40-million project have already been invested.

Last November, officials constructing a new water park south of Barrhaven said they are pushing back the opening date of Alottawata Park back to 2010 from the original opening date of this summer.

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