“You can call me the water guy.”
“This is 12 million gallons of municipal water we bought from the city,” said Philip Melton, the facility manager at Montgomery Whitewater.Montgomery's brand new whitewater rafting and kayaking park has 12 million gallons of water to move around. Philip Melton is there to make sure it all works.
“We only move the water once. On the opposite side of this building, there are five flight pumps, similar to what New Orleans uses to evacuate levees. We take the water from the bottom, pump it to the top, and let gravity do the rest,” Melton said.
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